The individual parameter are:


Slant angle:

By the means of the slant angle italics bending to the right or the left can be created, the size ranges from -45 to 45 degrees. The angle is entered by marking and overwriting the angles value. 


Boldness:

The input value for the boldness is a percentage value. By modifying boldness you can create bold or light text, i.e. the contour of the characters gets bolder or lighter. The height of the characters does not get changed and the width of the characters is just slightly altered. You can set boldness-values from 20 to 200%, but depending on the alphabet very bold letters might not be very useful.

Changing the boldness is just possible with specially punched GiS-fonts . 


Stitch division:

Here you can configure the stitch division. Especially if you use large letters a stitch division is recommended, because stitches become too long otherwise.


: This setting means, that the characters are embroidered with normal, undivided satin stitch. 


: This setting means, that characters are filled with centered divided satin stitch, i.e. one stitch line occurs in the middle of the letter. This type of stitch division only makes sense using fonts with an even width, for instance GiS Swiss.


: This setting means that the characters are filled with regular divided satin stitch, the optical effect is similar to step.


: This setting means, that the characters are filled with irregular divided satin stitch, the stitch length varies between minimum and maximum stitch length by chance.


Underlayer:

With the buttons center, zigzag and contur the various underlayer types can be switched on or off. Combinations of the underlayer are also possible.

Generally in letters of the Type GiS and PFa running line along the center line is embroidered at every letter.


Underlayer type center line calaculates a running line in the center of the letters contour. It is especially recommended for small letters. In combination with a swing effect, which you can define under the topic parameter  , more effects are possible 


The underlayer type zigzag creates a double, oblique zigzag-stitch as an underlayer, the distance of which can be set under the button parameter . with this type of underlayer a very high-quality, Three-dimensional embroidery is created. It is only useful for relatively large monograms, whereas for small characters with rather short covering stitches it could result in unpleasant effects.


The underlayer type contour creates a step-line along the contour of the character and ensures a firm fringe. The distance of the underlayers from the fringe of the character is always calculated so that the underlayer is covered completely. In order to ensure this with narrow curves the steplength of the underlayer is reduced.
So the steplength can vary between the value which is adjusted in the Steplength-entry below and this value minus the adjusted percentage value. If you have a steplength of 4mm for example and a percent number of 25%, the stitches will vary between a length of 4mm and 3mm.


The type center + zigzag is a combination of center line and zigzag underlayer


The type contour + zigzag is a combination of contour and zigzag underlayer


Width: 

All fonts are proportional, i.e. the width of the individual characters of a font can vary. The widening of a alphabet can be input in percent. A width of 50% therefore reduces the characters to half their normal width. The height of the characters is not changed. 


Character space:

Each character has a certain space-width before and behind the letter, the value depends on the shape of the character. This ensures that the gaps between the characters appear evenly.

If this space should be increased or reduced you can give it as a percentage of the character size and width. A reduction is particularly useful sometimes in order to move characters together, for example the character-combination 'Ta'.


Word space:

The word space is the width of a space-character and is also defined as a percentage of the font-size. The actual space is displayed in the second column, here you can also input the desired distance in mm.


Line width:

The line space is defined as the space between the base line of the uppercase line and the upper length line of the following line, i.e. the actual gap between capital letters without underlength. The line space is defined as a percentage of the font size or in mm and both values can be edited. 

Caution: If the line space is too small there might be overlapping of lines if you enter characters with underlengths


Rotation angle:

The rotation angle defines the rotation of single characters around the bottom left corner of the character. The rotation can be performed with an angle from -179 to 180 degrees. The rotation of whole words or text modules is done in the module mode2AHF_GA.


Stitch direction

The stitch direction you define her is only related to imported TrueType fonts. The stitch direction of all other fonts is predefined by the punching. Here 0° is vertical direction and 90° means horizontal direction.


Fixing stitch from:

Here you can define the distance between two letters, from which on fixing stitches should be made at the beginning and end of the character. The distance depends on the gap from which on you want to cut out the connecting stitches manually. 

Type:

Here you can select the type of tack- and lock stitches. Tack stitches are displayed in black, lockstitches in red.


Trimming from

Here you can define the distance between two letters, from which on a trimming command is inserted in the data. Fixing stitches are also included independent from the entry in the Fixing stitch from parameter.


Connection:

If you use True Type Fonts you can define the height of the connection between the letters here.


Fill:

If you use TTR fonts the letter can have no filling but only a border. So you can switch off the filling here.


Distance:

Here the stitch-distance oft the covering stitches can be set separately for each character so that the use of various thread or different character sizes within the same monogram can be considered technically.

Definition:

The distance is the distance between two threads. The optimal distance is the double width of the used thread.

Underlayer distance:

The distance of the zigzag underlayer can also be chosen individually for each character.

Underlayer-Steplength:

Here the length of the running stitches for the runnings and center-line- and contour-underlayer is defined in mm.

The percent value defines the maximum shortening of the stitches in curves. See also the topic underlayer above.


Satin border:

These parameter are only available with TTR fonts. If the box is checked, an satin border is added to the letters.

Needle:

Here you can choose a different needle for the border than fort he fill.

Distance:

see topic „distance“ above.

Border width:

Here you can input the width of the border.


Running border:

These parameter are only available with TTR fonts. If the box is checked, an running stitch border is added to the letters.

Needle:

Here you can choose a different needle for the border than fort he fill.

Stitch length:

Here you can input the length of the running stitches in mm.


Extended:

Here you will find more parameter, which are not changed so often.


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