"Why do I need to save an imported picture?"
When a new picture is loaded, you will probably need to move and resize it. You should save the picture so that you can then reload the picture without having to remember the exact changes you made.
"Why does my picture keep disappearing?"
The picture under the current character or SuperDesign is not stored as part of the font or SuperDesign file. It is removed when you do one of the following:
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Select a new character or SuperDesign to work with
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Load a font
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Create a new font
Hence, if you select a different character or SuperDesign, then go back to the one where you loaded the picture, the picture will no longer be in the background. Reload the previously saved picture.
"I only want to work on a small part of a picture, but I can’t make the desired part of the picture big enough. How can I do this?"
To digitize over a small part of an existing picture, use Edit Background
to load the picture into mySewnet™ Draw & Paint, select and crop the desired area of the picture, save the edited version in mySewnet™ Draw & Paint, then close to return to mySewnet™ Font Digitizing and start digitizing in the Design window.
"I wish to use a TrueType character as the background picture for a SuperDesign, but there is no way to select one when digitizing a SuperDesign set."
This feature is only available when designing fonts. If you wish to have a TrueType® character as the background for a SuperDesign (for instance, a character from a symbol font), do as follows:
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Open a font. Use Font Background to load the desired background font, then select the desired character. Temporarily deselect Show Font Grid and take a screenshot of the letter. Then load the screenshot into mySewnet™ Draw & Paint save it, and prepared it as a background.
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Open your SuperDesign set and choose the design. In the View tab, choose Edit Background, then open a picture of the desired character from the Insert tab in mySewnet™ Draw & Paint, Close mySewnet™ Draw & Paint to load the chosen character as the background picture in mySewnet™ Font Digitizing. This is also useful if the desired character does not appear in the Select Character dialog box, which may happen with symbol fonts.
"I am saving pictures for the characters or SuperDesigns I am digitizing, but I am worried that they are taking up a lot of space on my computer."
If you save pictures for all 224 possible characters in a font, you could use up to 10Mb of hard disk space, using only pictures generated from TrueType® font characters. This is acceptable, given the storage capacity of modern computers.