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Subject: Re: need help digitizing a small picture - Three Award Designs for
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:13:28 -0700
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On 9/21/2011 4:39 PM, Kirsty Wursty wrote:
> 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
Will do. Maybe tomorrow morning (it's now 1 am here) or over the weekend.
- Herb
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