Fonts dialog

In the fonts dialog which you reach by gong in the menu Tools - Manage - Fonts you can choose between creating new fonts or open an existing font. You have a list of embroidered fonts that are located in the system folder and you also see that there are symbols which had described in the earlier paragraphs. So you either select one of the fonts and you open it or you create a new font by clicking on the New that will launch this window here which is the font’s properties page. This font’s properties page has a couple of settings I can give in version number in the name of the outer then there is a drop down menu which is a fonts type and it offers a couple of selections we will focus on the first font NOMO so we will create the NOMO font first. And when you look at the setting default letter space, this is the spacing between letter to the next letter so the default is the Zero because we are working with the kerning box which we will describe later on.

Font dialog wizard

This wizard will guide you through all the steps. On the left hand you will see the selection of True Type Fonts. This where you will choose the true type font you will work with and in my case its Ariel and down you can also see the preview as how the Ariel font in reality looks like. Once you make this selection then click the Next button then you will be having a dialog open which will show all types of characters that are included in the true type characters that you have chosen. Usually has with fonts with more or fonts with less character. Now what you do here is you select your mark on those characters you really want to work with and you want to include in your fonts file. You can use your Ctrl keys and Shift keys typical windows keyboard shortcuts to select individual letters or a series of letters.

The last dialog of the wizard is where you can select how you can a dialog covert a true type font into an embroidery font. So when you look at the first selection which is Creating Embroidery Segments, this one I recommend it to switch it off and I never use this one because I am the one who will take or control on how the font will look like. If you keep this selection on then this dialog will ultimately convert each character into embroidery character and that when it takes all the control and you won’t have any control over that, so this one is that you must typically have to keep it switched off. Include artwork, this one you need to keep it switched on because it will guarantee that your letter will be imported as an artwork segment into your embroidery file and the last one is the Create Extents Box, this is the one you should keep it on as well because this will ensure that you will have box around your letter and that box will be used as a kerning box. 

Font dialog 

This dialog shows how the font file will be put related so did you that it creates new page and that page contains all the letters that you have selected from your true type fonts and you can also see that you can also automatically assign a name to it. You will also see some strange numbers actually each character has its unique code number, no need to worry too much about this here because it’s just the naming of each of the characters. It’s a great stage to save your file I want you to save your file either by CTRL + S or you go to your menu file and use function Save or Save As, then you will have a small window showing up. Here you can give a name to your font file and that font file will be saved into your system folder, once you click OK.