Creating Lettering; Normal Text Tool; Instruction Manual - Pulse BES Embroidery Software 2 Instruction Manual

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Instruction Manual

Creating Lettering

There are five different tools which are used to input your
lettering into a design: the Normal Text tool, the Path Text tool,
the Vertical Text tool, the Circle text tool, and the Monogram
tool. The following sections describe how to use these tools.

Normal Text Tool

Normal Text items are created using the Normal Text
Normal text items start out with normal proportions for the font,
and can be adjusted.
To create normal text:
1 On the Ribbon, select the Home tab.
2 On the Text bar, click on the Normal Text
3 Click once in the design window.
If another text item was already selected, your first click only de-
selected that item. You will have to click again to place a new
text segment.
An empty text frame appears in the workspace., and the
mouse pointer changes to an arrow with the letter A next to it
.
4 Type the desired text string. To create a multi-line text
segment, press ENTER, which will drop the cursor down
one line, and continue to enter your text.
5 Right-click to complete the text segment.
Your text appears in the design. You can now make any other
changes to the text segment in the Text Properties box.
6 To choose a new font (i.e., other than the currently selected
one) for the text string at this point, do the following:
 In the Text area of Properties panel, click in the Font
field to select it.
 Click on the down-arrow to the right of the font field.
You see a list of fonts.
tool.
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