On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:03:17 -0700, Herb <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote:
>On 9/21/2011 1:01 PM, Kirsty Wursty wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:03:30 -0700, Herb<Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/21/2011 9:26 AM, Kirsty Wursty wrote:
>>>> I have agreed to make these 3 patches for my child's school but have
>>>> not been able to do (even though I realize it is very easy. Anyone
>>>> have any tips and/or can digitize them for me? I have a Designer SE
>>>> so almost any format is ok
>>>
>>>
>>> Some help please.
>>>
>>> 1) What size? In real terms like inches or centimeters. I THINK you mean
>>> three inches wide, but on my mobile device they're about a quarter of an
>>> inch wide, and on my mega-monitor they're about 8 inches wide!
>>>
>>> 2) Do you need just the text, or the text plus borders, or text plus
>>> fill plus borders?
>>>
>>> 3) Do you want the whole thing as an applique or will you create the
>>> patches from the design?
>>>
>>> Note that text or text and borders is the easiest to do; fill makes the
>>> stitchout a bit more touchy, and doing a full applique is beyond what
>>> I'm willing to try (maybe others would, though)
>>>
>>> 4) I see that the fonts embedded in the pdf are Calibri (IMHO very
>>> boring) and Enstep's "Blanca", renamed. Thank you for embedding them
>>> into the pdf.
>>>
>>> - Herb
>>
>> Hi Herb, I was hoping you could help although I really should be able
>> to do this myself. I am planning to embroider them on white canvas and
>> cut them out after so no applique and no fill in, just the words, dots
>> and border. the finished size should be about 7x 2.7 cm and the
>> border should be about 1.5-2 mm thick with rounded corners.
>> How did you determine the font? I can't see that from my file.
>>
>> Thanks a bunch if you are able to do it.
>>
>> -Kirsten
>
>Great - no problem - I was playing, and here's the first one - just a
>draft sample - no border yet. Let me know what, if any, changes are
>needed. I can get back to it in a couple of days.
>
>Re: Font: If fonts are embedded in a pdf, in Acrobat or Adobe Reader
>click on File / Document Properties. The FILE tab will show what fonts
>are embedded and whether they're fully embedded or just the subset
>that's used in the PDF.
>
>I just recognized Andale Mono, but there are font identification
>websites that sometimes can help.
>
>I couldn't use Enstep's Barca - it has many technical faults - Bernina
>Artista wouldn't even use some of its letters. Instead I went back to
>the original commercial font, PendryScript (available from Linotype,
>Elsner&Flake, URW, ITC, and others). EnStep was a notorious copy-cat
>clone maker.
>
> - Herb
I found it, looks great! I will try it tomorrow. Can you put a border
on it?
Thanks
Kirsten
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