Sizes smaller than 1/2″ may not auto digitize well. Clean and simple fonts work best, especially for small letters.
How good is the font? Many free True Type fonts are poorly drawn.How good is the program? Some programs are better than others at breaking up the sections and applying the stitches in a “normal” angle.How good are these font converters? Well that depends on primarily 3 things: ABOUT TRUE TYPE TO STITCHES FONT CONVERTERS Instead, you create new designs every time you use it-which means you often edit every time you create new letters.
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. Designs that have been digitized in other programs and converted to BX format.īecause they are “object files,” native files provide better scaling and options to adjust stitch attributes (density, compensation, etc.)Ĭonverted files are most often fonts that have been digitized in other programs, imported with the font utility, mapped to keyboard characters, had their spacing adjusted (all things you can do with the AlphaTricks module), and finally, using a special program, made into a BX file for easy distribution and installation.Native design or font files that are designs or fonts digitized in Embrilliance software.WHAT’S A BX FILE?Ī BX file is a special installer file that contains “library” kind of file designed for use with specific Embrilliance and EmbroideryWorks embroidery programs. Since I’ve started converting my fonts to BX files for use with Embrilliance and EmbroideryWorks programs, I’ve gotten quite a few questions so I thought I’d take some time to answer them here.