Wilcom TrueSizer e3 Desktop

Release Notes
Contents
What is Wilcom TrueSizer ........................................................................................................................................3
The EMB advantage.................................................................................................................................................4
What’s new in Wilcom TrueSizer e3 ........................................................................................................................5
Read & write Wilcom EMB e3 file format..............................................................................................................5
Selection of free designs ......................................................................................................................................6
View multi-decoration EMB designs .....................................................................................................................6
Improved design viewing ......................................................................................................................................7
Improved design-manipulation .............................................................................................................................8
Improved production worksheets..........................................................................................................................8
Re-size & convert many object formats................................................................................................................9
Improved user interface ........................................................................................................................................9
Improved software support ...................................................................................................................................9
Free companion app Wilcom TrueSizer ...............................................................................................................9
Why not make your own EMB files?.......................................................................................................................10
Supported file formats ............................................................................................................................................10
Embroidery file types ..........................................................................................................................................10
Object file formats ...............................................................................................................................................11
Commercial stitch file formats.............................................................................................................................11
Home stitch file formats ......................................................................................................................................12
Copyright ................................................................................................................................................................13
Contact ...................................................................................................................................................................13

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What is Wilcom TrueSizer
Wilcom TrueSizer e3 is a free universal file conversion tool offering full compatibility between industrial and
domestic embroidery file formats, as well as full design scalability. It allows you to view, modify, read and
convert, and output high quality embroidery through its easy-to-use commands and tools. Based on the same
core software as Wilcom’s acclaimed professional embroidery design software, TrueSizer provides the same
unique advantages of the ‘all-in-one’ EMB file format.

In brief, TrueSizer allows you to:

• Open native Wilcom EMB files
• Read and convert many popular industrial and home expanded/condensed file formats
• View designs in TrueView and normal stitch view
• Scale designs
• Email EMB files direct
• Print out production worksheets
• Make sales presentations and sales printouts
• Save designs in Wilcom EMB format
• Save designs in many industrial and home expanded machine formats
• Output to embroidery disk

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Note: If you want to do more with your EMB designs, you can easily upgrade. Just register your copy of
TrueSizer online and order upgrades for Wilcom’s professional range of embroidery design products. See links
at the bottom of the document.

The EMB advantage

Do you receive designs from digitizing centers or embroiderers? Do you send designs to embroiderers or
production houses? If so, Wilcom EMB is the embroidery file format for your day-to-day needs. More
professional designs are created in EMB than any other. The EMB ‘all-in-one’ format provides these distinct
advantages:

Scale EMB designs

Native EMB designs can be easily resized, maintaining all special effects and fills that the digitizer put in the
original. Stitches are recalculated from the original outlines – for guaranteed results.

Email EMB files direct

Send designs to your customer or partner embroidery company in the original EMB format. EMB format can be
sent quickly by email and nothing else is required. Everything is saved in the one file – stitches, colors,
production instructions, design outlines.

Print out production worksheets

EMB files contain all details necessary to create detailed production worksheets. All color sequence
information is saved in the EMB file.

Read and convert many popular file formats

EMB files can be readily converted to other formats so you don't have to switch back and forth between
different programs.

Guarantee quality of the final stitchout

Because EMB format combines original outlines (condensed data) with the full original stitch data, customers
will receive designs exactly as they were created – complete with any fine-tuning stitch edits that may be
included. They can still resize the design from the original outlines with guaranteed rescaling. No confusion
switching between multiple expanded and condensed files.

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What’s new in Wilcom TrueSizer e3
The release of Wilcom’s e3 suite of embroidery and multi-decoration Computer-Aided Design and
Manufacturing solutions brings with it the following improvements to Wilcom TrueSizer e3. Upgrade now and
enjoy the following advantages …

Read & write Wilcom EMB e3 file format

• Support for multi-decoration design elements
• Thumbnails also include multi-decoration objects
• Extra-large TrueView thumbnails
• Improved Windows Explorer Preview

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Selection of free designs
TrueSizer is installed with a selection of free designs.

View multi-decoration EMB designs

View designs containing embroidery and other multi-decoration elements.

Selectively display embroidery with or without multi-decoration including:

• Bling

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• Vector graphics
• Bitmap images
• Applique fabrics
• Multiple colorways from EMB files

Improved design viewing

• Enhanced Slow Redraw in TrueView
• New ‘Rulers & Guides’ display
• Toggle Metric or Inch measurement display
• Display embroidery machine function symbols

• View multiple colorways of an EMB design.

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Improved design-manipulation
• New ‘Mirror by Reference Line’
• New ‘Transform by Reference Line Numerically’
• New ‘Transform by Reference Line Freely’

Improved production worksheets

• Print barcodes in production worksheets
• Print company logos and customer names
• Configure print fonts and margins

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Re-size & convert many object formats
• Re-size all versions of Wilcom-supported object-based design files, including:
o Wilcom EMB
o Bernina ART
o Janome JAN
• Save Wilcom EMB designs version e3, e2, e1.5, e1, V2006
• Convert to & from many machine stitch formats

Improved user interface

• Improved organization of menus and toolbars
• Bigger brighter icons
• Enhanced tooltips

Improved software support

• Windows 7, 8 compatibility
• Easy delivery and installation of software updates online
• Help links to Wilcom website and Embroidery Startup.com
• Display ‘My Product’ information from Help menu
• Digitally signed TrueSizer installation setup from Wilcom

Free companion app Wilcom TrueSizer

• Read, re-size, and convert designs online from your browser
• No software to download – just use your web browser
• Works with Macs, iPad, Android tablets, as well as PCs
• Share files with free MicroSoft SkyDrive cloud storage

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Why not make your own EMB files?
• For easy embroidery and multi-decoration deisgn, use DecoStudio e3
• For lettering and monogramming, use EmbroideryStudio e3 Lettering
• For editing out-sourced designs and lettering, use EmbroideryStudio e3 Editing
• For professional embroidery and multi-decoration design, use EmbroideryStudio e3 Designing
For more information on these and other Wilcom products, visit http://www.wilcom.com today.

Supported file formats

Wilcom TrueSizer supports both native Wilcom EMB file formats and third-party stitch file formats.

Embroidery file types

Embroidery files fall into two broad categories: outline or ‘design’ files, and stitch or ‘production’ files:

Type Description
Object file Object files are high-level digitizing system CAD formats which contain object outlines, object
properties and in Wilcom’s case, also stitch data. When you open an original digitized design
file in Wilcom TrueSizer, it can be accurately resized while preserving the original stitching
effects and correct densities.

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Stitch file Stitch or ‘expanded’ designs are low-level formats for direct use by embroidery machines.
They contain only stitch coordinates and machine functions. Stitch files are generally not
suited to resizing. Because the stitch count does not change, the density increases or
decreases with the design size. Thus you should scale stitch designs by no more than ±5-
10% because the densities scale by the same amount.

Object file formats

Apart from native EMB file format, Wilcom TrueSizer also supports the following outline (design) file formats.

Format Brand Description Read Write

EMB Wilcom All versions of EMB up to and including ES e3 ● ●^
EMT Wilcom All versions of EMB up to and including ES e3 ● ●*
INP Wilcom Native DOS outline file format of Wilcom Computer Embroidery ●
Design software
ART BERNINA All versions of Artista design files from V1 to V6 ●
AMT BERNINA All versions of Artista templates from V1 to V6 ●
CND Melco Outline or ‘condensed’ file format native to Melco machines – no ●
stitch data
JAN JANOME All versions of JANOME Digitizer design files to V4 ●
JMT JANOME All versions of JANOME Digitizer templates to V4 ●
GNC Great Notions Outline file format – no stitch data ●
PCH Gunold APS Outline file format – no stitch data ●
^ EMB files can be saved back to and including ES2006 * EMT can only be saved to ES e3 format

Commercial stitch file formats

Wilcom TrueSizer supports the following commercial stitch (production) file formats.

Format Brand Description Read Write

10O Toyota Stitch file format native to Toyota machines ● ●
BRO Bits & Volts Contains information about stitch arrays ● ●
DSN Nova Older stitch file format ●
DST Tajima Stitch file format native to Tajima machines, with ternary stitch data ● ●
DSB Tajima Like DST but with binary data as used on Barudan machines ● ●
DSZ Tajima Like DST but with binary data as used on Zangs/ZSK machines ● ●
EMX Wilcom Cross stitch data file ● ●
ESD Wilcom Wilcom DOS data file ● ●
EXP Melco Stitch or ‘expanded’ file format native to Melco machines ● ●
INB Inbro Inbro machines native stitch file ● ●
KSM Pfaff Pfaff stitch file format ● ●

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STC Gunold APS APS stitch file format ● ●
STX Datastitch Contains information about stitch arrays ● ●
TAP Happy Happy machines native stitch file ● ●
TBF Tajima TBF (Tajima Binary Format) file format holds needle-addressing ● ●
information for Tajima needle-addressing capable machines.
U?? Barudan Stitch file format native to later model Barudan machines ● ●
Z?? ZSK TC Native ZSK stitch file ● ●

Home stitch file formats

Wilcom TrueSizer supports the following home stitch file formats.

Format Brand Format Read Write

ARX Artista Cross stitch data file ● ●
CSD Poem / Huskygram / Singer EU Contains stitch data ● ●
EXP Bernina Contains stitch data and color information ● ●
HUS Husqvarna / Viking Contains stitch data ● ●
JEF Janome / Elna / Kenmore Contains stitch data and color information ● ●
PCD Pfaff Contains stitch data ● ●
PCQ Pfaff Contains stitch data ● ●
PCS Pfaff Contains stitch data ● ●
PEC Brother / Babylock / Deco Contains stitch data ● ●
PES Brother / Babylock / Deco Contains stitch data and color information ● ●
PMU Proel Contains stitch data ● ●
PUM Proel DOS Contains stitch data ● ●
SEW Janome / Elna / Kenmore Contains stitch data ● ●
SHV Husqvarna / Viking Contains stitch data ● ●
VIP Husqvarna / Viking / Pfaff Contains stitch data ● ●
VP3 Husqvarna / Viking / Pfaff Contains stitch data ● ●
XXX Compucon / Singer Contains stitch data ● ●

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Copyright
Copyright © 1998-2013 Wilcom Pty Ltd. All rights reserved.
No parts of this publication or the accompanying software may be copied or distributed, transmitted,
transcribed, stored in a retrieval system or translated into any human or computer language, in any form or by
any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, manual, or otherwise, or disclosed to any third party without the
express written permission of:
Wilcom Pty Ltd. (A.B.N. 43 001 971 919)
146-156 Wyndham Street, Alexandria (Sydney)
New South Wales, 2015, Australia
PO Box 581, Alexandria, 1435
Phone: +61 2 9578 5100
Fax: +61 2 9578 5108
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.wilcom.com
TrueView™ and Point & Stitch™ are trademarks of Wilcom Pty Ltd. Portions of the imaging technology of this
Product are copyrighted by AccuSoft Corporation. The EPS File Import/Export Converter used in this Product
is copyrighted by Access Softek, Inc. All rights reserved.

Contact
TrueSizer is free software made available by Wilcom International. For more information visit
www.wilcom.com.
For support or troubleshooting, see Onscreen Help.
Ask questions and learn from fellow users on the TrueSizer User Community Forum at
www.EmbroideryStartup.com.

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