Brother Pe Design 7 Manual

Personal Embroidery Design Software SystemVer.7
Instruction Manual 

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Table of Contents
How to Use This Manual ............................. 1
Screen configuration...................................... 1
Operation buttons .......................................... 1
How to use Support menus ........................... 1
How to use Menu areas/Main text areas ....... 2
Printing .......................................................... 3
How to use the Search function..................... 3
Displaying related Web pages ....................... 3
Features...

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Managing Embroidery designs 
(Design Database) .......................................... 61
Step1 Checking embroidery design files  ... 61
Step2 Opening an embroidery design file 
in Layout & Editing ........................... 63
Case1 Printing a catalog of embroidery 
designs ............................................ 63
Case2 Searching for an embroidery 
design............................................... 64
Entering Monograms (Layout & Editing) ......... 66
Step1 Creating...

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Converting text to outline pattern............... 138
Entering Small Text ................................... 139
Entering Monograms..................................... 140
Editing monograms.................................... 141
Applying and Editing Stamps ........................ 144
Applying a stamp ....................................... 144
Editing a stamp .......................................... 145
Applying Sewing Attributes to Lines and 
Regions...

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Editing the Points of a Font Character 
Pattern .......................................................... 248
Moving points ............................................ 248
Inserting points .......................................... 248
Deleting points ........................................... 249
Editing points ............................................. 249
Checking the Created Font Patterns............. 250
Checking and editing the sewing order ..... 250
Previewing the...

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Manually Creating Custom Font 
(Font Creator) ............................................... 296
Step1 Preparing a background image  ..... 296
Step2 Opening a background image ........ 296
Step3 Creating a font character pattern ... 298
Step4 Creating other font character 
patterns .......................................... 301
Step5 Creating an embroidery pattern 
using the created font characters ... 305
Creating Custom Stitch Patterns 
(Programmable Stitch Creator)...

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How to Use This Manual
Screen configuration
This manual consists of four elements, A (Operation buttons), B (Support menus), C (Menu area), and D (Main 
text area). To change the size of the text, click Text Size on the View menu.
Operation buttons
You can switch the screen, print text, etc. by clicking 
the appropriate button.
Displays the Instruction Manual top screen.
Returns the display to the screen displayed 
immediately before.
After you have gone back to a previous 
page, this displays again...

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How to Use This Manual
You can check the software support 
service information and support pages 
on the Web.
Displays a site map for this manual.
How to use Menu areas/
Main text areas

Menu area operations
Here, select the item you want to read.
You can open a title in the menu area that has   to 
its left side by clicking that title. The mark to the left 
of the title changes to  .
To close an opened title, click it again.
A title with no levels under it has no triangular mark.
If you click such a...

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How to Use This Manual
Printing
Printing this manual requires a printer.
Some printers can not print illustrations and screen 
samples completely.

Printing the contents of 
explanation screens
1.
Display the page to print.
2.Click .
3.Check the printer etc., then click Print.
How to use the Search 
function
1.Input the character string you want to search 
for in the text box.
You cannot search for multiple lines of text at 
one time.
2.Click .
The title of the page in which the search string 
is found...

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Features
What You Can Do With This Software
This software provides digitizing and editing capabilities, allowing you the creative freedom to design original 
embroidery. Easily turn illustrations, photos and lettering into custom embroidery designs.
Automatically Create an Embroidery Pattern From an Image
cFor more details, refer to “Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Design (Auto Punch 
Function)” on page 18.
Automatically Create an Embroidery Pattern From a Photo
cFor more details,...