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This tip was donated by Linda Taylor to add to mine below: artfulsage@yahoo.com

Thought I would pass along a tip I have for using True Type Fonts with Quick Fonts.

You don't have to install the fonts into your computer's fonts folder (which will eventually slow your computer down unless you remember to delete them after digitizing them) I download the fonts to a CD and unzip them.


A good site for free fonts is: http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Fonts/


When you want to use them with QF, all you have to do is double click on the font you want to use and get it opened on the desktop screen BEFORE you open 3D Embroidery and it will appear in the font list in QF. As long as the font is opened before you open 3D Embroidery it will appear in the list just as if you had installed it. Pretty neat, uh??

Thanks so much Linda.


OR

If you really want to add them to the fonts in your Windows Fonts folder and used in 3D Quick Fonts Wizard, then read the following.

This is a picture of my “explorer” screen showing the Windows folder opened up to reveal all the folder under it. You will see the “fonts” folder down the list.

If you downloaded some free true type fonts, you need to drag those fonts into the "Windows/fonts" folder.

Right click on "start" and then click on "explore".

Scroll down to find the Windows folder (not the one under documents and settings. Scroll down further and see the Windows folder and click on the "+" in front of it to open that Windows Folder.

Now, you can see the "fonts" folder. That's where you need to put those fonts.

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You can highlight them and click on "edit, copy" and then click on the "fonts" folder under windows and then click on "edit, paste".

When you open the 3D Embroidery Studio and click on the “letter tab” on the bottom right of the screen, it will open the “letter page”. At the top right is QF (Quick Fonts). Click on that to open the Wizard and make those fonts into embroidery type stitching fonts.

Your manual will explain this very well. Look on page 70 and the heading of that page is Creating Fonts with the Quick Font Wizard. Be sure to print out the Guide for Quick Fonts too.