Brother PE-DESIGN V7 - Manual (Page 263)

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Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)
c
“Creating a New Pattern” on page 258,
“Overwriting” on page 272 and “Saving
with a new name” on page 272
Opening an image in the
background
You can open a background image that can be used
as a guide to draw a new fill/stamp and motif stitch
pattern. The file name extension must be one of the
following: Windows bitmap (.bmp), Exif (.tif, .jpg),
ZsoftPCX (.pcx), Windows Meta File (.wmf),
Portable Network Graphics (.png), Encapsulated
PostScript (.eps), Kodak PhotoCD (.pcd), FlashPix
(.fpx), JPEG2000 (.j2k).
1.
Click File, then Template Open.
→ An Open template file dialog box similar
to the one shown below appears.
2.
Select the drive, the folder and the desired file.
3.
Click Open to open the file.
→ The image fills the work area.
b
Memo:
• To save the work area, click Yes.
• To abandon the work area, click No.
• To return to the work area, for example, to
modify it or save it with another file name,
click Cancel.
b
Memo:
If the Preview check box is selected, the
contents of the selected file will appear in the
Preview box.
b
Memo:
• Double-clicking the file name also opens
the file and closes the dialog box.
• To quit the operation, click Cancel.
• To display, hide, or display a faded copy of
the image that remains in the work area,
click Display, then Template, and then
click the desired display setting.
• To display the template image, click On
(100%).
• To display a faded copy of the image,
click the desired density (75%, 50% or
25%).
• To hide the template image, click Off.
a
Note:
• With .pcd and .fpx files containing many
pages, only the first page can be opened.
Tiff files with LZW compression cannot be
opened.
• Only one image can be added to the work
area. If you try to display a different image,
it will replace the previous one.