Pfaff IEC/EN 60335-2-28 Owner's Manual page 126

Important resize information
Since designs are digitized for a speci c design size, it is
important to consider the following information about
resize. Always embroider a test sample of your resized
design before embroidering on a project.
• Resize is always proportional. If you reduce
a design 30%, it will be 30% smaller in both
length and width. If the design has a lot of
details some of it may be lost or distorted, and/
or it can be very dense. Some designs should
not be reduced more than 25% if they have too
many details.
• Designs can be increased larger than the hoop,
so ensure that the design ts in the hoop. If the
design is larger than hoop size, the machine will
not be able to embroider it.
• If you are enlarging a design too much, you
may see stitch irregularities. Start over and
resize to a smaller percentage for a better result.
Depending on the memory left in the machine,
you may nd some designs too complex to
resize in the machine. Please use 5D™ software
to resize very large and complex designs.
It is available to purchase from your local
authorized PFAFF® dealer.
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• When repeating resize on a design that has been
resized but that has not yet been saved, it will
always go back to the original design for a new
resizing. This is to ensure the best possible stitch
quality. If a resized design is saved, and then
resized again, it can cause stitch irregularities.
For the best resize result, always start with a
design in original size.
• Depending on how much you resize a design
and on how many stitches it contains, the
resize process will take a longer or shorter
time. Resizing a very large or complex design
may take a few minutes. Once you touch OK,
you cannot cancel and you need to wait for the
process to be nished.
• It does not matter in which order you adjust the
size, rotation, mirroring etc. When you touch
OK, your machine always resizes rst and then
adds the rotation, mirroring etc.
• It is recommended that you scale instead of
resize for changing a design less than 20% and
also for designs digitized with single or triple
stitches, such as cross stitch embroideries. In
this case, you do not want to add stitches to the
design, you only want to make the design larger
or smaller by making each original stitch larger
or smaller.