No....I have Melco's Letera for lettering (I also have Lettering Pro but I don't use it). I can get all of Melco's alphabets if I want. It also uses ofm and I can re-size ofm files (v2 only) well (I have the Dakota Collection in ofm). Embird sometimes does a better job with sizing (of course it won't read/save in ofm so I have to save as something else (I usually do dst). I use letera to assign all my thread colors before saving to ofm so that loading in OS I keep my colors. I am considering buying the studio and font converter for embird. At less than $300, I figure I can have my husband learn the digitizing (he likes CAD)! This would hold me off a few more years until children are more out of the house or at least out of my hair (my youngest is finishing kindergarten). Dorothy Compton, Owner Bee Embroidered www.BeeEmbroidered.com (916) 635-7467 -----Original Message----- From: John Yaglenski <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, 30 May 2007 1:37 pm Subject: [amayausers] Re: Design Shop Hey Dorothy... So you even sub out text / lettering work? Or do you do that ith Embird? ---------------------------------------- From: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:13 PM o: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ubject: [amayausers] Re: Design Shop This message was posted by Dorothy Compton on AmayaUsers.com. PLEASE DO NOT EPLY VIA EMAIL. Instead, respond to the thread on the WEBSITE by clicking here: ttp://www.amayausers.com/boards/ultimatebb.php?/topic/3/72.html#000003 Herb, I don't even own Design Shop. I opted not to purchase it when I bought my Amaya. figured with 4 kids at home, working full time (no longer though!) and eginning a new business that trying to learn digitizing was not the best use of y time. I have sub-contracted out all my digitizing. I do have embird to make mall edits and I use Click-n-stitch to generate a rough design for quoting urposes. Dorothy =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List ebsite: http://www.amayausers.com iscussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards ubscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list =========================================================== ========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List ebsite: http://www.amayausers.com iscussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards ubscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list =========================================================== ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================