Chapter 9: Lettering Palette; Creating A Text Shape; Adjusting The Parameters - Brother BES-100E Workbook

Embroidery software

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The

palette contains various tools for creating a large selection of text arrangements that can be added

Lettering

to the design. Compared with the preset text shapes available with the

palette offer more layout ﬂexibility, by allowing the length, height, angle and location to be speciﬁed.

Creating a text shape

To create a text shape and add it to the design:

Click the desired tool in the

moved into the design area.

NOTE: To view a description of a

appears in the left corner of the status bar.

Click the location in the design area where you wish to add the text shape. A small circle with an X in it

appears.

Follow the instructions that appear in the left corner of the status bar to "punch" (i.e., click) within the

design area and specify various text shape parameters, such as the baseline width, the height and the

degree of arching. The instructions that appear differ depending on the

After the parameters are speciﬁed, the

NOTE: For greater precision, drag the pointer (instead of clicking in the design area) until the desired

measurement appears in the left corner of the status bar.

To ﬁnish creating the text shape at any time without specifying the remaining parameters, right-

click in the design area. If parameters are not speciﬁed, the default settings are used.

In the

box, type the desired text.

Text

NOTE: If the

Simple Text

entered. For more information, see Entering multiple lines of text in chapter 1.

Select the desired settings, such as the font or needle (thread) color.

NOTE: To maintain the proportions of the characters (i.e., to prevent distortion when the characters are

adjusted to ﬁt both the baseline width and the text height), select the

box. A check mark will appear.

Click the

button.

Adjusting the parameters

To adjust the various text shape parameters, such as the baseline width, the height and the degree of arch-

ing:

Using the

Reshape

The punchpoint changes to light blue.

Drag the selected punchpoint until the text shape has the desired shape.

NOTE: The punchpoints of text shapes that have not been converted to deformed text can only be used

to move the shape or adjust its parameters, but not deform it (i.e., change its shape). For more

information about deforming a text shape, see chapter 17.