Brother PE-DESIGN Ver.432 - Manual (Page 5)

Addendum to PE-Design II CD Book
Chapter 1 – True Type Fonts
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Step 2 – Type the first half of the text
Click in the design page area; the Edit text box pops up. Remember: you want this text to be
real big, bigger than your machine can sew in one part – that means that your machine
needs two separate design-parts, so first thing to do is to digitize the text in two parts. In this
example the text is “Amsterdam”. Type the first half of the text: AMSTE, click OK. In the
status bar (lower part of your screen) you will see the stitch generation process – the True
Type Font is being transformed into stitches at this moment.
Step 3 – Type the second half of the text
Click in the design page area, next to the first part of the text and type the second half of the
text in the Edit Text box. Note: the first half was 5 characters, and the second half is only 4.
Normally this is no problem, but when applying two combined text transform effects it is
better to have two objects of the same size. Therefore, press the spacebar 3 times, to make
up for the extra character, and type RDAM. Click OK.
Step 4 – Move, line-up and resize the two parts
To do this, use some of the other new features in Version 3:
Activate the Selection tool and select one of the objects. Use the
arrow keys of your keyboard to move the object and align it to the
other part.
With both objects selected together, choose Edit > Numerical
Setting > Size. Click the radio button in front of the inch or mm
size and type the desired value in the box at the right (make sure
that a check mark is placed in the aspect-box to resize the objects
proportionally). Click Preview to see if the size you entered fits the