Janome Digitizer MB, Instruction Book

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Glossary
Active window: The active
window is one to which the next
command or action will apply. If a
window is ‘active’, its title bar
changes color to differentiate it
visually from other open windows.
Allover: Continuous embroidery
which covers all of the goods from
selvage to selvage.
Anti-aliasing: A software
technique similar to dithering
which is used to soften hard
outlines where color blocks
intersect. It produces smoother
outlines by ‘blurring’ the pixels
where colors join.
Appliqué: Decoration or trimming
cut from one piece of fabric and
stitched to another to add
dimension and texture. Designs
with appliqué can be more
economical than embroidery alone,
if appliqué occupies a significant
amount of the design, thereby
lowering stitch count. In Schiffli
embroidery, an embroidered motif,
hand cut or aetzed away from base
fabric.
Appliqué cutter: A device that
can cut fabric along a line,
somewhat like old pen plotters. It
requires a vector file as input. In
MS Windows they can be set up as
a type of printer device.
Artwork: Bitmap or vector
graphic used as a backdrop for
digitizing. See also Bitmap image
and Vector graphic .
Auto Center: Auto Center
automatically centers the start and
end points of a design.
Automatic color change: Ability
of multi-needle embroidery
machine to follow a command to
change to a specified needle with a
different thread color.
Automatic pull compensation:
Embroidery stitches pull the fabric
inwards where the needle
penetrates. This can cause the
fabric to pucker, and gaps to
appear in the embroidery.
Automatic pull compensation
counters this effect by
‘overstitching’ outlines of filled
shapes on the sides where the
needle penetrates. This means the
design can be optimized for
different fabrics. See also Pull
compensation .
Back appliqué: A fabric piece
used behind a design where the
front fabric will be cut away to
reveal the fabric beneath it.
Backdrop: An electronic image
used as a guide for digitizing
designs on-screen. Two types are
used – vector or bitmap. Insert
them from various file sources, or
copy and paste them via the
Windows clipboard.
Background: The area inside the
hoop in the Design Window. The
background color can be changed
to match the color of the fabric you
will be using for stitchout.
Backing: See
Stabilizer .
Backup: The copying of files onto
floppy disk or other storage media
in order to duplicate and secure
data. Usually two copies are made
and kept separately.
Baseline: The notional line on
which the letters of an alphabet sit.
Only descenders extend below it.
Baselines determine the shape of
lettering objects in a design. Place
it on straight horizontal or vertical
lines, curve it around a circle or
arc, or digitize your own baselines.
Baseline Angle: The baseline
angle determines the absolute
angle of the baseline relative to the
horizontal axis. You use it to align
letters to a significant part of the
design.
Bitmap: An electronic image
made up of dots or ‘pixels’, in
contrast to vector ‘outlines’.
Typically created in paint
programs, bitmaps have file
extensions such as BMP, JPG, GIF,
TIF and PCX. When enlarged or
scaled down, vector graphics
preserve image quality while
bitmap images generally cause
problems of pixilation and image
degradation. See also Pixels .
Blending: See Color Blending .
BMP: Windows bitmap image
format.
Bobbin: Spool or reel that holds
the bobbin thread, which helps
form stitches on the underside of
the fabric.
Border objects: The Border tool
creates borders and outlines using
Satin stitch. Typically it is used for
columns and borders of fixed width
with larger shapes. Collectively
these objects are known as Border
objects.
Cascade: A way of arranging
open windows on the desktop so
that they overlap each other, with
the title bar of each window
remaining visible.
Checkbox: A small square box
that appears in a dialog box and
that can be selected or cleared.
When selected, a tick or a cross
appears. A checkbox represents an
option that you can set.
Click: Press and release the left
mouse button. See also Right-click .
Click-and-drag: Click to select,
hold down the left mouse button,
move the cursor and release.
Click-to-Stitch: Toolset used to
create embroidery designs by
automatically digitizing blocks of
color in electronic images.