TrueType font conversion

You don't have to convert. PED4 will let you enter text using your installed fonts.

Here's a hint - it's in "Layout and Editing".

Once there, click on Help, Contents, Index, Find and enter the word "Truetype". That will bring up a help screen that actually helps!

Briefly, you click on the big letter "A" in the toolbar at the left of the window, select your font (and size) from the pull-down font list that appears at the top of the window, and then click where you want your text to appear. The font list starts with a bunch of PED's own built-in fonts, then continues with all of your installed fonts in alphabetical order.

- Herb

Herb, do you know if I can install other fonts into the PD4? If so how would I go about it please? Many thanks for any help you can offer. Regards ConnieD.

You don't "Install fonts into PE4". Any font that is installed in your system (the fonts you use with your word processor or anything else) can be used in PE4. To learn how to install fonts in your system, click on some blank area of your desktop (what you see when you first start your system), then press F1 (Windows Help). Search for the word "font", and it will take you to the instructions for installing fonts on whatever operating system you're using.

As to what fonts are available, there are tens of thousands of fonts out there; many are free and many are commercial. They're very easy to find

- Google is your friend!

- Herb

Related question --

I have PED4 and have used both the native fonts and True Type fonts. Has anyone else found that some TTFs stitch out much, much better than others? I was experimenting with different fonts for a single name tag. They all looked great on the screen, but the Times New Roman was a disaster to stitch -- constant thread breaks, and lumpy wadding on the reverse. The other three fonts all stitched fine, with the same thread, bobbin, needle, and tension settings. I thought, perhaps I could find a font similar to Times New Roman and see if the results are different, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Anyone else have insight on this?

The answer is in how the font is made. And you can only find out by testing things out. What a drag. I have found that generally, sans serif fonts stitch better than serif fonts, but it is not always the case.

DaveJ

Many thanks for your time and patience Herb......will be trying this out in a few minutes. Regards ConnieD.

You're very welcome :)

- Herb