WHY DO SOME IMPORTED BX CHARACTERS HAVE LITTLE BLOBS ON THEM?īecause it is impossible to know when a letter might be trimmed (generally before the first character and after the last character in the group), each character in an imported BX font must have a tie-in and a tie-off. You change colors of letters, and move each one independently to adjust spacing.
Refer to the current software features to see what’s available. Note: Embrilliance is always updating their software and adding new features and some of these attributes can now be adjust. Other than that, you can’t adjust underlay, compensation, density, or connection points. If you enlarge an imported font, the stitch type will turn into a fill if the stitches get too long.
Later I’ve gone in and digitized the rest of the characters for a full set.Īt this writing, Embrilliance does not yet have a program that will auto-convert True Type letters into embroidery and programs that do are generally fairly pricey.ĬAN I CHANGE THE ATTRIBUTES ON THESE FONTS? When I’ve had to digitize long passages of text, I’ve just added those letters to a font set. The fonts I’ve digitized are ones I wanted to use or have used myself.
They have all been manually digitized and installed as keyboard fonts in my pro software where I have full control over their size, density, compensation, underlay and connection points every time I use one. I don’t use a True Type font converter when digitizing my font sets. If you are a good digitizer, you may find yourself spending more time editing converted characters than digitizing them from scratch.
Often these programs don’t have the ability to install pre-digitized fonts or to make font sets that can be used over and over as pre-digitized (and edited and corrected!) keyboard fonts. Some embroidery digitizing programs have a True Type “font converter” utility, which will auto-digitize any characters you type. To turn them into embroidery designs, they have to be digitized. They aren’t embroidery files and therefore they can’t be stitched. Those fonts are designed to view on screen and to print. Any program that works with fonts can access them, not just Word. I can’t tell you how often I get this question! The short answer is you can’t.įirst of all, fonts aren’t “in” Word they are installed on your computer. HOW CAN I STITCH OUT MY FONTS IN WORD ON MY EMBROIDERY MACHINE? So, yes, with software that works on most any computer, you can create lettering and save it for use with any machine. You can import your embroidery design into these programs, add the lettering, then export in your preferred format, which can then be sent to your machine or opened in other embroidery software. HOW CAN I USE BX FILES WITH MY COMPUTER/SEWING MACHINE/EMBROIDERY SOFTWARE/FORMAT?Įmbrilliance products and EmbroideryWorks run on both Macintosh and Windows, so your computer is a non-issue. These converted files are “stitch files.” They may have been imported as a DST, PES, or any other embroidery file format the program can read.