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This section describes embroidery stitch and outline design formats, as well as
how to open embroidery files in JANOME Embroidery Software. It also describes
saving designs for machine as well as sending and receiving designs by direct
connection. Writing designs to Flash Memory reader/writer is also covered.
Embroidery design formats
Embroidery designs are saved in one of two
formats – 'outline' format or 'stitch' format. JAN is
an outline format and JEF and SEW are stitch
formats.
Note For details of specific formats supported by
JANOME Embroidery Software, see
embroidery file formats.
Outline files
Outline or 'condensed' files are high-level formats
which contain object outlines,
stitch data. When you open an outline file in
EasyDesign, corresponding stitch types, digitizing
methods and effects are applied.
Outline files can be scaled, transformed and
reshaped without affecting stitch density or
quality. After modification in EasyDesign, you can
choose to save your design to the native JAN
format, or to a different format altogether.
Stitch files
Different embroidery machines speak different
languages. Each has its own control commands for
the various machine functions. Before you can
stitch a design, it must be in a format which can be
interpreted by the embroidery machine. Stitch or
'expanded' designs are low-level formats for direct
use by machines. They contain information about
the position, length and color of each stitch. When
they are read into EasyEdit, stitch files do not
contain object information such as outlines or
Supported
object details and
Embossed Fill
object
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stitch types, but present the design as a collection
of stitch blocks. Stitch blocks consist of individual
stitches.
You can scale raw stitch format designs, but
because the stitch count does not change, the
density increases or decreases with the design
size. Thus you should not scale stitch designs by
more than ±5% or some areas may be too thickly
or too thinly covered.
Original stitch design
While stitch designs are generally not suited to
scaling, JANOME Embroidery Software can
interpret object outlines, stitch types and spacing
from stitch data with some success. By default,
stitch files are converted to outlines and objects
upon opening in EasyEdit. These 'recognized'
designs can be scaled with stitches recalculated for
the new outlines. Processing is effective for most
stitch designs but cannot produce the same level of
quality as original outlines and may not handle
some fancy stitches.
File sources
While embroidery files are broadly classified as
'outline' or 'stitch', JANOME Embroidery Software
internally tags files as belonging to one of four
Manual object
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