Printing Fonts

Don’t. This is one reason the Font Library window exists. It makes printing unnecessary.

If you MUST print fonts, there is a way. But first let’s talk about the complexity of this. Embroidery is not TrueType or even remotely related. Embroidery fonts don’t even exist at all. Re-read that.

An embroidery ‘font’ is a bunch of designs, and each design is a lettering glyph: Characters, punctuation, alternates, etc. Fonts are all different sizes, and they are for embroidery, which is larger than typical print, so most whole fonts won’t fit on a single sheet of paper.  If you resize them to fit, which you may or may not be able to do, the stitches will re-generate and could potentially get ugly. Finally, loading and generating font stitches takes a fair amount of time. Doing multiple fonts will take a while. Doing a collection of fonts could take days or weeks.

Every embroidery design, including a letter, has a perfect size that its image may be rendered at. Then, if a user wants to see that image at a different size, they can resize the image. Thus any ‘font’ may be seen as a set of images. When you purchase a font installer (BX file) on the web, the digitzer generally provides a pdf or image of the font. This page has been carefully created by the digitizer. Use it.

Okay, you’re a digitizer and you want to have some steps. There are two ways to make a simple image of your font for PDF or web. If all the glyphs in your font will fit on one design page, lay the designs out as you would like the page to be seen. Maybe two lines of uppercase, two lines of lowercase, and a line of numbers, etc. Now you can use one of the Embrilliance Platform options: Print (we advise PDF using Fit-To-Page) which will work regardless of what product serial numbers you have, or if you have an Embrilliance product that lets you save an image, save a jpeg or png.

If your font will not completely fit on one page, (most do not) then make a set of images, one for each glyph or maybe a line of glyphs, then composite the images in a photo or vector program to create a final version.

In summary, save the trees, use the software.