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Changing Character Proportions

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

1 - Run Embird and click "Editor" menu to switch to Editor window.

2 - Select "Insert > Text" menu or "Insert > Font Engine Text" menu (Picture No. 1).

1. Select "Insert > Text" menu

3 - The "Insert Text" dialog box will appear on the screen. In the "Plug-in" box choose the alphabet which will be used for text characters.

4 - Type your text into the "Text" box and click "Character Proportions" button located at the right side of the "Plug-in" box (Picture No. 2).

2. Click "Character Proportions" button

5 - The "Character Proportions" dialog box will appear on the screen (Picture No. 3). In this example, we have increased the size of upper case lettering (+50%). Click "OK" button to confirm these changes.

3. Change character proportions

6 - Click "OK" button in the "Insert Text" dialog box to create the text. The specified character proportions are taken into account (Picture No. 4).

4. Create lettering using new settings

7 - In case you would like to delete the new character proportion settings, click "Set default values" button in the "Character Proportions" dialog box (Picture No. 5). The size of characters and numbers turn back to their default values. Confirm these changes by clicking "OK" button.

5. Revert changes

8 - Click "OK" button in the "Insert Text" dialog box to create the text. Then you can compare the first text with the second text below, which was created with default character proportion settings (Picture No.6).

6. Compare results

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Embird is modular software for computerized machine embroidery digitizing, quilting and customization

Developed by BALARAD, s.r.o. company since 1997