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Rules and Recommendations for Uploading Fonts
INTRODUCTION The Wilcom API service offers customers who want to use their own specific fonts, a “font upload” service. For this, Wilcom engineers test the user-supplied fonts and make sure that they can be handled by the API Embroidery Engine ...
Remove Artwork Background feature
Software: API Web Application: Design Image Concept Feature: Remove Artwork Background m Please Note: For Design image concept, Remove Artwork background checkbox only works for artwork input. There is no option for generating TrueView from EMB file. ...
How to Report Autodigitizing Problems
INTRODUCTION Autodigitizing is the process to create an embroidery design from an uploaded image and also to create a Trueview image of the design. API customers may find that the resulted embroidery file or the Trueview image does not produce the ...
Easy Access to Online API Documentation
INTRODUCTION One of the first questions that customers ask about the Wilcom Embroidery Web API (EWA) is: how difficult is to implement it? Earlier, interested customers had to sign up to a Trial and Demo Account to read our more important API ...
Colors in Embroidery Machine Stitch Files and the Wilcom Default Color Palette
Wilcom API Support Note: Colors in Embroidery Machine Stitch Files and the Wilcom Default Color Palette INTRODUCTION – A STITCH FILE HAS NO COLOR INFORMATION Please click on the attachment below to read through the document.
Protecting your Website from Image-uploads unsuitable for embroidery
Protecting your Website from Image-uploads unsuitable for embroidery INTRODUCTION Autodigitizing is a frequently sought function in the Wilcom EWA service. Autodigitizing means to convert an Artwork to an embroidery file, i.e. “Automatic Digitizing”, ...
Embroidery Design Size and Stitch Count
This document is prepared for Web developers or Wilcom API customers with only printing background, who are not familiar with the embroidery technology. We have received many questions about why the stitch count increases with the increase of the ...
What are the Wilcom Thread Charts and how to use them in API calls?
Q1: What are the Wilcom Thread Charts and how to use them in API calls? Q2: What are the Color Index numbers and how do they relate to Colors on the Embroidery machine? This article is prepared for Web developers or Wilcom API customers with only ...
How to create Production-ready Embroidery Lettering with Wilcom API?
How to create Production-ready Embroidery Lettering with Wilcom API? INTRODUCTION Let’s imagine that we are selling garments on our website that are made of 4 different fabrics. We have FLEECE jumpers, WOOL jackets, SILK blouses and POLYESTER-COTTON ...
Explanation of the concept of Autodigitizing in Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio
Explanation of the concept of Autodigitizing in Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio In the Wilcom Web API service “AutoDigitizing” uses the software functionality developed in the Wilcom EmbroideryStudio software. This document focuses on bitmap images that is ...
How different are Embroidery Fonts from Printing Fonts?
Q: How different are Embroidery Fonts from Printing Fonts? This article may be useful for those API customers and software developers who come from printing technology background and are not familiar with embroidery. Simple Answer: Printing fonts can ...
Example for using the EditDesign API call
USE CASE We have a Golf Club customer and we want to provide a service, so Club members and friends can order their embroidered Polo Shirts or other branded garments and merchandise and personalise them with their own names or for their family ...
About Embroidery Formats
In the Wilcom Web API service most API calls return an “embroidery” file. This Article provides background information on this topic. NATIVE AND MACHINE FORMATS Wilcom developed a “native” internal embroidery design format in EmbroideryStudio, called ...
Rules and Recommendations for Uploading Fonts
INTRODUCTION The Wilcom API service offers customers who want to use their own specific fonts, a “font upload” service. For this, Wilcom engineers test the user-supplied fonts and make sure that they can be handled by the API Embroidery Engine ...
What Api calls are AutoDigitizing and why such call is not included in Standard API Plans?
Q: What Api calls are AutoDigitizing and why such call is not included in Standard API Plans? In the Wilcom Web API service “AutoDigitizing” means that An image (bitmap or vector) is uploaded to the Wilcom Embroidery Engine and a Stitch file (a ...