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Most embroidery machines do include some lettering facilities and all serious embroidery packages include a lettering module. As of Spring 2019, there is only one included lettering font, but that should change in the future. | Most embroidery machines do include some lettering facilities and all serious embroidery packages include a lettering module. As of Spring 2019, there is only one included lettering font, but that should change in the future. | ||
In addition, InkStitch allows - like a professional embroidery program - creating letters from SVG fonts. See the next two articles. | In addition, InkStitch allows - like a professional embroidery program - creating letters from SVG fonts. See the next two articles, i.e. [[InkStitch - design letters]] and [[InkStitch - Geneva-simple typefaces]] | ||
== The lettering module == | == The lettering module == | ||
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For Ink/Stitch 1.25 (Mai 2019) | For Ink/Stitch 1.25 (Mai 2019) | ||
To create letters | === To create letters === | ||
* Menu InExtensions -> k/Stitch -> Lettering | * Menu InExtensions -> k/Stitch -> Lettering | ||
* Type your text in the popup menu | * Type your text in the popup menu | ||
* Apply and Quit | * Apply and Quit | ||
[[image:inkstitch-lettering-1b.png|none|800px|thumb|Lettering with Ink/Stitch 1.25]] | [[image:inkstitch-lettering-1b.png|none|800px|thumb|Lettering with Ink/Stitch 1.25]] | ||
You now can see a group of letters. Each letter is also a group. Open Menu Objects -> Objects to check this. | |||
=== Adjusting letter size === | |||
By default, the letters produced are rather big, i.e. a capital letter is about 20mm high (font size 79pt bold). You can probably safely scale this down by 50%, e.g. use a letter size of 10mm. | |||
* Menu Object->Transform | |||
* Scale tab | |||
* Tick ''Scale proportionally'' | |||
* Scale to 50% | |||
[[image:inkstitch-lettering-2.png|none|600px|thumb|Reduce size of lettering with Ink/Stitch 1.25]] | |||
Revision as of 13:04, 12 June 2019
Introduction
Lettering is probably the most popular stitching activity for beginning home users. As of Spring 2019, Ink/Stich does include a simple digitized font available under lettering in the Ink/Stich menu.
Most embroidery machines do include some lettering facilities and all serious embroidery packages include a lettering module. As of Spring 2019, there is only one included lettering font, but that should change in the future.
In addition, InkStitch allows - like a professional embroidery program - creating letters from SVG fonts. See the next two articles, i.e. InkStitch - design letters and InkStitch - Geneva-simple typefaces
The lettering module
For Ink/Stitch 1.25 (Mai 2019)
To create letters
- Menu InExtensions -> k/Stitch -> Lettering
- Type your text in the popup menu
- Apply and Quit
You now can see a group of letters. Each letter is also a group. Open Menu Objects -> Objects to check this.
Adjusting letter size
By default, the letters produced are rather big, i.e. a capital letter is about 20mm high (font size 79pt bold). You can probably safely scale this down by 50%, e.g. use a letter size of 10mm.
- Menu Object->Transform
- Scale tab
- Tick Scale proportionally
- Scale to 50%
