Brother 8 - Manual (Page 3)

Turn your favourite illustrations
and photos into embroidery. With enhanced font functions!
Enjoy the great power of expression.
Quick & Easy automatic conversion
PE-DESIGN automatically turns images into embroidery designs with any stitch you desire to choose.
35 built-in font
Select fonts that meet your own taste.
(You can also automatically convert true type fonts,giving you a virtually unlimited range of fonts.)
Layout & Editing
Cross Stitch
PE-DESIGN supports all these image file formats:
*.bmp, *.tif, *.jpg, *.pcx, *.wmf, *.png, *.eps, *.pcd, *.fpx, *.j2k, *.gif
PE-DESIGN automatically adjusts the brightness and contrast,and shows you several
examples of the different brightness and contrast levels. All you have to do is select the
best one!
Small fonts of 3 mm to 6 mm
Enjoy stitching small yet beautiful
fonts.
Monogramming function
Create various decorative monogramming patterns by just selecting a
font, inputting characters, and selecting the decorative patterns.
Font creator
Use “Font creator” to create your original fonts
Create fonts that meet your own taste.
The created fonts can be recalled
to be used in Layout & Editing.
Auto Punch
Edit cross-stitches and back stitches
By using cross-stitch function, embroidery
patterns can be created with more
variations
Photo Stitch
Grey Image size and position
can be changed
Change Size
Creates punch data automatically
from TrueType font
Text transformation
2 new transformation patterns are added
1 click to
arrange the text
in an arc!
Edit multi byte characters
Includes Chinese letters, Korean letters etc…
Sepia
Grey
Regions can be converted to lines
Line
Image file
Converted to
embroidery data
Sepia
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