Creating Monograms; Text Frames - An Overview - Brother BES Lettering Instruction Manual

Creating Monograms

Monogram Text items are created with the Monogram Text
tool. When you create a Monogram text item, it is three letters
long by default (but this can be changed on the properties
panel). Decorations can be added to Monogram items for those
fonts that support them.
To create standard Monogram text:
1 On the Ribbon, select the Home tab.
2 On the Text bar, click on the Monogram
3 Click once in the design window.
If another text item was already selected, your first click only de-
selected that item. You will have to click again to place a new
text segment.
A monogram text frame appears in the workspace, and the
mouse pointer changes to an arrow with the letter A next to it
.
4 Type the three letters of your monogram into the frame.
5 In the Monogram area of the Properties Panel, select the font
you wish to use in the in the Font field.
6 Click the Apply button at the bottom of the properties panel.
You can also make any other changes to the settings the
Properties box.

Text Frames - an Overview

In Pacesetter BES Lettering, you can modify your lettering in a
number of different ways once you have created it. You can
change the overall size of the text, the height, the slant, the
spacing between letters (kerning), and so on.
There are two main methods of changing the size and shape of
a text segment: directly, by clicking and dragging on the outline
handles in the workspace, or indirectly, by changing the
parameters in the Text section of the Properties Panel. The
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frame tool.