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)
Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Selecting characters
The font, character size, thread color, sew type and
other attributes can be changed for each character
that is selected.
1. Click , then .
2. Click the text or small text.
→ The points in the text appear as small
empty squares.
3. To select a single character, click the point for
the character.
To select multiple characters, hold down the
key and click each point for the other
characters, or drag the pointer over the points
of characters.
→ The points for the selected characters
appear as a small black squares.
→ The handles appear on the character.
→ The Sewing Attributes bar appears.
1 Rotation handle
2 Size handle
3 Vertical offset handle
Easy changes to the character
size and attributes
You can easily use drag operations to change the
size and text attributes (character spacing, vertical
offset, rotation) for text, small text, and monogram
characters.
■ Changing the size
1. Bring the pointer onto the upper right
handle.
2. Drag the handle.
→ The size of the character outline
displayed with dotted lines changes.
3. When you release the mouse button, the
character size is changed.
→ The new size is displayed on the Sewing
Attributes bar.
b Memo:
• Multiple points can be selected and the
selected points can be changed in the same
way that embroidery pattern points are
selected.
c
“Selecting points” on page 56.
• With TrueType fonts, the outline can be set
to be sewn or not, and settings can be
selected for the color and sew type.
Ctrl
2
1
3
b Memo:
The character size of small text can be
increased. However the stitching will become
coarse.










