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I digitized a Braille alpha a long time ago. Write me and I'll be glad to send you Mitzi snipped-for-privacy@marziaonline.it

What is your "copy of the braille" - a Viking font? a Computer (Truetype) font? A piece of paper with it printed?

One possibility would be to use a Truetype Braille font to create the text. You could then save an image of the text, as it appears on your screen, to feed into the digitising programme, or even print it out and input it to the Digitizing program via a scanner.

You mention that you have VIP 6 Digitising - do you also have the Customiser? Viking has a programme, QuickFontplus, that creates an alphabet (NOT a font) from a Truetype font.

Are you looking for an alphabet or a font? The difference is that a Viking embroidery font can be used in Customiser by using your keyboard to enter the text. An alphabet consists of 26 (or more) separate designs, one for each character, that have to be incorporated into your overall design.

There may be a freely available Braille alphabet (I just did a brief and unsuccessful search for one), but Viking's fonts are proprietary and expensive. There are a few Barille alphabets for sale (one is US$15 for the set of 36 alpha + numbers).

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- Herb

I have a true type font of Braille , Ann

I think that the easiest thing to do would be to create a document (in Wordpad or Word or even Notepad) using that font, with the image on screen sized to about what you want to create. (Well within your hoop's border size, certainly)

If you have a good image capture program such as Snag-It - Shareware from

the image of the page right from your monitor. Save it as almostanything (Viking Digitizer accepts just about any raster file type -bmp, jpg, gif, wmf, pcx, tif, & more).There are screen capture programs that come with almost every graphicpackage, if you have any. Otherwise, you can print the page and scan itto create a graphic file. (Make your scanner settings read black andwhite only so you don't get millions of color artifacts). Another alternative would be to use the Windows "Print Screen" function

- which captures the entire screen to the clipboard: With your document on the screen, press ALT and the PrintScrn key. This will put an image of the active window (your document window with all of its titles and menus as well as your document) onto the clipboard. (You can see it if you want to bother by Start / Run / Clipbrd). You can then, in Digitizer, Edit/Paste and it will all appear.

In VIP Digitizing, either Edit/Paste as indicated just above, OR, if you've saved an image, go to File / Load Picture and go from there. (How to use Digitizer is a whole other topic - I think it's the most user-unfriendly package possible - and it's GREATLY improved from earlier versions - but that's just a personal opinion from someone who's too lazy to REALLY figure it out again. - I say again because every time I use it I have to learn it all over again.)

- Hope this helps - Herb

Thanks Herb, great help again, Ann