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)
■ Transforming text
A preset transform shape can be applied to text.
1. Select the text.
2. Select the Transform check box, and then
click the transformation shape button.
→ Depending on the selected shape, a
dotted line and or appear
around the text.
3. Drag to transform the text.
To return the transformed text to its original
shape, clear the Transform check box.
Character
Spacing
Sets the spacing
between all characters.
0.0 mm
2.0 mm
Line
Spacing
Sets the spacing
between lines as a per-
centage of the character
height.
100%
150%
Alignment
Aligns several lines of text
to the left, center or right.
Left
Center
Right
Direction
Specifies whether
characters will be
positioned horizontally
or vertically.
Horizontal
Ver tical
b Memo:
• Vertical text will be displayed vertically on
the Design Page.
•Both
Kerning
and
Character Spacing
set
the spacing between characters.
Character
Spacing
is always applied to the entire text
pattern, while
Kerning
can be applied to
individual characters. Applying
Kerning
to
the entire text in the pattern is the same as
specifying
Character Spacing
. Refer to
“Selecting characters” on page 85 for more
details about selecting individual characters
in a text pattern.
b Memo:
Small text cannot be transformed.
a Note:
A text pattern created from a TrueType font
contains data for both line and region
sewing. Therefore, if this command is
selected, depending on the form of the
TrueType font, there may be a gap between
the line and the region in the text.
b Memo:
• can only be dragged vertically.
• can only be dragged horizontally.
b Memo:
• Text can be arranged on an arc if or
is selected.
• The settings specified in the
Text Attribute
Setting
dialog box are applied to all text patterns
that you create, until the settings are changed.