Lettering

Select Font

Depending on the level of your program, you will have up to 220 keyboard fonts in your system. These fonts will vary from monogram styles to multi color fonts.

Additional Fonts can be purchased from www.embmarketplace.com

Fonts can also be created from True Type fonts if you have the Hyper Font option.

Professional Elite level can can edit the installed fonts and digitize new fonts from images as well.

All fonts installed with your system are digitized to provide maximum quality within a specified range. When selecting any font, a recommended size and density range will be displayed. Use these values as a guideline when selecting your font style to achieve the best possible quality.

Recipes

Edit Lettering

This mode will convert text that is filled with stitches back to wire frame mode.

This only becomes active in Block Edit mode and a letter must be selected in order to make this icon active.

Character Edit

Select Block Edit mode
Click on any letter in the text you want to return to wire frame
Click the Character Edit icon from the top toolbar
The text will be returned to wire frame

This feature us useful for changing text, spelling, font etc.. The text will return to the size, shape and placement it was when originally created. If you move, resize or otherwise change the text after the stitches are built, these changes will be lost when it is returned to the wire frame mode.

Stitch It

This icon will cause the current block to fill with stitches. Depending on the setting in the System Parameters - Advanced Tab. The Block will either build immediately, or prompt you to input the stitch angle, entry and exit points

Font Profiles

Font profiles are used to save specific properties with a font style for quick recall.

Suppose you use a specific font at a certain height and embroidery settings.

You can save this as a Font Profile. Then the next time you need to utilize those same settings, you can simply select that font profile.

Create a normal text file in the size, frame, letter space and recipe of your choosing
Set the embroidery settings for density, stitch type etc.. for optimal results
Click the Font Profile icon
In the Font Profile window, give your new profile a descriptive name
Click Save

The profile will then be saved to your system. You can then re-select at any time by either selecting the Font Profile icon again and clicking Load, or selecting the saved font profile from the Font List.

Select Frame

Lettering Frames are used to arrange the letters into shapes like arcs, lines bridges and more.

The Lettering Frames are discussed in Detail in the Frames Section

Reset Frame

This option will reset the selected frame back to the factory default. This is useful if you have adjusted many controls and have the frame in a state where the text is distorted too much.

This function is also used while in Advanced Charcter Mode as an Undo function.

Text Window
Re-Opens the text input window to allow you to input or change the current text.

Select Font

The Font List allows you to browse the fonts from an image catalog instead of the name drop down list. This is better for people who know what the they want to use looks like and are not sure of the font name.

The Font List contains preview images for the fonts which contain useful information for the selected font. Information such as recommended density, size, special characters etc.. are contained in the Font Preview.

Font List

This Window can be resized by clicking and dragging the lower right corner of the window.

New TT Font

The System can create a new keyboard from a True Type or Open compatible font. These fonts are installed as part of your Windows system, through the Windows Control Panel.
True Type fonts are suitable for general embroidery, however, most will not work well at extremely small or large sizes.

This is an optional feature on some levels of the program.
If your system has this option, you should see "New TT Font" at the first line in the Font List

Please See the Creating a True Type Font Tutorial for specific instructions on using this feature.

Font per line

The system is able to create multiple font styles on different lines. These fonts can be any of the other like constructed fonts.

For instance, if you are using a multi-line frame and have more than one line of text, click the Fonts/Style Line icon to show the multiple lines.

Note

Compatible Font styles are those of the same recipe and number of layers. For instance, you cannot have a 2 color font on line 1 and a single color font on line 2. Or, you cannot have a running stitch font on line 1 and a normal fill font on line 2..

Text Apearance

Letter Height

Letter Spacing

Choose from the drop down list the desired letter height and spacing. If the desired value is not listed, type in the number and press Enter on the keyboard to set.

Use this chart to cross reference common fractions to metric or decimal values

Fractions

Decimal

Metric

If using inch mode, and the letter height is less than 1 inch, you must type in the letter height as 0.XX.

Example: Letter height of 1/4 inch would be input as 0.25 not simply .25

3/16

0.1875

1/4

0.25

3/8

0.375

1/2

0.5

127

5/8

0.625

159

3/4

0.75

191

7/8

0.875

222

1.000

254

Width / Rotation

Allows you to set a specific width (metric or inch) and /or angle of rotation for the line of text. This is a useful tool for deciding which font to use when trying to achieve a certain width.

It is always better to try to find a font that is as close to your desired with at its natural size than to force a font to fit your requirements.

Bold

Causes the letter to appear thicker or thinner depending on the Bold Setting. The Bold factor is set in the Lettering Tab of the System Parameters.

Italic

Italic will slant the letters by a specific percentage. The percentage of italic is pre-set and cannot be changed. This feature allows you to Italicize letters in the Single Line frames which do not support a Free italic control.

To achieve more or less italic, use the Free Italic control in the Multi-Line frames .

Justify Left

Justify Center

Justify Right

Paragraph Formatting controls can align multiple lines of text left - center - or right. These controls apply only when multiple lines are used in any of the blue Multi-Line frames.

Justify Left	Justify Center	Justify Right

Character Outline Mode
Character Outline Mode has 2 modes of operation. In the first mode it is used to manipulate individual letters. In this mode, the letters can be moved, resized or rotated individually. Select Character Outline Mode Click any Letter. The Letter will be displayed with its own wire frame Click and drag the letter anywhere on the canvas Use the wire frame handles to rotate, resize or stretch the letter Click Character Outline Mode again to exit and return to normal mode
In the second mode, Character Outline Mode can be used to adjust letter and word spacing. When a letter is clicked, the displayed wire frame has a single control in the center of the frame. If this control is selected the letter will only move in the side to side position thereby maintaining its position on the baseline. The left mouse button must be held down during the movement of the letter. Release the left mouse button when the letter is positioned where you would like it. When this control is used, any letters after the letter being moved, will move with this letter. This is especially useful when moving a single letter inside of a long string of text. In this way, you only need move the one letter and all other letters in the string will move an equal distance. If you move the letter without using this control, all other letters will remain and the moved letter will no longer contain this control.
	The Reset Frame icon can be used as a type of Undo in Character Outline mode. If you position a letter incorrectly and wan to move it back. Press this icon one time to replace the letter. This Undo can only go back one step in the process.

Advanced Character Edit

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