Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- PE-DESIGN8 Instruction Manual
- Turn Any Design Into Original Embroidery With PE-DESIGN
- What You Can Do With PE-DESIGN
- Sew Types
- Basic Operation Map
- New Features of Version 8
- Table of Contents
- How To Use Manuals
- Support/Service
- Tutorial
- Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
- Layout & Editing Window
- Opening/Importing Embroidery Designs
- Checking Embroidery Patterns
- Editing Embroidery Designs
- Reshaping Embroidery Patterns
- Editing a Stitch Pattern
- Specifying the Design Page Size and Color
- Changing Application Settings
- Drawing Shapes
- Manually Creating Professional-Level Embroidery Patterns (Manual Punching)
- Adding Text
- Entering Monograms
- Applying Sewing Attributes to Lines and Regions
- Editing Regions
- Checking and Editing the Sewing Order/ Lock
- Importing Image Data
- Changing the Image Settings
- Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Pattern (Image to Stitch Wizard)
- Saving and Printing
- Basic Design Center Operations
- Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center)
- About the Instruction Manual (PDF Format)
- Tutorial (Advanced)
- Managing Embroidery Design Files (Design Database)
- Design Database Window
- Starting Up Design Database
- Checking Embroidery Designs
- Opening Embroidery Designs
- Organizing Embroidery Designs
- Searching for an Embroidery Design
- Converting Embroidery Design Files to Different Formats
- Writing Embroidery Design Files to an Original Card
- Outputting a Catalog of Embroidery Designs
- Basic Programmable Stitch Creator Operations
- Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)
- Opening a Pattern File
- Creating a New Pattern
- Viewing the Pattern While Creating It
- Creating a Pattern in Fill/Stamp Mode
- Editing a Pattern in Fill/Stamp Mode
- Creating Embossing/Engraving Effects in Fill/Stamp Mode
- Creating a Pattern in Motif Mode
- Editing a Pattern in Motif Mode
- Saving Patterns
- Changing the Settings
- Basic Font Creator Operations
- Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)
- Tips and Techniques
- Menus/Tools
- Troubleshooting
- Index
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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Adding Text
Entering text/Small text
1. Click on the Tool Box.
→ Three buttons appear: .
2. Click or .
: Text
: Small text
→ The Sewing Attributes bar appears.
3. If necessary, change the font, text size, color
and sew type.
4. Click in the Design Page.
→ The Edit Text Letters dialog box
appears, containing a chart with all
characters available with the selected
font.
5. Type the text.
6. Click OK.
→ The text is displayed in the Design Page.
b Memo:
• You can change the font, text size, color,
and sew type either before or after creating
the text.
c
“Font” on page 81, “Text Size” on
page 83, “Color” on page 95 and
“Sew type” on page 96.
• You can also use the settings in the
Text
Attribute Setting
dialog box to define other
attributes of the text.
c
“Specifying text attributes” on
page 83.
• You can also use the settings in the
Sewing
Attribute Setting
dialog box to define other
attributes for text.
c
“Specifying sewing attributes” on
page 96.
a Note:
• If one of the fonts provided with this
application (01 to 35) or custom fonts is
selected, the line sew type cannot be
selected.
• A sew type cannot be selected for small
text.
b Memo:
• Press the key to enter a new line of
text.
• You can also enter a character by selecting
it in the character table, then clicking
Insert
,
or simply by double-clicking it. This is
particularly useful if you have to enter
accented characters that are not available
on your keyboard.
b Memo:
• If you want to edit the entered text, select
it, and then select the menu command
Text – Edit Letters. Edit the text in the
Edit Text Letters dialog box that
appears.
c
“Editing entered text” on page 83.
• The Small Text tool is used to create text
patterns where the jump stitches between
the characters do not need to be cut.
a Note:
• If the entered characters are not available
with the selected font or if the text cannot
be converted to an embroidery pattern, an
error message appears. Click
OK
to close
the message and return to the
Edit Text
Letters
dialog box, where you can correct
the text.
Enter