Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
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User's Manual
Trademarks
COMPUCON has made all possible efforts to supply trademark information about company names, products and services mentioned in this manual. Trademarks indicated below were derived from various sources: COMPUCON is a registered trademark of COMPUCON Computer Applications S.A. is a registered Trademark of The Singer Company Limited MS-Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. PC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. ZSK is a trademark of ZSK Stickmaschinen Gesellschaft mbH. Tajima is a trademark of Tajima Industries Ltd. Barudan is a trademark of Barudan Co. Ltd. FMC is a trademark of Barudan Co. Ltd. FDR is a trademark of Barudan Co. Ltd. Pfaff is a trademark of its respective owner. Melco is a trademark of Melco Industries Inc.. Marco is a trademark of its respective owner. Happy is a trademark of its respective owner. Brother is a trademark of Brother Industries Ltd. Toyota is a trademark of its respective owner. All other accompanying logos, brands and product names are trademarks of their respective companies.
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License Agreement
To the user: This is a license agreement between you and Compucon S.A., established in 14th Klm Thessaloniki / Moudania Road, P.O. Box: 445, P.C.: 57001 THERMI, THESSALONIKI, GREECE, which grants you the right to use this software, sold under registered trademark "Compucon". Buying this software package, you irrevocably accept the terms described underneath. 1. COMPUCON S.A. grants you the non exclusive, non transferable right to use one copy of the COMPUCON Software product ("Software"), acquired with this License, on a single computer only. In case that you wish to install the Software on a network server you should either acquire a number of Software Licenses equal to the number of computers on which the Software will be distributed and used, or a group license. In this case the number of persons using (simultaneously) the Software should not exceed the number of Licenses you have been granted. The software is in use on a computer when it is resident in memory (RAM) installed on a hard disk or other storage device. Software installed on a server for the only and exclusive purpose to be transferred to the workstations or terminals is not considered "in use" according to this license. 2. The Software is owned by COMPUCON S.A. and is protected by International Copyright Laws, International Treaties and Greek Law on Copyright (Law 2121/1994). You acknowledge the copyright ability of the software. 3. You are not allowed to copy or in any way reproduce the Product's manual or other written materials supporting the software. 4. Your right of use the program allows you only loading and running of the program according to its intended purpose. You are not allowed to adapt, translate or otherwise alter the program, to distribute it by any means or electronically, or rent, lease or licence it. No other rights are assigned to you than the herein explicitly mentioned. 5. You are not allowed to bypass, circumvent or remove any copy protection mean. 6. You may not reverse engineer or decompile the software, since it contains secret, valuable know how of the right holder. This does not affect your rights under any legislation implementing the EEC Directive on the Legal Protection of Computer programs. 7. The violation of articles 1,2 and 4 entitles the licensor without any further notice to terminate this agreement as well as any accessory maintenance agreement with the licensee concerning the maintenance of this software. In case of termination the licensee has to erase or destroy the original diskettes or return them to the licensor, return the protection key to the licensor, erase any other copy of the program and return the whole documentation of software. 8. The user of the program cannot reproduce or distribute the program or part of it for private or commercial purposes. The licensee is not entitled to remove or alter any proprietary rights of the program like the copyright notice or the logo of COMPUCON. 9. Under no circumstances will COMPUCON be liable for direct, indirect or consequential or any other damage or loss of data arising out of the use or inability to use the Software or the user documentation, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. To the extend that national applicable law does not allow the exclusion of liability for any kind of damages, COMPUCON's liability in no case shall exceed the amount paid by you for the Software license upon the condition that the user returns all the original diskettes, hardware equipment and devices, including the protection key, returns all documents provided by COMPUCON and erases all existing copies of the program in every possible storage mean. COMPUCON warrants that the software will perform substantially in accordance with the accompanying User's manual. Any COMPUCON's supplied hardware and electronic devises accompaning the Software will be free of defects in materials under normal use and service. COMPUCON however makes no other warranty of any kind either express or implied that the program product is free of errors. No COMPUCON dealer, distributor, agent or employee is authorized to make any modification or alteration to the warranty or liability provisions.
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Manual structure System Requirements Installation of the software Get more at FUTURA Support Site
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Using FUTURA User's Manual In-built Help features
Index Help "How to" Tutorial "Machine set-up" Tutorial
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General informationon working with your PCand software 13
General Windows Tasks Mouse Basics Double-click (with left button) Click Right-click Scroll button Files and Folders 14 16 16 16 16 16 16
How your computer is organized Make New Folder Copy files Open folder Paste files Rename files Delete files Restore files Open files Save/Save As files Screens Blank Open Minimize Maximize Close Dialogue Boxes Move box Box Options
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Inside Welcome Box
Welcome to FUTURA First time machine user / sending a sample design Open Design Start a new Design Set to work with Inches or MM
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How to Print on-screen design
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Inside Exit FUTURA
Exit FUTURA How to Exit FUTURA
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Inside Undo/Redo
Undo/Redo How to Use Undo How to Use Redo
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Open FUTURA software
Open FUTURA How to Open FUTURA
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Inside Realistic View
Realistic View How to Use Realistic View
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Inside Open Design
Open Design
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Inside Redraw Design
Redraw Design How to Redraw Design
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Inside Close Design
Close Design How to Close Design
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Inside Zoom
Zoom In Zoom Out Zoom Full Screen Zoom 1:1 Zoom Fit-to-screen Zoom (set) %
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Inside Save Design
Use Save Design As Use Save Design Design Formats
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Inside Machine Navigator Inside Open Machine Disk
Machine Disk options Use Open Machine Disk Use Delete (from Machine Disk) Use Identify (Machine Disk) Use Copy (files from Machine Disk)
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Inside Stitch Points
Stitch Points How to Use Stitch Points
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Inside Hoop
Change Hoop View Hoop
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Inside Design Browser
Design Browser Dialogue Box
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Inside Grid
Grid How to turn on Grid How to Set Grid Size
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Inside Embroidery Anthology Inside Print Design
Print Design
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Embroidery Anthology Dialogue Box 44
Inside Screen Color
Screen Color How to Change Screen Color
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Inside Design Library
Design Library How to Use Design Library
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Reset Stitch Letters Changing color for Lettering
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Inside Change Size
How to Change Size Rotate a Design
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Inside System Parameters
System Parameters How to Use System Parameters Other System Parameters Show Welcome Dialogue Show User Hints
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Center Design How to Center Design
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Inside Stitch Colors
Stitch Colors Change Stitch Colors
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Inside Help
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Inside Ruler
Ruler How to Use Ruler
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Color Block List Select
Select Design to Move Select blocks To Move To Re-size To Rotate To Delete Change Color
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Index Help 80 "How to" Tutorial 81 "Machine set-up" Tutorial 81 Tip-of-the-Day 81 Keyboard Map 82 Register 82 This option will take you to a page on the Internet at which you will be able to register your software. 82 Get more at FUTURA support site 83 About FUTURA 83
Inside Lettering
Step-by-Step Lettering Text Box Font Style Font Height Spacing Italics Justification Frames Rectangle Frame Circle Frames Bridge Frames
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Thank you for purchasing FUTURA software, a software designed especially for your FUTURA sewing machine. FUTURA has been especially designed as a powerful combination of the FUTURA sewing machine and the FUTURA software. The FUTURA software is the "front-end" of your sewing machine allowing you to easily transfer any kind of embroidery design to the FUTURA machine. What is more, FUTURA software includes numerous editing capabilities allowing you to edit and manipulate your design before transferring it to the machine to be embroidered. In the pages of this manual you will learn how to get the best out of your FUTURA software & machine , for excellent sewing results. We hope you enjoy using FUTURA !
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Manual structure In order to help you easily learn how to use the software, the FUTURA software comes with this manual , divided into the following sections: 1. "Getting Started/Installing the Software..." section , which will help you install the software and understand the general concept of the product before using it. 2. "Inside..." section, designed to provide information and explanation on the complete (detailed) functionality of FUTURA. System Requirements The following is a list of specifications for your PC (personal computer). You can install and use the software on a PC which fulfills at least this specification list. > PC with PENTIUM II or faster processor > Windows OS: Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / ME / XP > 64MB of RAM (128MB or more recommended) > CD-ROM drive > 500 MB (or more recommended) of available hard-disk space for installation > Color standard (640X480 pixels, 16colors) VGA adapter connected with a color VGA monitor (1024x768 pixel; 65,000 colors recommended) > Microsoft compatible mouse
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Installation of the software In order to start using the software on your PC you would have to first install the contents of the CD to your PC. This procedure is refered to as "installation procedure"Please follow the below . listed instructions in order to successfully install FUTURA on your personal computer. The FUTURA software comes on a CD-ROM disc. In most personal computers the default drive setting for a CD-ROM drive is "D:" Please insert the FUTURA CD-ROM into the CD-ROM disc receiver in your PC.
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After some seconds, the Installation procedure of the software will start automatically. In case this will not occur after a short while, you can run the installation procedure manually by going to the "Start" option of Windows, select "Run", type "D:\setup.exe" and click on OK.
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After some seconds the step by step installation of the software begins with the Welcome window. You can always abort the installation procedure by clicking on the "Cancel" button.
Click on "Next" to move on the next screen.
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After reading and agreeing with terms given in the License Agreement, please click on "Yes". Now define your User Name and Company Name (in case there is no information available for "Company Name", insert any character).
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and again click on Next, and then select the directory where the software should be installed. It would be recommended to use the default selected directory.
Simply click on "Next" to continue. Installation:
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Now you are prompted to select the Program Folder where the shortcut for the software will be stored.
Simply click on "Next" to continue. Now you are prompted to select the language in which the Tutorials and Help files of the software will be installed. English language is installed by default.
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