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Chapter 1
Introduction
Welcome to JANOME Embroidery Software, the
leading software application for home
embroidery use. JANOME Embroidery Software
software is a Windows-based product
incorporating many of the conventions with
which most PC users are already familiar.
If you are new to JANOME Embroidery Software,
you’ll be pleased with its flexible digitizing
capabilities, the ease with which you can create
and edit designs, and how simple it is to add or
create your own lettering. However, before you
begin working with the product, read the
Introduction to Embroidery Digitizing
. This chapter
presents an overview of the basic concepts of
digitizing with JANOME Embroidery Software and
provides you with important guidelines on how to
use this software to achieve the best results.
You should also familiarize yourself with
Basic
Procedures
. Here you will learn how to start the
application, create or open a design, print designs,
and how to use some of the essential tools and
features that JANOME Embroidery Software
provides.
Note Use the procedure outlined in the System
Setup chapter to install JANOME Embroidery
Software software on your computer as new.
About JANOME Embroidery
Software
There are two products within the software:
EasyDesign and EasyEdit. These are described
below.
EasyDesign
EasyDesign uses an ‘object-oriented’ approach to
embroidery design, by saving shapes as outlines
that can generate stitches automatically, based on
preset object details. Embroidery objects can be
resized, reshaped and transformed as individual
elements within a single design, with stitches
re-generating automatically after every change.
EasyDesign lets you create new designs from
scratch, combine existing designs and quickly
convert bitmap images into a design. It also
provides a range of fonts and lettering features for
adding monograms and creative lettering to your
designs. With EasyDesign you can:
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