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3. CA 94583 Enhancements As Buzz Tools makes minor enhancements to our software we will be posting updates on our web page Registered users will be notified of major enhancements and will be able to receive these enhancements by mail 98 Buzz Tools Index 100 Buzz Tools Index B Buzz Tools Contacting 97 Enhancements 98 Explorer Tools 93 Removing 21 Support 97 System Requirements 17 Buzz Catalog Edit Menu 73 File Menu 67 File Types 27 Find Menu 74 Help Menu 85 Page Menu 76 Select Files Dialog 25 Shortcut Keys 89 Supported File Types 91 View Menu 75 BuzzEdit Installing 18 License Agreement 104 C Catalogs Actual Size Sample 29 Clearing 67 Creating 67 Creating Step by Step 25 Deleting Designs 74 Editing Designs 31 74 Fixing Bad Card Data 84 85 Page Layout 69 Printing 29 67 Refreshing 67 Summary Information 76 Summary View Sample 28 Table of Contents 75 Views Available 27 What are they 25 Converting Designs Advanced Options 47 Basic Information 37 Design Colors 39 From Tools Menu 38 77 80 How Designs are Processed 39 On the fly 32 Options 78 Resizing 43 Rotation 43 Splitting 42 Step by Step 44 Why Convert 37 D Designs Colors 39 Converting 38 Creating Notes 51 81 Finding 49 Finding Notes 50 Notes 50 Organizing 59 I Installation 18 Default Directory 21 Internet Buzz Tools Inc 97 W
4. browsing the designs as they are stored on your disks And because of this your catalog will not take any additional disk space to create and maintain Buzz Catalog creates your catalogs on the fly and they are temporary that is they re killed off each time you exit the program You can catalog as many or as few folders as you want each time you start Buzz Catalog If for example you are searching for a specific design and know approximately the folder it is contained in you may choose to catalog only a few folders Or perhaps you are looking for a less specific design in which case you may choose to catalog an entire drive Since each time you start Buzz Catalog the catalog structure is created from scratch you can be assured that the designs displayed in your catalog match what is on your computers disks STEP BY STEP Creating a Catalog 1 Start Buzz Catalog by double clicking the Buzz Catalog icon located on your computer desktop Alternatively you can use the program menu from the Windows start button 2 Buzz Catalog will display the Select Files dialog This dialog displays an Explorer like tree of your files 1 Your Catalog 25 3 The first time you start Buzz Catalog the drive that displays is your C drive Use the drop box labeled Drives select the drive that contains the files you want to catalog W NOTE Your drives files of type and ZIP display choices are remembered by Buzz Catalog and will be shown the n
5. folder start on anew page Buzz Catalog can also display and print your designs in an Actual Size view The Actual Size view displays or prints one design per page along with the design information The designs are printed the same size they will be when they are stitched out and may be used as templates for design placement Use the View menu to switch between displayed views Use one of the File Print menus to print either of these views Buzz Catalog can also display a Table of Contents which lists all of the file names in your current catalog Use the View Table of Contents menu to view the Table of Contents 1 Your Catalog 29 ii u t m irh T mer MI Aia MA dina im Cont MS acer MI Ciia ma den Eigen my Courts WE Ca Sich MU Cuar 2 Lace You can use the Table of Contents to jump to a specific file or folder in your catalog With the Table of Contents displayed scroll to see the file or folder you want Click on it to select it and then click Go To Buzz Catalog will display the catalog page that contains the desired file or folder You can also print a Table of Contents for your designs by using the File Print Table of Contents menu item When you print a Table of Contents your printout will only list folders individual file names are not printed 30 Buzz Tools Chapter 2 Editing Design Files Once you have created your catalog you can double click on your design files to ed
6. on the fly by double clicking on a design see previous chapter or you can convert a batch of design files at once by choosing the Convert Design Files option from the Tools menu Why convert Different embroidery machines require different design file formats If you are going to use another machines designs you will need to convert the design to a format your embroidery machine can understand This historically was done one design atatime by a program separate from the embroidery program If you always use Buzz Catalog to locate your designs and to launch your embroidery machine software you do not need to convert designs ahead of time Buzz Catalog will automatically convert designs for you as needed when you double click on a design In addition to being a convenience this can also be quite a benefit Every time a design is converted some information is lost in the process If you keep your designs in their original format you can be assured that you are keeping the most accurate and detailed On the flv Design Conversions on page 31 for more information pe Ge Sint i a mp m m m kt Gn m a a m ine stint le tani about on the fly design conversions If you want to be able to open your designs directly from your embroidery software or if your embroidery software is the Poem Singer EU or Viking Huskygram you will need to do your 3 Converting Design Files 37 conversions ahead of time Or perhaps you sell your de
7. on the Edit All button another dialog box will open which allows you to modify the actions associated with all of the design file types This is convenient if you want to set up all design file types to open with the same program and to be converted to the same file type on the fly E Dea PEG Fi Ta Tage l Doers Check the Convert XXX Files To Type box if you want XXX file type to be converted on the fly where XXX is the file type you are currently editing Open With Executable File Path This field contains the program used to edit the file or the on the fly converted file Click this button to bring up a File Open dialog box to help you locate your embroidery software Program Name The purpose of this field is primarily to help you fill in the Executable File Path field This field lists some common embroidery programs If you choose one of these you can click on the Find It button to have Buzz Catalog fill Buzz Catalog Command Reference 71 in the Executable File Path for you This field also lists the choices Explorer association or None and Other If you choose Explorer associated or None Buzz Catalog will see if there is a program associated with this file type in Explorer You can see these associations by choosing the View Options menu from Explorer and clicking on the File Types tab If so Buzz Catalog will use the associated program to open this file type If
8. palette as black even if the color is a valid Janome thread color The color palette used by Buzz Catalog to represent the Janome New Home colors was created by matching the actual thread color to the Janome New Home SEW color code This information also applies to users of the Elna Envision Scan PC as they also use the SEW design file format 3 Converting Design Files 41 File Splitting Each embroidery file format comes with certain file limitations and restrictions Typically these limitations are on the number of stitches a design may have or the number of color breaks The limitations are specific to the design format you are converting to and are usually not up for negotiation For example if your embroidery software is the Janome Easy Scan your embroidery machine cannot sew any design that contains over twelve colors When you convert a design to the SEW format that contains twenty colors you will not be able to use the final design unless the design has been divided into parts During conversions Buzz Catalog can split a design with too many colors or stitches in two or more files By default the design in this example would be divided into two files File one would contain the color breaks one through twelve and file two would contain the color breaks thirteen though twenty This PES design had to be split into two parts to convert correctly to PCS The new files names will be the original name wit
9. to extract from If you do not want to extract an entire folder of ZIP s select the individual ZIP files of interest to you 5 Click OK to display your catalog 6 Once your catalog is displayed select the Tools Extract ZIP d Files option Earact Id Pe je lil ee Lara kul if 56 Buzz Tools 7 Choose to extract files from the entire catalog and since you already backed up your ZIP files you did didn t you choose to have Buzz Catalog delete the original file after extraction Click to continue tebiaci ZIG Fler Pe uszni 8 Buzz Catalog displays the number of files that will be extracted along with your display options Since you elected to delete the original ZIP file only the Extracted File Only option will be active Click to extract the files Since we previously selected the Delete Original Files option the files will be deleted from the ZIP files after extraction If all the files are deleted from a specific ZIP file the ZIP file itself is deleted 5 Zip Archives amp Your Catalog 57 58 Buzz Tools Chapter 6 Organizing Your Designs As you recall Buzz Catalog displays your designs in the same folder structure as you have on your disk By showing you what you have Buzz Catalog can help you in locating your designs and when used along side of Explorer Buzz Catalog becomes a powerful tool for organizing your designs Before you start organizing your designs you nee
10. toggle back and forth from Summary and Actual Size views by pressing Ctrl A Buzz Catalog Command Reference 75 Sunnery Infomation Sets the amount of data to be included in Summary view This option duplicates the Data Option in the File Page Layout menu Filename Only Only the design file name is included Sew Summary The filename design size the number of stitches and the number of colors are included for each design Color Breaks The colors and stitching order are displayed along with the filename design size the number of stitches and the number of colors b NOTE Actual Size printouts will include all of the design information regardless of these settings Show Hoop Sets whether or not the hoop boundary will display or print Show Border Sets whether or not the design border will display or print Page Menu Next Page Previous Page First Page Last Page Changes to the appropriate page 76 Buzz Tools Number Prompts you for apage number and then displays the selected page Tools Menu Convert Design Files Converts the stitched based designs in your current catalog to the design file type you specify The Convert Design Files wizard guides you through the process In the first dialog box you specify the file type to which you want to convert and what part of your catalog to convert Convert Wizard Screen One Conve Deeg Files Buzz Catalog Command Reference 77 Convert F
11. with lots of pages in your catalog with only one design per page STEP BY STEP Extracting ZIP d Designs If you always use Buzz Catalog to launch your embroidery software and to open your designs you do not need to extract your designs from their ZIP files If you want to be able to open them directly from your embroidery software you will need to extract your designs from their ZIP files Use this procedure to extract or unzip all of the files contained within your ZIP files 1 BACKUP the original ZIP files You can do this by copying the ZIP files to diskettes or to another type of removable media Label date and put the backups in a safe location away from excessive heat or magnetic fields such as magnetic pin holders This is especially important if you are going to have Buzz Catalog delete the original ZIP files after it has extracted them 2 Start Buzz Catalog 3 Using the Select Files dialog choose the file type and zip display option As Files NOTE Although you can extract ZIP files when your ZIP s are displayed As Folders it can be more confusing for the beginning user as the extracted files are not displayed adjacent to the original ZIP d design If you do have your ZIP s display As Folders you will need to create a new catalog or refresh the existing catalog before your extracted files will display 5 Zip Archives amp Your Catalog 55 4 Choose the folders that contain the ZIP s you want
12. your computer desktop Be sure to check the Readme file for any late breaking news You can open this file by double clicking on its icon Install BuzzEdit Lite BuzzEdit is a full featured embroidery stitch editor that allows you to edit your existing designs to create your own personal work of art As an added bonus to our Buzz Tools users we have included a free cut down version of BuzzEdit on the installation CD With BuzzEdit Lite you can change the colors of your embroidery designs watch your design sew and perform minor design 20 Buzz Tools editing such as mirror and rotate In addition from the CD browser you will find a few video tutorials to help you with this product To install BuzzEdit Lite 1 5 From Installation CD browser choose the option Install BuzzEdit Lite The Software License Agreement dialog box opens This dialog box displays the License Agreement between you and Buzz Tools Inc You must accept the License Agreement before you can install BuzzEdit If you do not accept the terms of the License Agreement you should not install this Click Yes to accept The Select Components dialog box opens shown on next page On it you will be asked what components you want to install The sample designs are optional and may be installed later or not at all You can also change the installation directory The default program directory is C Program Files Buzz Tools BuzzEdit
13. Buzz Tods User s Manual Copyright 1997 2001 by Buzz Tools Inc All rights reserved The manual and the software described in this manual are copyrighted All rights are reserved No part of the manual or the described software may be copied reproduced translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine readable format without prior written approval of Buzz Tools Inc Buzz Tools and BuzzEdit are registered trademarks of Buzz Tools Inc Baby Lock is a registered trademark of Baby Lock USA Bernina is a registered trademark of Fritz Gegauf AG BERNINA Sewing Machines Brother is a registered trademark of Brother International Microsoft Windows are registered trademark of Microsoft Corp WinZip is a registered trademark of Niko Mak Computing Inc Other products and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners Welcome As a home embroiderer got tired of doing the same routines over and over again just to convert design file formats or print design information sheets Since prefer to have my printouts include all design information on the same page found that I was repeating the same keystrokes over and over again to create the type of printout I wanted My embroidery software gave me this information but had volumes of printouts as each page could contain at the most one design My search for more design information and more designs per page led to the developm
14. Buzz Tools products Many of the designs shown in the examples are available here http annthegran com This web site contains hundreds of free designs contributed by members of the BBD home embroidery community and hundreds of links to other sewing related web sites From the links on these two sites and you will find other embroidery web sites and potentially download thousands of designs all for free Including ZIP s in Your Catalog It is easy to include ZIP files in your catalog On the Select Files dialog choose from the following ZIP display options None Zip files are not included in your catalog Cup6c pes Cup6c pes gt tritsch zip 3 78x3 76 inches 29 520 stitches 3 78x3 76 inches 29 520 stitches 12 thread changes 9 colors 12 thread changes 9 colors As Files The files within each ZIP file are treated as other files in your catalog and are displayed along side other unzipped files in same folder The files are sorted by the file name and not the name of the ZIP file that contains them 54 Buzz Tools The name of the file is displayed before the name of the ZIP and is separated from itbya gt As Folders Not shown The ZIP files are treated as folders within Buzz Catalog It is important to remember that if you select this option each ZIP will start on its own page in the catalog If you happen to have a lot of ZIP files in your catalog that contain only one file each you will end up
15. Catalog how it should display the newly converted files Click to display the last Wizard screen or if you want to use the values you selected previously for the last screen and are ready to start the conversion process If you are converting to DST or EXP the last wizard screen does not apply and will not be displayed Convert Wizard Screen Three Larra it Dene Fi ti Ton Big Ta Fil iri Hie E Tin Ta Robots g L To Use math cone Tha aimake sheer sches Wi iwm peut viku l 10 o kiia Harirmd decor sza Flagge wech a d og F Egrwertil Stl Too Bag Ta Fi inHor Mirian Hip Magers rran ji x Bik Erin Coren If Too Big To Fit In Hoop Try To Rotate Controls whether or not a design is rotated in order to fit within the designs hoop restrictions Try to Shrink Controls whether or not a design is resized shrunk in order to fit within the designs hoop restrictions Buzz Catalog Command Reference 79 Convert If Still Too Big To Fit In Hoop Controls whether or not Buzz Catalog will convert the design even if it doesn t fit into the designs hoop restrictions Some embroidery programs will not read oversized designs thougn Minimum Hoop Margin mm Controls the minimum number of millimeters between the design and the edges of the hoop Extract ZIP d Files Extracts files from the zip archive files included in vour current catalog The Extract ZIP d Files wizard guides vou through the process In the first
16. ES Baby Lock Bernina Brother SEW Janome New Home Elna TXT Text Documents XXX Singer PSW Compucon You may include multiple file formats in the same catalog and the design files may be ZIP d Convert from any of the following formats ASD Melco CSD Poem Singer EU Viking Huskygram EXP DOS Expanded DST Tajima HUS Viking Husqvarna PCD Pfaff PCS Pfaff PCQ Pfaff PEC Baby Lock Bernina Brother PES Baby Lock Bernina Brother B Supported File Types 91 SEW XXX Janome New Home Elna Singer PSW Compucon You may convert multiple file formats at the same time and the design files may be ZIP d Convert to any of the following file formats CSD EXP DST HUS PCS PES SEW XXX Poen Singer EU Viking Huskygram DOS Expanded Tajima Viking Husgvarna Pfaff Baby Lock Bernina Brother Janome New Home Elna Singer PSW Compucon You may convert to ONLY one file format at a time 92 Buzz Tools C Explorer Tools When Buzz Tools was installed on your computer your current Explorer file associations were examined Layout amp Editing Users If Explorer wasn t already configured to launch the appropriate application when a pel pem or pes file was double clicked this was set up for you In addition Buzz Tools has included a utility to allow you to open pec files All you need to do is double click on a pel pes pem pec file in Explorer
17. This default setting is the recommended one If this is not the location you want to use you may use the browse button to locate another directory or you may type the directory name in the text bar on the dialog box If the directory you chose does not exist you will be prompted and if you wish the directory will be created for you Setup will add program icons to the program folder Buzz Tools This is the recommended location for the BuzzEdit program icons Click Next gt Follow the directions on the remaining BuzzEdit installation dialogs to install BuzzEdit onto your computer At the end of installation the Buzz Tools program group displays and a BuzzEdit icon is visible on your computer desktop Be sure to check the BuzzEdit Readme file for any late breaking news Installation 21 To remove Buzz Tools 1 From the Windows Start menu select Settings Control Panel 2 From the control panel double click on Add Remove programs 3 Using the scroll bar locate the program name Buzz Tools and click on it to select it Click Add Remove On the Confirm File Deletion dialog box click Yes 22 Buzz Tools Part Two User s Guide 24 Buzz Tools Chapter 1 Your Catalog What is this catalog The Buzz Tools program Buzz Catalog displays your designs in the directory structure you have on your disks You will not be moving your designs into a separate catalog structure but rather
18. able file path is correct If not use the or button to correct it 6 Click OK Now all of your stitched based designs will convert on the fly to the same type your embroidery software expects If you want to have everything converted to one type as above except you want one specific file type opened with a different program you would still do the steps above and then do the following You might want to do this if you have more then one embroidery program installed on your computer STEP BY STEP Changing one of your on the fly settings 1 Go to the File Settings menu Highlight the file type you want to change 2 3 Click EDIT I Not the Edit All button this time 4 Check the box in front of Convert Design file type to and set the file type to the one of your choice must be supported by the embroidery program you are using to open it 34 Buzz Tools E Corsa PET Fist Ta Type HE a Den iii Eragin H araw E i J Es sz tis File Pal mg 5 Select the name of your embroidery software from the Open With box This software must support the type you chose in the last step 7 Verify that the executable file path is correct If not use the or button to correct it 6 Click OK 2 Editing Design Files 35 36 Buzz Tools Chapter 3 Converting Design Files Buzz Catalog will convert your stitched based design files from one design file format to another for you You can either do this
19. alog and will be shown the next time you open the select files dialog Zip Display By default your catalog will include designs stored in zip archive files These designs will be sorted by the file names within each zip Click on the red boxes next to directory or file names to select or de select files Selecting a directory in this way selects all of the files in the directory and its sub directories ea i 1 The Select Files dialog box is also discussed on page 27 Refresh Catalog Scans the folders in your catalog for new or deleted files and adjusts your catalog accordingly Use this option after copying or deleting design files Clear Catalog Removes your current catalog and displays the page of start up bees Print Table of Conterts Prints the table of contents for your catalog Unlike the displayed Table of Contents this option prints only folder names Buzz Catalog Command Reference 67 W NOTE All three of the Print menu items bring up a dialog box where you can choose the starting and ending page and select the printer Print Summary Prints some or all of the pages in your catalog in Summary view Print Actual Size Prints some or all of the designs in your catalog in Actual Size view If you are in Summary view when you select this option the page range for the printout will default to those designs shown on the current summary page If you are in Summary view a
20. atalog the color stops are assigned a color value so that vou can get an idea of what the design will look like All DST and EXP files display in Buzz Catalog 40 Buzz Tools with the same color sequence and a line displayed for each color stop rather than a color value This is so you can write in your color choices on a printed catalog if you like Harwari Gold i F r Dein Disg Green f beron Tilo ti Deap Geil T Bis Acrei sche 3 ffe mh 16 731 chen J Tosh adaa IE ei T than changes 9 cora F Urad ohare kiri The original PES design looses color values when converted to DST When EXP or DST designs are converted to another file format that requires the color value Buzz Catalog does not know what color the digitizer intended for the color breaks Should color break one be green for a tree or blue for sky Therefore when the file is converted Buzz Catalog assigns its color choices to the file These of course do not relate to an actual color value but represent the color break present in the original file b NOTE FOR JANOME amp ELNA USERS Buzz Catalog converts designs to the SEW format using the entire SEW color palette Although these converted designs may not display correctly in your Janome New Home software they will display correctly in Buzz Catalog and your sewing machine will ask for the correct color This is due to the fact that the Janome software displays all colors that are not in its regular
21. atalog displays your designs in a Summary view shown on next page Each page of your catalog displays multiple designs the number of rows and columns of designs on each page can be changed by using File Page Layout You can also set the amount of design information you want displayed with each design with the View Summary Information menu or in File Page Layout Your choices are Filename Only Only the design file name is included Sew Summary Not shown The filename design size the number of stitches and the number of colors are included for each design Phartr pue Filename Only 1 Your Catalog 27 Color Breaks The colors and stitching order are displayed along with the filename design size the number of stitches and the number of colors Pariri per Ves AZ hetes DIEI ah babe cares 11 oaks Color Breaks The dimensions of the catalog page reflect the page size associated with your printer Thus the catalog will print just as it is displayed TARKETT Mi u Summary View with all available information displayed The summary view displayed above is set to landscape mode In general landscape mode will fill more of your computer screen This is also how the catalog will print unless these settings are changed before printing 28 Buzz Tools The designs are sorted by folder just as in Windows Explorer Within each folder the designs are sorted by name Designs in each different
22. ches This has the effect of making the finished design denser Reduce a design too much and the stitches will be too close together to stitch For most designs vou can reduce them up to ten percent without anv adverse stitching affects Buzz Catalog flags every resized design with a so that you can easily identify them in your catalog and monitor them as you embroidery 3 Converting Design Files 43 them on your machine For a lot of designs you can improve the stitching quality of reduced designs by using a lighter weight thread STEP BY STEP How to Convert Designs 1 BACKUP the original design files You can do this by copying the files to diskettes or to another type of removable media Label date and put backups in a safe location away from excessive heat or magnetic fields such as pin holders This is especially important if you are going to have Buzz Catalog delete the original design files after conversion W NOTE It is essential to save a backup of your original files before you convert and delete them That way ifthere are any problems during the conversion you will not lose your valuable design files Once you have created this backup it is safe to let Buzz Catalog delete the original design files as they are converted 2 Start Buzz Catalog 3 Using the Select Files dialog choose the file type you want to convert from and the folders you want to convert files in If you do not want to convert an entire fo
23. d Sew Summary The filename design size the number of stitches and the number of colors are included for each design For PCS and HUS files the comments in these files are also included Color Breaks The colors and stitching order are included along with the filename design size the number of stitches the number of colors and PCS HUS comments 5 Click to continue 6 Buzz Catalog displays the number of files that it will create note files for Choose from the following options Put Notes in One File One note file is created for all of the designs you are creating notes for If you choose this option you will be prompted for a filename Put Notes in Separate Files A separate note file is created for each design Have Buzz Catalog skip files that already have design notes 7 Click to create the note files and display your updated catalog 8 You may edit any of the design notes by double clicking their displayed text Buzz Catalog will automatically open the design note in notepad or other editor if you have changed your Explorer associations 52 Buzz Tools Chapter 5 ZIP Archives amp Your Catalog What are ZIP archive files If you have ever surfed the Internet looking for design files you will have quickly noticed two thing First the Internet is bursting with FREE designs and second most of these designs are distributed as zip archive files ZIP files are files that contain other files an
24. d designs by rotating the design or by resizing them PES Fix Card Data Fixes the card data of some or all of the pes files in your catalog Buzz Catalog can sometimes detect that a pes files has corrupted or invalid card data It does this by comparing the header information for the card data to the card data itself These files are displayed with the words Bad Card Data in the catalog In most cases this option can fix the bad card data This option first brings up a dialog box in which you choose which designs you want to process Current Design Select this option to fix card data for the current pes design only Current Page Select this option to fix card data for the current page of pes designs Entire Catalog Select this option to fix card data for all of the pes designs in the current catalog 84 Buzz Tools Each selected pes file is examined in turn Buzz Catalog inspects each file to determine whether its card data may be corrupted If Buzz Catalog suspects that the card data is corrupted the card data is recalculated and rewritten W NOTE If none of the designs in your catalog display the words Bad Card Data there is no reason to use this tool You may also turn off all file war displayed See Settings on page 70 for more information PES Version 2 to Version 1 Converts version 2 PES files to the older version 1 PES file type The original versio
25. d are compressed Most design files available on Internet are distributed as ZIP files because ZIP files make it easy to group files and make transporting and copying these files faster Until Buzz Catalog if you wanted to embroider a design from one of these ZIP files you had to extract or unzip it with a separate program such as WINZIP before you could open it with your embroidery software Extract means to decompress files the files stored in an archive file creating separate files on a disk This step is not necessary with Buzz Catalog because Buzz Catalog allows you to include these ZIP files in your catalog Within Buzz Catalog design files within the ZIP file are treated as other files meaning you can convert them create notes for them search for them etc In addition Buzz Catalog includes a tool for the batch extraction or unzipping of ZIP d files This tool has the following limitations 1 The extracted files are always placed in the same folder as the original zip 2 Zip files with passwords are not displayed in the catalog and are NOT available for extraction 5 Zip Archives amp Your Catalog 53 b NOTE If you have not yet explored the Internet you might want to explore this prolific source for embroidery designs A good place to start would be the following web sites hitp buzztools com Our web site offers a place to share designs participate design swaps project ideas and of course support on
26. d to give some thought as to what will work best for you These are items of personal choice and must be decided by you Would you prefer to have all of your designs stored on diskettes or on your computers hard drive or ZIP drive Do you want or need to keep track of the designs origin Do you want to keep the original design files or do you want all of your designs converted before you file tnem Do you want your designs filed by design category or subcategory for example D designs flowers cutwork Will you be keeping note files with design information in them so that you can do simple searches for design information If so you may want to create these design notes before you convert or organize your designs especially if you need to include some of the original design information in these files For more details on searching for designs see page 49 Once you make these decisions you are ready to start organizing 6 Organizing Your Designs 59 STEP BY STEP Organizing Designs Stored on Hard or ZIP Drives When you are organizing designs stored on a hard drive it is easiest to catalog an entire drive of designs and work through it one folder at a time Da en ji i f 7 am a eas i i 1 Open Buzz Catalog along side of Explorer both showing the same folder and each displayed on half of the screen 2 Now that you can see your designs decide what design to drag and drop with Explorer I
27. dialog box vou specifv what part of vour catalog to extract files from Extract Wizard Screen One Exliaci FIFd Fiai ha Hore Urs le nil ba ignored gt Fiss To Erkagi C Dment Page of Designe amp Eris Catalog of Designs 80 Buzz Tools Selected ZIP d File Select this option to extract current ZIP d file only Current Page of ZIP d Files Select this option to extract the ZIP d files contained on the current page Entire Catalog of ZIP d Files Select this option to extract the ZIP d files contained in the current catalog Delete Original Files After Extraction Select this option if you want the original ZIP d files deleted when Buzz Catalog is done extracting them Click on the button Extract Wizard Screen Two Lac ZIFA Fia a Ei IF Fiksi LEPO ig Wit omm F e car bhar TBT a can Fim E ppi Fe E ot phe rn a a egg mo Haba boat henge wel rece bap accede Ka ak Te ern Shane Fig FR eh cape uc A A 17 117 Corky p kodi i A Fel When ZIP s are displayed as files or as folders If your ZIP s are displayed as files use the display settings to tell Buzz Catalog how it should display the newly extracted files If your ZIP s are displayed as folders an informational message will display Click to extract your files Create Note Files Creates note files text files for designs files included in your current catalog The Create Note Files wizard guides you through th
28. e process Buzz Catalog Command Reference 81 In the first dialog box you specify what part of your catalog you want to create notes for and what information should initially be included in those note files Create Note Files Wizard Screen One wara Hots Fih Fra Caren Page od Desire on aii d Devi Mie File Cost er m C ar haug Croker Birmak n Tha emph card sA ten iri all ratu Create Note Files For Selected Design Select this option to create a design note for the current design only Current Page of Designs Select this option create design notes for the current page of designs Entire Catalog of Designs Select this option to create design notes for all of the designs in the current catalog Note File Contents Filename Only Only the design file name is included Sew Summary The filename design size the number of stitches and the number of colors are included for each design as well as any comments stored within PCS amp HUS Files Color Breaks The colors and stitching order are included along with the filename design size the number of stitches the number of colors and PCS HUS comments 82 Buzz Tools Comment Type in up to 50 characters of comments to be included in each design note file Click on the button Create Note Files Wizard Screen Two Lanie Mode Pie szg Buri Caoga Create Hotes Far EFi 7 Ful Motes le One Fas a apra Fils ll Heda Fils Est 6 aka
29. e your designs based on the information you have decided to include 50 Buzz Tools If you are storing your design notes in text files it is important to remember that the design file and the note file are separate entities As you organize your designs you are responsible for making sure that your note files are stored in the same folder as the design they refer to This way when you search your note files for keywords or other text you will be able to find the design STEP BV STEP Creating Note Files You can use Buzz Catalog to create individual note files for your designs Once the basic note file is created you may edit individual note files to include information specific to your designs To create your design notes 1 Start Buzz Catalog 2 Using the Select Files dialog make a catalog that contains the designs that need note files Click to display your catalog 3 Once your catalog is displayed select the Tools Create Note Files option Lieste Mole piis 1 resta late File For f Curent Page ol Deia 7 Erde Caisg of Danga Hote Fia Content C Finare Une C Dew Surana E Doo Breaks TPS sph Sea een Ceny em 4 Design Notes amp Finding Designs 51 4 On the first wizard screen select what part of your catalog you want to process and the amount of information to include in the note files Choose from the following options Filename Only Only the design file name is include
30. eb Embroidery Manufacturers 95 Web Sites to Check Out 54 L License Agreement 104 S Serial Number 18 Seitings Changing on the fly Settings 33 34 Display File Warnings 73 Double Click Action 70 Jingle 72 Options Tab 72 Units 72 Step by Step Changing All on the fly Settings 33 Changing One on the fly Setting 34 Creating a Catalog 25 Creating Note Files 51 Extracting ZIP d Designs 55 How to Convert Designs 44 Organizing Designs on Hard Drives 60 Organizing Designs Stored on Diskttes 61 Support Baby Locki 95 Bernina 95 Brother 96 Buzz Tools 76 Elna 95 Janome 96 Pfaff 96 POEM 96 102 Buzz Tools Singer EU 95 Viking 95 T Tools Convert Design Files 44 77 Create Note Files 51 81 Extract ZIP d Designs 55 Extract ZIP d Files 80 Z ZIP Archives Display Options 54 Extracting Files 55 Including ZIP d Files 54 What are they 53 Why Use Archives 53 License Aggreement License Agreement IMPORTANT PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY This End User License Agreement Agreement is entered into by and between the user of this software Vou or Licensee and Buzz Tools Inc of San Ramon California Buzz Tools or Licensor By installing or using this software You acknowledge that You have read this Agreement that You understand it and that You agree to honor and be bound by the terms and conditi
31. ent of the first Buzz Tools The original Buzz Tools included six programs that performed most functions by automating other existing embroidery programs As Buzz Tools grew we did increasingly more ourselves and consolidated all of the original Buzz Tools functions into one main program Buzz Catalog Buzz Catalog gives you one location in which to search for your designs display detailed information about them and print your catalog in a Summary or Actual Size view Designs are easily edited as you can launch your embroidery software right from Buzz Catalog In addition we added conversion capabilities to assist you in converting your designs from one design file format to another either in batch mode or on the fly as you need them And with Buzz Catalog we no longer rely on any other program to assist in the conversion process Buzz Catalog does it all These tools have been a boon to the organization and management of my embroidery designs Now all of my designs are converted and my catalog is printed At last I can find the design want quickly and easily At last there is time to embroider know you will enjoy using Buzz Tools Plus as much as do Happy Stitching Kruger Lisa A Laufer and the folks at Buzz Tools Inc Contents Contents 5 6 Buzz Tools Contents 7 8 Tools Contents 9 Back Matter 10 Buzz Tools About This Guide Welcome to Buzz Tools a software package for di
32. er you will be using and the source Orientation You may select either Portrait or Landscape Buzz Catalog Command Reference 69 Margins Select the size of your margins Margins settings affect how your catalog is printed but does not affect how the catalog is displayed on screen Images Select the number of columns and rows you would like and the space between them 4 NOTE The space between each field is the minimum space between images the actual space may be larger in order to maintain the aspect ratio of the original design Settings Double Click Action Tab Use this tab to tell Buzz Catalog which embroidery program to launch when a design of the specified type is double clicked Supported file types are listed in the File Types window Highlight a specific file type to display specific information about how Buzz Catalog will handle this file File Type Details File Type The currently selected file type 70 Buzz Tools Convert To If you do not own embroidery software that can edit the selected file type Buzz Catalog can convert the file on the fly to the type of your choosing that you have listed here Open With Displays the name of the application that is used to open the original or newly converted file When you select a file type and then click on the Edit button another dialog box will open which allows you to modify the actions associated with the selected file type When you click
33. expressly provided herein c Licensee shall not remove or alter without Licensor s prior written consent any proprietary notice on any Licensed Product or Documentation 6 MAINTENANCE AND CUSTOMER SUPPORT This Agreement does not provide You with any right to maintenance or support from Buzz Tools However various forms of maintenance and or support are from time to time available on our web site at buzztools com Please see the Buzz Tools web site or the authorized Buzz Tools reseller who sold You the Licensed Products for further information 7 TERM AND TERMINATION This Agreement shall take effect upon Licensee s purchase of a Licensed Product and shall remain in effect until terminated by the Licensee upon one months written notice or by Licensor as set forth in this section This Agreement may be terminated by the Licensee only when all use of any Licensed Product has been discontinued and all Licensed Products and Documentation have been destroyed or have been returned to Buzz Tools Licensor may terminate this Agreement upon written notice if Licensee fails to comply with any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement 8 DISCLAIMERS AND WARRANTIES a EACH LICENSED PRODUCT COVERED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION SERVICES OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR
34. ext time you open the select files dialog 4 By default your catalog will include designs stored in zip archive files These designs will be sorted by the file names 5 The first time you start Buzz Catalog the Files of Type field will display All Supported Types If you do not want to include all supported file types in your catalog select the type of files you would like to include You may choose any of the file types listed in the drop down box or you may type in your selection You may enter several file types at once by separating them with a semicolon For a complete list of supported file types please see 26 Buzz Tools 4 NOTE You can also select the file type of when you create your catalog All file types will then be included in the selection tree File types that cannot be displayed by Buzz Catalog will instead display descriptive text And ifthese files have Explorer file associations you can launch their associated application by double clicking the text 6 Click on the red boxes next to folder zips or file names to select or de select files Selecting a folder in this way selects all of the files in the folder and its sub folders Selecting a zip file in this manner selects all of the files that it contains The file types are of course limited to the types you have specified in the Files of Type field 7 Click to display the catalog Viewing and Printing Catalogs By default Buzz C
35. f you are keeping text files with design information you will need to move these along with the design files Also dont forget to move companion files like pem bmp lay files 3 You can use Explorer to add folders for your different categories and even rename your design files You can set up subjects like Flowers Animals and may even set up folders under these to refine the categories even more 60 Buzz Tools 4 When you are finished moving the contents of a folder click on your Buzz Catalog display to activate it and press Cirl R to refresh your catalog Since you originally cataloged the entire disk all folders and designs are updated to reflect the changes you just made 5 Continue this process one folder at a time until you have gone through all of your design folders This actually goes very fast When you are all done you may want to print your catalog Alternatively you can just use your catalog online and double click on the designs to start your embroidery program STEP BY STEP Organizing Designs Stored on Diskettes It is a little harder to organize your designs when all they are all kept on diskettes If your designs are a real mess i e not sorted you have some work ahead of you We would suggest you 1 Make yourself a stack of blank diskettes labeled as you see your future collection labeled Maybe perhaps something like Animal 1 Flowers 1 etc Keep the number of character
36. goes very fast When you are finished save your original disks someplace safe or make backups of your new disks Diskettes have a high failure rate and we wouldn t want you to loose your valuable designs 62 Buzz Tools You may also want to create a catalog for your A drive if that is your floppy and one by one print a summary for each floppy Since you put a volume label on each diskette this information will print on your catalog and will tell you which diskette each summary is for Again you only need to replace the diskette and refresh your catalog for the design information to be displayed in your Buzz Catalog You can store these printouts in a notebook by subject along with the associated design diskette Most office supplies stores sell notebook pages that can be used to hold diskettes 6 Organizing Your Designs 63 64 Buzz Tools Part Three Command Reference 66 Buzz Tools File Menu New Catalog Brings up the Select Files dialog box This dialog displays an Explorer like tree of your files Files of Type field Select the type of files you would like to include in your catalog You may choose any of the file types listed in the drop down box or you may type in your selection You may enter several file types at once by separating them with a semicolon By default this is set to All Supported Types W Note Your drives files of type and ZIP display choices are remembered by Buzz Cat
37. h a letter appended to the end File one will be appended with the letter A file two with the letter B and so on When you stitch these designs you sew design A first followed by B etc When you are sewing the multiple files of a split design do not move the design sections on your embroidery machine unless you move each section by exactly the same amount The designs will overlay each other in the correct position to create the complete design 42 Buzz Tools This design was split and rotated during the conversion process Design Rotation and Resizing When you are converting designs there may be instances when the original design will not fit in the new file type s hoop Perhaps the original design hoop was taller then it was wide but your embroidery hoop is wider then it is tall Without rotating the design 90 degrees the newly converted design will not fit and cannot be sewn Buzz Catalog provides a rotation option that automatically rotates designs if needed during conversions In addition Buzz Catalog provides a resizing option that can automatically reduce the size of your designs if needed during conversions If you select this option you control the maximum amount that a design can be reduced by Buzz Catalog FLL AA the 99970 e WW 4 Before Resizing Anter resi ing Designs that have been shrunk contain the same number of stitches as the original The design size is reduced bv shortening the length of the stit
38. i Ajiri ad MES ES The second dialog box displays the number of files for which notes will be created You specify where those notes go Put Notes in One File One note file is created for all of the designs you are creating notes for If you choose this option you will be prompted for a filename Separate Files A separate note file is created for each design If Note File Exists Skip Design note files are not created when a text file of the same name already exists Overwrite New design notes overwrite existing ones Append The new design note information is appended to the end of existing note files of the same name Buzz Catalog Command Reference 83 Click to create design note files PES Fit Hoop Adjusts the hoop size of some or all of the pes files in your catalog This option first brings up a dialog box in which you choose which designs you want to process Current Design Select this option to fit hoop for the current pes design only Current Page Select this option to fit hoop for the current page of pes designs Entire Catalog Select this option to fit hoop for all of the pes designs in the current catalog Each pes file is examined in turn For each file Buzz Catalog determines the smallest hoop that the design can fit in and sets that hoop size for the file Designs that cannot fit even in a large hoop are left alone You may be able to fix some of these oversize
39. iles To Type From the drop down box choose the file type you want to convert to Selected Design Select this option to convert the current design only Current Page of Designs Select this option to convert the current page of designs Entire Catalog of Designs Select this option to convert all of the designs in the current catalog Delete Original Files After Conversion Select this option if you want the original files deleted when Buzz Catalog is done converting them You did back them up didn t you Click on the button Convert Wizard Screen Two Conse Design Files De ple Desgre andy Multiple Filed Marsra F Mo E Yir Adamel Fa Esch Fis Corwerledl f dan Coady fall pki Core File Ore 1 rigra Fi Cinky Split Designs into Multiple Files if Necessary Controls whether or not a design is split into multiple parts in order to comply with design restrictions Defaults to the most common values for each design file type If you are an advanced user who does not like the default settings you may click on to 78 Buzz Tools display the Split Criteria settings for the specific file type you are currently converting These advanced settings should ONLY be modified by advanced users who already understand the complexities of file spitting and the requirements of their embroidery machine and or embroidery project For Each File Converted Your Catalog Will Display Use these settings to tell Buzz
40. ing F3 Searching for designs in this manner is very limited However with Buzz Catalog you have another option available to you Design Notes Some embroidery formats i e PCS and HUS allow for the inclusion of limited comments within the design file If you have the Viking or Pfaff embroidery software you may already be using this area in your designs to include information about the designs In Buzz Catalog these comments are displayed in the Actual Size view Other embroiderers use text files to store specific information about their designs Usually there is one text file per design and each contains information such as the source of the design thread colors and specific sewing instructions The text file or note file as we call it is given the same name as the design file but with the extension txt For example the design file Apple hus may have a corresponding note file called Apple txt By default Buzz Catalog includes these note files in your catalog along side of your designs Pl ne an per 1151 93 inc hara 31 427 slices Shred chong Bolo That die gra in var hua to ria Color Changes 1 Sher gt Poster a Black 4 Darp Green 5 Find Plarsicande This design is shown adjacent to its design note You can use Buzz Catalog to search through your design remarks as in PCS and HUS files or through your design notes contained in text files This gives you the ability to locat
41. it them not available on the Poem Singer EU or Viking Huskygram software If you do not own the embroidery software that can edit the selected design file type Buzz Catalog can convert the file on the fly to a file type supported by your embroidery software When you are finished editing your design and are ready to return to Buzz Catalog save your design if you want to keep your changes and exit your embroidery program If you saved your design Buzz Catalog will display the changed design If Buzz Catalog converted your original design file on the fly Buzz Catalog will now display the converted file in place of the original file This automatic refresh feature is only performed if you do not change your active page in Buzz Catalog after double clicking on a design and before you return to Buzz Catalog On the fly Design Conversions 8 Just Double click your design It is converted and opened for you Aei T LI Y E 2 Editing Design Files 31 During installation Buzz Tools determines what embroidery software programs you have installed on your computer If you have only one embroidery software program Buzz Tools assumes that the primary embroidery design file format of that program is the software file format you prefer to use All other supported stitched based design file formats are automatically converted to that file format on the fly when you double click on a design file in Buzz Catalog Your e
42. lder of files select the individual files you want to convert You may convert multiple file types at the same time Also you don t need to worry if your catalog contains designs of the type you are converting to or files that cannot be converted these files will simply be skipped 4 Click to display your catalog 44 Buzz Tools 5 Once your catalog is displayed select the Tools Convert Design Files option This will display the Convert Design Files wizard Choose the file type you want your designs converted to and choose to convert files for the entire catalog For this example we will not be deleting the original files 6 Click Next gt to continue 3 Converting Design Files 45 Buzz Catalog will display the number of files that will be converted along with your display options Choose to display both the original and the converted design in the updated catalog Leave the split design setting at their default value and click to continue 7 The last conversion screen displays By default designs will be rotated during the conversion if needed to fit in the hoop size but designs will not be shrunk or converted if too big to fit in the hoop Change these options if desired and click to convert your files and to display your updated catalog 46 Buzz Tools Advanced Conversion Options If you are an advanced Buzz Catalog user you can control how your designs are converted The conversio
43. lor information at all only color stops to let the embroiderer know it is time to change threads When design files are converted using Buzz Catalog the best possible match is made from the colors available In some cases this may involve selecting a secondary color choice in order to preserve color stops 3 Converting Design Files 39 Embroidery EXT Possible Color Maximum Software Values Colors per Design Brother PE Design Baby Lock Palette PES 63 08 Bernina Deco Wizard Dos Expanded EXP Do not contain Tajima DST colors Not Restricted only color breaks 12 Standard in Ver 1 Janome Easy Scan V 1 z Janome Easy Scan V2 sew 35 Standard in Ver 2 12 Elna EnVision Scan PC 80 if complete color palette is used POEM 16 default colors 14 en k CSD Unlimited if Wraps colors ping HUSKygram RGB color if over 14 values are used 16 Standard or Pfaff PC Designer PCS Unlimited if 16 RGB color values are used wes Ma Current Version is Viking Customizing HUS Not Restricted Unlimited If RGB values are used to set a color in these files there may not be a name associated with it In this case the name is displaved as the RGB value set in the file DST and EXP files do not contain anv color information Thev do have color breaks that is markers in the file to tell the machines to stop sewing but no actual color values Therefore when these are displaved in a catalog such as Buzz C
44. ls Plus 2 The installation process begins Follow the directions on the Welcome to Setup dialog box and click 3 The Software License Agreement dialog box opens This dialog box displays the License Agreement between you and Buzz Tools Inc You must accept the License Agreement before you can install Buzz Tools If you do not accept the terms of the License Agreement you should promptly return Buzz Tools for a refund For your convenience the license agreement is also included in this manual starting on page 104 Click to accept The User Information dialog box opens 4 When asked type in your name company name required you can enter none and serial number The serial number is located on the CD sleeve and on the back of your manual 5 You will be asked in what directory you want to install the software The default directory is C Program Files Buzz 18 Buzz Tools Tools This default setting is the recommended one If this is not the location you want to use you may use the browse button to locate another directory or you may type the directory name in the text bar on the dialog box If the directory you typed in does not exist you will be prompted and if you wish the directory will be created for you Fi bersall ie ears Eszti rt sda eo dei Pd ert ae ie mal B az Te by clog Gara al ta O eriin Choose the Installation Directory Setup will add program icons to the program folder Buzz Tools This is
45. mbroidery software will then be started for you and the newly converted design file loaded For example if your embroidery software is the Brother PE Design program and you do not have any other embroidery software installed on your computer Buzz Tools assumes you want all of your other stitched based embroidery design files converted on the fly to the Brother pes file format When you double click on a Viking hus design file the design file will be converted to pes your PE Design program will be started and the newly converted design file will be loaded If you have more than one embroidery design program installed on your computer you will be prompted at installation time for the name of the embroidery software you use most frequently Design files not natively supported by any of your installed embroidery programs will be converted to the file type supported by your favorite embroidery program The settings that determine which file type Buzz Catalog will convert to on the fly as well as the program used to edit each file type can be modified after installation NOTE Buzz Catalog creates a new file for you during the on the fly conversion The name of the file is the same as the original design you double clicked but with the appropriate extension and the file is located in the same folder as the original file If you do not save the converted file from your embroidery program Buzz Catalog deletes the new file when
46. n 2 PES file will be overwritten during this conversion Help Menu Conterts The online help contains all of the information contained in this manual and gives you the ability to search for specific keywords About Buzz Catalog Displays copyright and version information about Buzz Catalog Buzz Catalog Command Reference 85 Appendixes 88 Buzz Tools A Buzz Catalog Shortcut Keys General Help FI Exit Alt F4 Print Ctrl P Delete Delete or Ctrl D Mening New Catalog Ctrl N Refresh Catalog Ctrl R View Table of Contents Ctrl T View Actual Summary Ctrl A Page Up PgUp Page Down PgDn First Page Home Last Page End Go To Page Number Ctrl G Searching Find in Text F5 Find Files or Folders F4 Find Next F3 Tools Convert Designs F6 Extract Designs F7 Create Note Files F8 A Buzz Catalog Shortcut Keys 89 90 Buzz Tools B Supported File Types Buzz Tools supports the following file formats in the 3 0 version of Buzz Catalog If you are running a later version of Buzz Catalog please check your online help for a current list as there may be additions Display any of the following file formats in your catalog ART Bernina artista low resolution display only ASD Melco BMP Windows Bitmaps CSD Poem Singer EU Viking Huskygram EXP DOS Expanded DST Tajima HUS Viking Husqvarna PCD Pfaff PCS Pfaff PCQ Pfaff PEC Baby Lock Bernina Brother PEL Baby Lock Bernina Brother P
47. n defaults set by Buzz Catalog are the ones that are the most common for each embroidery file format If these defaults do not work well for you you can modify a number of conversion settings On the second screen of the convert files Wizard select Advanced to display the file splitting criteria for the file type you are currently converting to Spelt ritenia For PCS Files FF Split i jhommd changes exceed fra fr Sold d sliches epsa f 4000 fr Back upto last thread change If you are a beginning user or you do not understand these settings you should not modify them They have been set to the values needed by the majority of users and it is possible that you could modify them in such a way as to make your design conversions unusable On the third screen of the conversion Wizard you may decide whether your design is rotated or resized during conversions In addition you can choose whether to use the default color palette or to use best possible colors for designs PCS and CSD file formats only This last setting is located on the Settings dialog box which can be accessed from the File Settings menu For more details see Settings ori page 72 3 Converting Design Files 47 48 Buzz Tools Chapter 4 Design Notes amp Finding Designs Finding the perfect design is always the challenge of the embroidery hobbyist Even when you have your designs filed in folders by subject there are many occasions where one design may ac
48. nd original file This last option is an ideal way to judge the results of the conversion 38 Buzz Tools How Your Files are Processed Each converted design is saved to the same folder containing the original design file but of course with the new extension However if a newly created design file duplicates an existing file name the existing file will not be overwritten Instead Buzz Catalog first compares the existing design file with the new file If they are exactly the same the new file is not written at all If the file contents are different in any way Buzz Catalog creates a new name for the new design file The new name will be the original name with a number appended to the end If you do not like the names selected you can rename them from Explorer after the conversion process is complete Once the new design file is created the original design file is deleted if and only if you specified the Delete Converted Files option Using this option has two advantages First you will have a clean folder when finished Second it will allow you to see exactly where the conversion left off if the conversion gets interrupted Remember if you are going to use this option to save a copy of the original design Colors During Conversions Each embroidery file format comes with certain standard colors and restrictions Some design formats have only a few color choices and some have a plethora And some designs dont contain co
49. nd want to print a particular design on the page in Actual Size view select the design by clicking on it Now the page range will default to the selected design If you are in Actual Size view when you select this option the page range for the printout will default to the currently displayed design NOTE When you choose Print Summary or Print Actual Size the dialog box that appears contains a Print Resolution control with numerous settings for controlling the print resolution If the colors on your printouts do not match the displayed colors try lowering your print resolution as this often corrects the problem You can also reduce the size of the printer spool file if needed by lowering print resolution 68 Buzz Tools Page Layout Page Layout changes how your catalog appears on screen as well as when it is printed t t r ee ei H T H T H T mh ee man mines Data Select the amount of data you would like included in Summary view Choose from Filename Only Only the design file name is included Sew Summary The filename design size the number of stitches and the number of colors are included for each design Color Breaks The colors and stitching order are displayed along with the filename design size the number of stitches and the number of colors W NOTE Actual Size printout will include all of the design information regardless of these settings Paper Select the size of pap
50. nflicts of law provisions thereof The exclusive forum for any disputes arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be an appropriate federal or state court located in the County of Contra Costa the State of California United States of America 12 INTEGRATION This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement and understanding between the parties as to the subject matter hereof and merges all prior discussions between them Neither of the parties shall be bound by any warranties understandings or representations with respect to such subject matter other than as expressly provided herein Any waiver or modification of this Agreement shall only be effective if it is in writing and signed by both parties hereto If any part of this Agreement is found invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction the remainder of the Agreement shall be interpreted so as to reasonably effect the intention of the parties 106 Buzz Tools I
51. no association exists you will not be able to edit this file type from Buzz Catalog If you choose Other you can list any executable file path for Buzz Catalog to use to edit this file type Click this button to have Buzz Catalog search your fixed disks for the embroidery software you have designated in the program name field above Options Tab ject Ae igen Un Fe Dees ee E ihe lohan Corsa Ta PCS FY en eal Lange He hep mal Fm Died Ghas Carr Ta PS si CGD T ibia erden Units for Design Sizes Select from either inches or mm millimeters to change the units used by Buzz Catalog to display design sizes Play Jingle By default Buzz Catalog plays a sound file upon completion of any of the Tools menu commands Uncheck this button if you do not want Buzz Catalog to play the sound file 72 Buzz Tools Display File Warnings By default Buzz Catalog will display some types of file warnings in yellow on top of damaged or questionable design files If you would rather not see these warnings you may uncheck this box You may also be able to When Converting To PES Use small or large hoop Check this if your embroidery machine accepts both a small 100mm x 100mm and a large 130mm x 180mm hoop Use small hoop only Check this if your embroidery machine can only use a small hoop When Converting to PCS or CSD The thread colors in the PCS and CSD files are not limited to a specific set of colors a
52. o look up e Installation instructions page 17 e Step by Step Creating a Cal page 25 e Why Convert page 37 Other Step by Step guides are located throughout the manual For a complete list see the index under Step by Step Guides 16 Buzz Tools Installation System Requirements You can install Buzz Tools on any computer that satisfies the following requirements 486 or Pentium compatible computer Windows 95 98 ME NT 2000 or XP operating systems 8 MB RAM however 16 MB RAM is recommended 4 MB available space on your hard drive Launch the CD Browser The Buzz Tools installation CD Browser should launch automatically after you insert the CD ROM into the drive If it does not launch automatically after a few minutes you can start it manually 1 2 From the Windows Start menu select Settings Control Panel From the Control Panel double click the lt Add Remove programs icon The Add Remove TH Program Properties dialog box opens Add Remove Click Install The Install Programs dialog box Programs opens Since you have already inserted the CD into the drive click Installation 17 4 Microsoft Windows locates the setup exe installation program and the Buzz Tools Plus CD browser opens SEE E m id d nl KAT HE u Ja em ea The Buzz Tools Plus installation CD browser Install Buzz Tools Plus 1 From Installation CD browser choose the option Install Buzz Too
53. ons contained herein If You do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Agreement then You have no right to use any Buzz Tools product and You immediately should contact Buzz Tools or the authorized reseller who sold You this Buzz Tools product and obtain instructions about requesting a refund Please be advised that by purchasing and using Buzz Tools products and by activating the use of those products by completing the software installation procedure You shall be deemed to have become a party to and bound by the terms of this Agreement 1 DEFINITIONS For purposes of this Agreement the following terms shall have the following meanings Documentation shall mean all user documentation including any user manuals or instruction materials in any format provided to You in connection with Your purchase of the Licensed Products Licensed Products shall mean those Buzz Tools software products for which You have purchased use rights as indicated by the title and serial number on the 3 5 inch disk included with this Agreement License Term shall mean in perpetuity or until the termination of this Agreement according to its terms and conditions by either party 2 GRANT OF LICENSE Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement Licensor grants to Licensee a non transferable and non exclusive license to use the Licensed Products and any accompanying Documentation during the License Term 3 OWNERSHIP AND TITLE
54. please contact your local Brother sewing machine dealer or call Brother at 1 800 4 A BROTHER You can also visit their web page at http www brother com The P O E M software is a product of AISIN World Corp of America and is distributed by Singer Sewing Machine Company U S A For information about this product please contact your local Singer sewing machine dealer 1 800 877 7762 or visit the Singer web r t page atihttp www singersewing com The Professional Sew Ware software is a product of Singer Sewing Machine Company U S A For information about this product please contact your local Singer sewing machine dealer 1 800 877 7762 or visit the Singer web page at http www singersewing com http www pfaff com The ScanSoft PC software is a product of Janome Sewing Machine Company For information about this product please contact your local Janome New Home dealer call New Home at 201 825 3200 or visit Janome on the web at http www janome com 96 Buzz Tools E Getting Help Technical Support Although we would like to talk to everyone personally we are a VERY small company started out of our love for embroidery and we do not have the staff to be able to provide telephone support In addition we receive an enormous amount of mail and e mail and often it can take us days and sometimes even weeks to get back to folks who contact us However in spite of these limitations it is important to us to p
55. rovide you with the best possible products and support possible If you are having difficulties with Buzz Tools please 1 Read your manual and online help carefully Users questions can usually be answered this way If your problem is not addressed in this manual you can contact your local Buzz Tools dealer for advice If you have access to the Internet you will want to check our online technical support at http buzztools com Common problems and questions thaf Users encounter will be posted on the Buzz Tools web page as needed Bug fixes and minor enhancements are also posted on the Buzz Tools web site and are available for download free of charge If none of the above help you can mail us a detailed description of any question or problem you have and we will get back to you Include the following e Details about your computer configuration type of computer type of printer operating system etc e What version of Buzz Tools you are running available from the Help About menu and your serial number e Where you purchased Buzz Tools from e Acomplete and detailed account of the problem or question If you are receiving an error message please E Getting Help 97 include the complete message and exactly what steps you took before you received the message e Include your complete address fax number and telephone number and best time to reach you e Mail to Buzz Tools Inc P O Box 1795 San Ramon
56. s in the other design files Thus literally any color can be represented in PCS and CSD designs files Nevertheless the embroidery programs used to create and edit these files do offer a default set of standard colors When Buzz Catalog converts a design to a PCS or CSD file format this option affects how Buzz Catalog creates the colors in the converted design Use Best Colors Check this to have Buzz Catalog use the best colors when creating PCS or CSD files that is the same colors as are in the source design Use Standard Colors Check this to have Buzz Catalog only use the standard PCS or CSD colors when creating PCS or CSD files respectively Exit Exits the program Edit Menu Copv Page Copies the current page to the clipboard in bitmap format Buzz Catalog Command Reference 73 Edit Design File Launches the associated embroidery software and loads the selected designs file converting the design on the fly as required See On hd Design Conversions on page 31 for more Delete Design File Deletes the selected design files This menu option permanently deletes the file from your diskette or hard drive In place of the deleted designs your catalog will display an empty slot where the design used to be Choose File Refresh to remove the empty slots from your catalog Find Menu Text in Notes Searches in the files in your catalog for a string of text that you enter This option looks for the text in tx
57. s under eleven and avoid special characters so you can use the same label on the diskettes volume label 2 Putavolume label on each diskette to match the exterior label e On your computers desktop click the icon labeled My Computer e Right click the icon for the disk are labeling and select Properties 6 Organizing Your Designs 61 e On the Properties dialog box type in your new label and click OK 3 Take your current diskettes one at a time open Explorer to the same location and move the files to a temporary folder on your hard drive Use Buzz Catalog to catalog this folder only and open Explorer to the same temporary folder location If you want the designs converted do this conversion while they are on your hard drive before you organize them 4 Using the catalog image to decide on the new location use Explorer to drag and drop your designs to their new homes on the new diskettes If you are keeping text files with design information you will need to move these along with the files Since you are moving your files to a different drive you will have to delete the copy from your hard drive after you have moved a copy of it 5 When you are done with the first diskette use Explorer to copy the next diskette to the same folder location as the first diskette Click on the Buzz Catalog screen to activate this page and refresh your catalog No need to exit and enter again Refresh is a Ctrl R This actually
58. s you need them Display and print design catalogs any number of designs per page Including optional design information such as size color breaks stitch order number of stitches and design notes Display and print your designs in actual size Correct missing or invalid stitch data PES files only Automatically set the best design page size for your PES designs Include ZIP d designs in your catalog and display them as either new subfolders or files within the current folder Convert ZIP d designs without having to extract them first Extract ZIP d designs thousands at a time in minutes View your text design notes right next to the designs they refer to Create design note files text files for your designs one per design or one note file for all of your designs Introduction 15 e Search for design files e Orsearch the contents of your design note files e Easily launch your embroidery design software and load your current design just by double clicking its image not available for the POEM Singer EU or Viking Huskygram Software e Finally organize your design collection and have time to SEW In a Hurry We have included a lot of information in this manual There is no need to read it all before you use the program Below are some key areas of the manual that can quickly assist you in using the program The more detailed information can then be read at your leisure or when you have a specific question t
59. signs and want to distribute them in multiple formats Buzz Catalog provides a powerful tool converting designs that will allow you to convert thousands of designs in only a few minutes In addition if you are an advanced user you can modify numerous conversions settings so that you control how your designs are converted Conversion Tool You can convert some or all of the files in your current catalog to the file format of your choice by choosing Tools Convert Design Files You can choose to convert the currently selected design only the current page of designs or the entire catalog You may convert multiple file types at once Don t worry if your current catalog contains designs of the type you are converting to these files will simply be skipped For example you may have a catalog consisting of pes and dst files If you choose to convert the entire catalog to pes files the pes files already in your catalog will not be affected In addition if you have files in your catalog that are not designs that is bitmaps or text files these will not be affected VENIE uae Webra Se ET rebar DOBE ce 1il recher 2 1 81 ice Bix l gee T cok Y hrani change E casa Original and Converted Design You can choose which files Buzz Catalog will display after the conversions are completed For each converted file Buzz Catalog can display just the converted file just the original file or both the converted a
60. splaying and converting your embroidery design collection The Buzz Tools main program Buzz Catalog is a Windows 95 98 NT based program and has many of the same familiar features as other Windows applications Using This Guide This guide is divided into chapters that apply to the various features of Buzz Tools Part One Getting Started e Introduction to Buzz Tools provides an overview of Buzz Tools and basic product capabilities e Installation provides system requirements installation and removal instructions Part Two Buzz Catalog Users Guide e Chapter 1 Your Catalog describes what your catalog is how to create a catalog and a bit about viewing and printing options e Chapter 2 Editing Design Files describes how to launch your embroidery software and the settings that control how your designs are converted on the fly for you e Chapter 3 Converting Design Files describes how to convert your designs e Chapter 4 Design Notes amp Finding Designs describes how to use Buzz Catalog to locate specific designs and how the use of design note files can assist in the locating designs e Chapter 5 ZIP Files amp Your Catalog describes ZIP archive files and how to include them in your catalog Also included are instructions on how to extract or unzip the contents of ZIP files About This Guide 11 e Chapter 6 Organizing Your Designs discusses design organization options and describes the
61. sqvarna com The Deco Wizard program is a product of Bernina of America For information about this product please contact your local Bernina sewing machine dealer or leave Bernina e mail from their web page at http www berninausa com The EnVision Scan PC is a product of Elna USA For information about this product please contact vour local Elna sewing machine dealer or call Elna USA at 1 800 992 2991 The embroiderv UNLIMITED software is a product of AISIN World Corp of America and is distributed bv Singer Sewing Machine Companv U S A For information about this product please contact vour local Singer sewing machine dealer 1 800 877 7762 or visit the Singer web page at http www singersewing com The Huskygram is a product of Viking For information about this product please contact your local Viking Husqvarna sewing machine dealer or visit their web page at http www vikinghusqvarna com The Palette program is a product of Baby Lock USA a division of the Tacony Corporation For information about this product please contact your local Baby Lock sewing machine dealer or leave Baby Lock e mail from their web page at http www babylock com D Product Information 95 The PC Designer program is a product of Pfaff For information about this product please contact your local Pfaff sewing machine The PE Design program is a product of Brother International Corporation For information about this product
62. steps necessary for organizing designs stored on fixed or removable disks Part Three Buzz Catalog Command Reference e Describes the menu items and commands available in Buzz Catalog Appendixes e A Buzz Catalog Shortcut Keys lists shortcut keys used by Buzz Catalog e B Supported File Types includes a list of currently supported file types e C Explorer Tools describes a few extra tools included with Buzz Tools that will assist some users with Explorer e D Product Information includes information on the embroidery machine manufacturers and how to contact them e E Getting Help describes how to obtain technical support and enhancements on Buzz Tools products License Agreerrent e Describes the agreement between you and Buzz Tools Inc 12 Buzz Tools Part One Getting Started 14 Buzz Tools Introduction to Buzz Tools Congratulations on your purchase of Buzz Tools The Buzz Tools main program Buzz Catalog allows you to easily locate and USE the designs in your embroidery designs collection whether your collection numbers in the hundreds or in the thousands About Buzz Tools Why look at file names in Explorer With Buzz Tools you can look at your designs Buzz Tools allows you to Find the designs you need from your design stash Locate and delete duplicate or unwanted design files Accurately convert thousands of designs at a time in minutes Or convert your designs on the fly a
63. t files and in the remarks of pcs and hus files File or Folder Name Searches in your catalog for a folder or file of the name that you specify The name that you specify can contain standard Windows wildcards will match any number of trailing characters will match any single character Next Repeats the last search 74 Buzz Tools View Menu Full Screen Removes the menu bar and display your catalog pages on the entire screen Press ESC to bring back the menu bar 100 Percent 75 Percent 50 Percent 25 Percert Fit Window Changes the size of your on screen page The Fit Window options will adjust the percentage each time you resize your window such that the entire page will be visible without any scrolling Table of Contents Brings up a dialog box containing a file tree of your current catalog You can expand and contract folders like in the File New Catalog command You cannot add or remove files to or from your catalog from this dialog This view can be used to navigate to a particular design or folder by clicking on it and then clicking on Go To Your catalog will display the page containing the selected design or folder Summary Switches to Summary view Actel Size Switches to Actual Size view If you are in Summary view and want to see a particular design in Actual Size view select the design by clicking on it then choose View Actual Size NOTE You can
64. the recommended location for the Buzz Tools program icons Click to install Buzz Tools onto your computer Setup will now configure Buzz Tools so that it can launch your embroidery software First Buzz Tools needs information about the embroidery programs installed on your computer Two dialog boxes displays a list of possible embroidery programs If your embroider software is not listed on the first sceen it may be on the second Check the embroidery programs installed on your computer and click Next gt mi Bat sz u d Baer m m a paa oe e U A Lever ker Tell Buzz Tools which embroidery packages you use Installation 19 8 10 For each embroidery program you will be given an opportunity to confirm its installed location Usually you only need to click for each embroidery program However if Buzz Tools has not successfully located your embroidery software or if the directory folder location displayed for the embroidery software is incorrect you may use the browse button to locate it If you chose more than one of the listed embroidery programs you will be asked which embroidery program you use most frequently Make your selection and click Ban bad amp hama LEE TH T Dre er D Prada bean Lori D persian by Bang Tea Fig 1 itp Haar ui er twe Tell Buzz Tools which program you use most At the end of installation the Buzz Tools program group displays and a Buzz Catalog icon is visible on
65. to open it into Layout amp Editing PC Designer Users Buzz Tools has included a utility to allow you to open your Pfaff files and the appropriate Explorer association was added for you All you need to do is double click on a pcs pcd or pcq file in Explorer to open it into PC Designer Professional Sew Ware Users Buzz Tools has included a utility to allow you to open your Singer XXX files and the appropriate Explorer association was added for you All you need to do is double click on a xxx file in Explorer to open it into PSW Software This shortcut opens your Singer design files but does not load any associated graphic files If you need to open your design along with the associated graphic you will need to do so from within the Professional Sew Ware program and not use this feature C Explorer Tools 93 94 Buzz Tools D Product Information The artista program is a product of Bernina of America For information about this product please contact your local Bernina sewing machine dealer or leave Bernina e mail from their web page at http www berninausa com Buzz Tools and the Buzz Catalog program are products of Buzz Tools Inc Visit us on the web and download FREE DESIGNS The Customizing program is a product of Husqvarna Sewing Machines AB For information about this product please contact your local Viking Husqvarna sewing machine dealer or visit their web page at http www vikinghu
66. tually fall into multiple categories You may for example have a wonderful heart design that is made up of flowers and includes a tender line of text When you originally organized your designs you may have filed this in your Hearts folder or perhaps it was in Flowers The simplest way to find this design may be to create a catalog that includes only the two folders Hearts and Flowers and to page through your designs until you locate the design you are looking for This could work but perhaps you had a weak moment and instead filed the design under Love or even under the name of the digitizer Lorie Frisch If this is the case you may not find the design at all Finding Files or Folders If you know the name of the file or part of the file name you can search for it using the Buzz Catalog Find File Name menu item Eat Fia Perd 7 AJ Daza Gui Jt mmu T pP FT aan Page He Fill in the name of the file or folder you are looking for in the Enter File Name field You may use standard wildcard characters in your search where is the wild card replacement for any number of trailing characters and is the wild card replacement for a single character 4 Design Notes amp Finding Designs 49 Buzz Catalog will display the first file that meets your search criteria If this is not the design you are looking for you can repeat the search by selecting the menu item Find Next or by press
67. you exit your embroidery program If you have made changes to the design file it is of course not deleted See How Your Files Are Processed on page 39 for more information 32 Buzz Tools On the fly Settings You have installed Buzz Tools and now you find that all of your designs are being converted and opened from Buzz Catalog by the same embroidery program That is fine if you have only one program but perhaps you have two embroidery programs installed on your computer You may want most of your designs opened into the embroidery program you use most but want one design file type opened by another embroidery program STEP BY STEP Changing all of your on the fly settings If you want change your on the fly settings so that all your designs open into the same program do the following 1 Go to the File Settings menu Fis Ippe Doi Fete AMP Geen ha Pap Pilea Part Shop Fred Pn exe wear Pa 2 Click Edit All This option allows you to change the settings for all of the designs file types at once 2 Editing Design Files 33 Corel LL Far Ta Type Deen With JET Prograra Ana E JE mihn bel ae De Palace Executable File Pair Eu nn wa Es re 3 Check the box in front of Convert Design file type to and set the file type to the one that is supported by your embroidery software 4 Select the name of your embroidery software from the Open With box 5 Verify that the execut

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