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Importing a graphics file – Brother PT-9200 User Manual

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On a Macintosh computer:

1 Select the [Auto Format] command in the [File] menu to display the

Auto Format dialog box.

2 In the “Category:” list box, select the category containing the template

that you wish to use. For this example, let’s select “shop”.

3 In the “Template:” list box, select the template that you wish to use.

Let’s select the one named shop3.lbl.

4 Click the OK button. A new layout containing the selected pre-

formatted text is created and the Auto Text dialog box is displayed.

5 Click the Next or the Previous buttons until the text that you wish to

change appears in the “Input:” edit box. Here, the first line of text that
we wish to change, “CAMERA”, is already displayed.

6 Change the text so that the desired text is entered. We can start by

changing the product name to “VCR”.

7 Repeat steps 5 and 6 until all of the text is entered in the way that

you want, and then click the Next button. Let’s finish editing the text
by changing the original price to “$415.” and the sale price to “$215.”

8 Click the Close button. The text in the layout is replaced by the newly

entered text.

Importing a graphics file

With the P-touch Editor application, you can also import images files in a variety of formats (.bmp, .dib, .jpg, .tif, .ico, and
.wmf on the PC or PICT, JPEG, TIFF and BMP on the Mac) into your layout.

1 With a layout document displayed, select the [Image] command in the [Insert] menu (in the PC software) or the

[Object] menu (in the Mac software). A dialog box that allows you to select the image file appears.

When using the P-touch Editor for the PC:

When using the P-touch Editor for the Mac:

2 Select the graphic file that you wish to add to the layout and double-click

it. The image appears in the layout.

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