[amayausers.com] Re: Zoom
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The Level you are zoomed at is in the Status bar just above the colors at the
bottom. Check and make sure it is on. Click on VIEW then near the bottom will
be Status Line and make sure there is a check mark next to it. Then click on
the Zoom Tool and Click and Drag a box around something, it will Zoom in on it,
and display the level of Zoom at the bottom.
I think that perhaps what you are listening to is some of the old timers
describing the use of a Digitizing Tablet. Before On-Screen digitizing art work
was placed on a Digitizing Tablet and a Puck similar to a mouse was used to go
around that art work and enter in points. It was a pseudo standard to use art
work that was 6 times the size of the finished design. There were settings in
the software to tell it the scale factor and the design would be made to that
scale factor. I think in todays On-Screen methods this old standard has changed
and what is used to day is what works for the art and the person digitizing.
Usually they will zoom in and out as needed.
The statements below are my opinion and I invite comment from others on this
topic. I KNOW this is going to get some comments. !
I do believe that the old timers have some good things to teach, but unless
they have updated their tools and software as time has passed on they are
behind the times in technology and the methods they teach. It is like a
carpenter still using a hammer instead of an air nailer which is faster and
more efficient. Some of their stuff applies, some does not. I hear about some
of these ?old timers? still using tablets and hand drawn art work. Perhaps in
some cases this is all that there is, but in today?s world Vector Art is easily
obtainable and is becoming the standard and using On-Screen methods has
replaced the old tablets which are not even sold any more.
If you are not capable of making your own vector art there are companies on
the Internet who will convert bit mapped graphics to vector graphics very
reasonably. This charge can be added to digitizing charges. Having the outlines
already entered and just filling them with stitches of the types needed is much
faster than doing the entire thing from scratch. Digitizing companies that are
successful will try and obtain vector files when they can. Those who are up on
the latest technology will teach the use of the tools to create the vector art.
Then the embroidery files are created from the vector files.
Jeff Banks
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