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by akabowers 27 Jun 2008 ( edited Jun 28'08 14:30 )
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I have a Brother Innovis 1200 and am new to embroidery. Is there a way to add new fonts to my machine. I've heard that if I add a font I can only embroider one letter at a time??? Any insight???

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by jrob 27 Jun 2008
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I'm not familiar with your machine, but there will be someone to come along here shortly that can answer your question. I really just wanted to say Welcome! ;)
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by dkjack 27 Jun 2008
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Welcome! Not familiar with your particular machine but I am sure someone hear can help you.
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by letvia 27 Jun 2008
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I am sorry couldn't help but I want to say Welcome to our Cute Community. Flower and XoXo
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by loish 27 Jun 2008
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Also just want to say welcome.
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by lbrow 27 Jun 2008
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Wish I could b of help to U dear, but I do not know enough about your machine to answ U. Welcome to the Cute Embroidery Site. *4U
by Cutie #8325809 27 Jun 2008
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i am not familiar with that one either but i also welcome you someone here has this machine and i am sure they will help i only have a little brother he 120
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by shirlener88 27 Jun 2008
Oh MM, I love the new avatar - is this something new you are working on - oh please share it with me. *4U
by Cutie #8325809 27 Jun 2008
you got mail
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by jrob 27 Jun 2008
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tmjanecek has this machine.....where are you girl, need some help here!
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by geruvyme 27 Jun 2008
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Welcome to the cute family! I am sure someone will have some insight!
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by nonna57 27 Jun 2008
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Sorry can't help but welcome :)
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by shirleysisson 27 Jun 2008
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I too don't know your machine, so I can't help you. Just keep checking this posting and I'm sure you'll get your answer. Welcome to the 'Cute' family - nice to hear from you. *4U
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by shirlener88 27 Jun 2008
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akabowers, WELCOME to the 'CUTE' family - I don't have your machine, however I have a Babylock and that is supposed to be a sister to your Brother - Hehehe! When I want a new font that isn't coming from a designer - one that I want to use in my machine to created lettering - I download the font to my desktop - then I got to the START button of Windows and left click and go to CONTROL panel - once the control panel is open - I will see where the FONT folder is - and then will highlight the FONT that I placed on my desktop and using the curser drop it into my FONT fold - now this font is in my fonts for everything on my PC - my WORD - my email and most of all my program that I use with my embroidery machine - you will be able to notice if it is there by your drop down box of fonts that you use when doing lettering or monograms. Good luck and I do so hope this helps you and any others. *4U
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by akabowers 28 Jun 2008
I'be been told the babylock is the same machine. I'm very much a beginner at embroidery. Would you mind emailing me with an elementary breakdown for downloading a new font to use on my machine. I want to be able to purchase a font and embroider an entire name at once. Not just one letter at a time. The sewing machine store where I purchased my machine is telling me that if I add a new font I'll only be able to embroider one letter at a time like a monogram??? Have you ever tried this? Any suggestions??? Thank you SO MUCH for your response. I've been trying to figure this out for months. The brother web-sight is no help at all. :( My email address is akabowers@hotmail.com THANK YOU in advance!!!
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by nurselilly 27 Jun 2008
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Not sure on that machine my freind has one i can ask her next we speak. I have the 1500D and i havent added a font or tried but if you have a design transfer ( pe design) you can type what you want and save it to the card and do it that way. Or if that machine has a computer transfer you can link it up with your PC and send it that way( which is what i do if i want something differnt to whats on the machine) Other than that have a read of your instruction book when all else fails hehehe but i will ask for you ok good luck :) * 4 U
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by ezzemml 27 Jun 2008
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Welcome to Cute you will get the help you need on anything at this site. You will love everyone here .
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by clawton 27 Jun 2008
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Welcome to the cute community. Looks like you got some help
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by cutiepie 28 Jun 2008
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OK, I don't have the same machine as you do, but I do know that it is the same as any other machine when it comes to fonts and alphabets. That is the first thing you need to know about. What you are calling "fonts" are in fact alphabets. That is, they are designs that just happen to be in the form of letters. Your machine won't/can't recognize them as anything else. That is why you will only be able to sew them out "one at a time" unless you use software to combine multiple letter designs into a word on your computer and save it as a single design BEFORE you send the design to your machine. The embroidery machine does not have RAM (random access memory) that you could save an actual font onto so that you could "type" words onto your machine and then sew out words, and so such fonts are not even created. It is MUCH more difficult to create a font than it is to digitize an embroidery design. If you want to email me, add @xmission.com to my user name here. I will be happy to answer any other embroidery questions you may have, or fill in details on this one. ***** By the way, what Shirlene was describing is how to add a True Type Font to your computer, not anything to do with your embroidery machine. True Type Fonts are not embroidery designs and can never be embroidery designs UNLESS you have an autodigitizing program with the capability of converting them to stitches (this is not something that all autodigitizers do, and those that do have it tend to only do a fair job of approximation with some TTFs and a horrid mess that is not workable at all with others).
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by mops 28 Jun 2008
Thank you Cutiepie for this answer. Id been thinking about this on the same line, but it was just a bit too technical for me to explain in English.
by cutiepie 28 Jun 2008
You are welcome, Mops. Always happy to share my "Font of (sometimes) Useless Knowledge" with anyone/everyone!
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by mpo14011 28 Jun 2008
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What Cutiepie is saying is true. The only way you can get new fonts to embroider is to have a digitizer which can convert any fonts to a design automatically, and yes, you do have to be careful because not all fonts autodigitize well or get a programme like Zoner Draw in which you can create a word using any fonts you have downloaded on your computer, eg the moonstar font,, make it bigger, then save it as a JPEG and import it into your digitizer and manually digitize the word. I hope this is clear enough. Ricky.
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by jrob 28 Jun 2008
clear as mud to me!
by mpo14011 28 Jun 2008
SORRY.It's nearly midnight here and I am a bit tired after spending the day with the visitors. I can see another few tiring days coming up.Ricky.
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by mpo14011 28 Jun 2008
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Sorry akabowers, meant to welcome you to the group. WELCOME.