Brother Pe Design 7 Manual

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Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)
3.Drag the handle to adjust the selected 
background image to the desired size.

Moving the background image
1.
Click Display, then Modify Template.
→The background image is selected.
2.Move the pointer over a selected background 
image.
→The shape of the pointer changes to  .
3.Drag the background image to the desired 
location.
Changing the grid settings
The line spacing in the grid displayed in the work 
area can be adjusted.
1.Click Display, then Grid Setup.
→The Grid Setting dialog box appears.
2.To display the grid, select the Show Grid 
check box. 
To hide the grid, clear the Show Grid check 
box.
3.To input the font in a uniform thickness or 
match vertical and horizontal positions, select 
the Snap to Grid check box.
4.In the Grid Interval box, select the grid 
spacing.
To select a grid interval of 1/15 of a work 
area’s edge, click Wide.
To select a grid interval of 1/30 of a work 
area’s edge, click Medium.
To select a grid interval of 1/90 of a work 
area’s edge, click Narrow.
5.To display the grid as solid lines, select the 
with Axes check box.
6.Click OK to apply the changes and to close the 
dialog box.
bMemo:
This function is not available if no template 
image has been imported into the work area.
bMemo:
This function is not available if no template 
image has been imported into the work area.
bMemo:
The pointer will move by the amount set in Grid interval.
The snap feature works whether or not the 
grid is displayed.
aNote: 
When the Show grid check box is selected 
and the with Axes check box is cleared, 
only the intersecting points of the grid will be 
displayed.
bMemo:
To close the dialog box without applying the 
changes to the grid, click 
Cancel. 
						

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Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)
Opening a Pattern File
A previously saved programmable stitch file can be 
opened to be edited.
Toolbar button: 
1.Click  , or click File, then Open.
→An Open dialog box similar to the one 
shown below appears.
2.Select the drive and the folder.
3.To view the contents of the .pas and .pmf files 
in the currently selected folder, click Browse.→A Browse dialog box similar to the one 
shown below appears.
4.To open a file, select it, and then click Open, 
or double-click the file’s icon.
→If the current work area has already been 
saved or has not been edited, the 
contents of the selected file immediately 
appear in the work area.
→If the current work area has not been 
saved, you will be asked whether you 
want to save the changes.
bMemo:
• If the Preview check box is selected, the 
contents of the selected file will appear in 
the 
Preview box.
 To quit the operation and close the dialog 
box, click 
Cancel.
aNote:
To open a fill/stamp stitch pattern, be sure to 
select a folder that contains .pas files. To 
open a motif stitch pattern, be sure to select 
a folder that contains .pmf files.
bMemo:
 To return to the Open dialog box, click 
Cancel.
 A green arrow through the middle of the 
stitch pattern indicates motif stitch patterns 
(.pmf). Otherwise, the data is a fill/stamp 
stitch pattern (.pas).
 Stamps are identified by the red- (engraving 
effect sewn with the fill stitch) and blue-filled 
areas (embossing effect sewn with satin 
stitching).
bMemo:
The mode will automatically change to match 
that of the selected pattern (Fill/Stamp for 
.pas files or 
Motif for .pmf files).  
						

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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.
bMemo:
 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.
bMemo:
If the Preview check box is selected, the 
contents of the selected file will appear in the 
Preview box.
bMemo:
 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.
aNote:
 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. 
						

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Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)
Creating a New Pattern
You can begin with a blank work area in order to 
design a new stitch pattern.
Toolbar button: 
1.Click  , or click File, then New.
→If the current work area has already been 
saved or has not been edited, a new work 
area appears immediately.
→If the current work area has not been 
saved, you will be asked whether you 
want to save the changes.
c“Opening a Pattern File” on page 256, 
“Overwriting” on page 272 and “Saving 
with a new name” on page 272
Selecting the Type of Stitch 
Pattern To Be Created
You can use Programmable Stitch Creator to create 
patterns for programmable fill stitches, stamps, 
motif fill stitches, motif line stitches. The method and 
work area are slightly different for each. Use the 
commands on the Mode menu to select the type of 
pattern that you want to create.
1.To enter Fill/Stamp mode, click Mode, then 
Fill/Stamp.
To enter Motif mode, click Mode, then Motif.
→If the current work area has already been 
saved or has not been edited, a blank 
work area immediately appears in the 
selected mode.→If the current work area has not been 
saved, you will be asked whether you 
want to save the changes.

Fill/Stamp mode
In Fill/Stamp mode, you can make a stitch pattern 
out of a single line or sets of lines, and you can then 
choose to fill the areas enclosed by the lines to 
create an embossing/engraving effect. Both types of 
stitch patterns can be set as a programmable fill 
stitch in addition to being applied as individual 
stamps to regions of patterns in Design Center as 
well as Layout & Editing.
The Line tool in the Tool Box allows you to draw the 
lines of a fill stitch pattern or a stamp, and the 
Region (engrave), the Region (emboss) and the 
Region (reset) tools allow you to fill and edit the 
enclosed areas of the stitch or stamp that you draw.
The sewing method for a programmable fill stitch is 
different from the regular fill stitch, where the thread 
is constantly sewn in a set direction. Instead, the 
pattern will be sewn in such a way that the needle 
drops directly over the created pattern.
bMemo:
 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.
bMemo:
 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. 
						

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Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)

Motif mode
In Motif mode, you can create custom stitch patterns 
by changing the shape of a single line. These stitch 
patterns can be applied in line sewing and region 
sewing in Layout & Editing, and region sewing in 
Design Center.
A green arrow appears at the rignt center edge of 
the work area, showing the direction that the pattern 
(stitch) will be sewn.
A single pink line appears along with the green 
arrow. This line indicates the base for the motif 
stitch, which can be altered by inserting points with 
the Edit Point tool, and then moving them to form 
custom designs.The blue square at the left edge of the work area 
indicates the start point of that line and the red 
square at the right edge indicates the end point of 
the stitch.
The start and end points cannot be deleted, and 
they must be aligned vertically. Therefore, if you 
move one point up or down, the other point will 
automatically move in the same direction.
bMemo:
To display the Preview Window, click Display 
on the menu bar, and then click Preview.
Example of a pattern
bMemo:
To display Preview Window, click Display on 
the menu bar, and then click Preview.
Example of a pattern
Line sewingRegion sewing 
						

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Viewing the Stitch Pattern While Creating It
You can display the Preview window to view a repeating image of the stitch pattern as you create it.
1.If the Preview window isn’t displayed, click 
Display, then Preview.
The Preview window for the selected Mode 
setting appears, as shown in the examples 
below, and a check mark appears to the left of 
the menu command Display Preview.
The image in the Preview window is updated 
as you enter the changes in the work area.
2.To close the Preview window, click its close 
button, or click the menu command Display 
Preview to remove the check mark.
bMemo:
 The Preview window can be resized.
 The setting for displaying the Preview 
window is retained, until it is changed.
Fill/Stamp mode
Motif mode 
						

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Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)
Creating a Stitch Pattern for Region 
Sewing (Fill/Stamp Mode)
The Line tool allows you to draw broken lines to create your fill/stamp stitch pattern. A broken line is made of 
one or more connected straight lines with the end point of one straight line being the start point of the next line.
The horizontal and vertical lines that you draw on the work area always follow the grid. The points that you 
create by clicking the mouse button are inserted at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines of the 
grid, enabling you to draw diagonal lines as well. Regardless of where you click, a point will automatically be 
inserted at the nearest intersection.
Depending on the stitch pattern that you want to draw, you may need to select a grid of a different size. In 
addition, by selecting None, the point will no longer be inserted at the nearest intersection, allowing you to 
create curved patterns. For details on the grids and adjusting them, refer to “Changing the grid settings” on 
page 273.
1.Click   on the Tool Box. 
→When the pointer is moved over the work 
area, the shape of the pointer changes to 
.
2.Click in the work area to specify the start point.
3.Click in the work area to specify the next point.
4.Continue clicking to specify every point, and 
then double-click the last point.
5.Repeat the entire procedure until the fill/stamp 
stitch pattern is completed.
aNote:
This tool can only be used in Fill/Stamp 
mode.
bMemo:
To remove the last point that was entered, 
click the right mouse button. 
						

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Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)
Editing a Stitch Pattern for Region 
Sewing (Fill/Stamp Mode)
Selecting patterns
1.Click   on the Tool Box. 
→The shape of the pointer changes to  .
2.Click the pattern that you want to select.
→Handles appear around the pattern to show 
that it is selected.
3.To select an additional pattern, hold down the 
 key and click the other pattern.

Selecting all patterns
1.
Make sure that   on the Tool Box is 
selected.
2.Click Edit, then Select All.
Moving patterns
1.Move the pointer over a selected pattern or 
group of selected patterns.
→The shape of the pointer changes to  .
2.Drag the pattern to the desired location.
Scaling patterns
1.Move the pointer over one of the handles of a 
selected pattern or group of patterns.
→The shape of the pointer changes to 
,  ,   or  , depending on 
the handle that the pointer is over.
aNote:
A pattern will not be selected if you do not 
click one of its lines.
bMemo:
To deselect the pattern, select a different one, 
click a blank area of the work area, or click a 
button in the Tool Box other than  .
bMemo:
 You can also select patterns by dragging 
the pointer across the pattern that you want 
to select. As you drag the pointer, a 
selection frame is drawn. All patterns that 
are contained in that selection frame are 
selected when the mouse button is 
released.
 If you selected patterns that you did not 
want, click a blank area of the work area to 
deselect all patterns, and start again.
Ctrl
bMemo:
 To move the pattern horizontally or 
vertically, hold down the   key while 
dragging it.
 Pressing the arrow keys moves the 
selected pattern one grid mark in the 
direction of the arrow on the key. If the grid 
is not displayed, the pattern moves a 
distance smaller than the smallest grid 
interval in the direction of the arrow on the 
key.
Shift 
						

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2.Drag the handle to adjust the selected 
pattern(s) to the desired size.
Deleting patterns
1.Select the pattern to be deleted.
2.Press the   key, or click Edit, then 
Delete.
Cutting out patterns
Selected pattern(s) can be removed from the screen 
while saving a copy in the Clipboard.
Toolbar button: 
1.Select one or more patterns.
2.Click  , or click Edit, then Cut.
→The selected patterns are removed from 
the work area.
c“Copying patterns” on this page, “Pasting 
a cut or copied pattern” on this page and 
“Deleting patterns” on this page
Copying patterns
Selected pattern(s) can be saved on the Clipboard 
without being removed from the work area. 
Toolbar button: 
1.Select one or more patterns.
2.Click  , or click Edit, then Copy.
→The selected patterns are copied onto the 
Clipboard and are ready to be pasted.
c“Cutting out patterns” on this page, 
“Duplicating patterns” on this page and 
“Pasting a cut or copied pattern” on this 
page
Duplicating patterns
A copy of the selected pattern(s) can be added to 
the work area.
1.Select one or more patterns.
2.Click Edit, then Duplicate.
→A copy of the pattern(s) are added to the 
work area.
c“Copying patterns” on this page and 
“Pasting a cut or copied pattern” on this 
page 
Pasting a cut or copied 
pattern
The patterns on the Clipboard can be pasted into 
the work area.
Toolbar button: 
1.Click , or click Edit, then Paste.
→The patterns saved on the Clipboard 
(using the Cut or Copy command) are 
pasted into the work area.
c“Cutting out patterns” on this page, 
“Copying patterns” on this page and 
“Deleting patterns” on this page
bMemo:
  is for scaling the width.
  is for scaling the height.
  and   are for scaling both 
dimensions at the same time. (The height-
to-width proportion is maintained.)
 If the   key is held down while a handle 
is dragged, the image is enlarged or 
reduced from the center of the image.
bMemo:
Since the removed patterns are saved on the 
Clipboard, you can paste them back using the 
menu command 
Edit – Paste.
Shift
Delete 
						

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Flipping patterns vertically
You can flip the selected pattern(s) vertically (up/
down).
Toolbar button: 
1.Select one or more patterns.
2.Click  , or click Edit, then Mirror, then 
Horizontal.
→The selected pattern(s) are replaced by 
their horizontal mirror image (top and 
bottom inverted).
c“Flipping patterns horizontally” on this 
page and “Rotating patterns” on this page
Flipping patterns 
horizontally
You can flip the selected pattern(s) horizontally (left/
right).
Toolbar button: 
1.Select one or more patterns.
2.Click  , or click Edit, then Mirror, then 
Vertical.
→The selected pattern(s) are replaced by 
their vertical mirror image (left and right 
inverted).
c“Flipping patterns vertically” on this page 
and “Rotating patterns” on this page
Rotating patterns
You can manually rotate the selected pattern(s) by 
an arbitrary angle.
Toolbar button: 
1.Select one or more patterns.
2.Click  , or click Edit, then Rotate. 
→The handles around the selected pattern 
are replaced by empty squares at the four 
corners of the selected pattern.
3.Move the pointer over one of the four rotation 
handles.
→When the pointer is moved over a rotation 
handle, the shape of the pointer changes 
to .
4.Drag the rotation handle clockwise or 
counterclockwise to rotate the pattern to the 
desired angle.
bMemo:
To restore the image to its original orientation, 
select the menu command 
Edit – Mirror –
Horizontal again.
bMemo:
To restore the image to its original orientation, 
select the menu command Edit – Mirror –
Vertical again.