Brother PE-DESIGN 8 - Manual (Page 221)

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Manually Creating Custom Font
With Font Creator, custom font characters that can be used in Layout & Editing can be created and edited.
Using these custom characters, original embroidery patterns can be created.
Step 1 Opening a background
image
In order to create the custom font, we will open an
image in the background. For this example, we
will use the provided background image to create
a pattern for the letter “T”.
Click , then select All Programs, then PE-
DESIGN 8, then Tools, then Font Creator.
Click File, then
Template Open, then from
File.
Import the Capital_T.bmp.
Select the file Capital_T.bmp by clicking the
documents folder (My documents), then PE-
DESIGN8, then Sample, then Font Creator,
then Font Template.
Move the character so that the top aligns with
the Capital Line. To adjust the height of the
character, drag a handle to adjust the height
between the Capital Line and the Base Line.
Step 1 Opening a background image
Step 2 Creating a font character pattern
Step 3 Creating other font character patterns
Step 4 Save the font character pattern
Step 5 Creating an embroidery pattern using the created font characters
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The Base Line, Capital Line and Set Lines,
which appear as red lines in the sample
bitmap, have been added as guidelines so the
background image can be positioned more
easily.
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Capital Line
Handles
Base Line