I was able to download a PES program reader and the file is there. but to describe the problem a little better... i have the PED-Basic. I had a company digitize the image and make it a PES file. (are there different PES files?) i placed the file into the PED to transfer it to an original card. the PED program said there was no sew file on in the folder.
I know that a lot of softwares do not recognize version 7 .pes. I use "professional" digitizing software for digitizing my designs but I like to use PE Design for lettering because it does a much better job on truetype fonts. But if I save as a version 7, my "professional" software will not open or import the file. It basically comes up with a message that stitch data is not there. But if I save down as a version 6, it doesn't have problems with it.
Thanks you all have been a great help. the downgrade to version 4 helped. i also did a pe-basic update from brother and it the transfer program now recognizes it.
I'm glad to hear you got it to work.It always amazes me that we have to decrease technical advances to make some things work. This is common is so many area's other than Embroidry. .... JB
sorry for bring old post up. but my wife is haveing problem getting a .pes file to the ped basic. she bought them off a embroidery web site. they are in a zip file when i got to extract them to the ped basic it give a error. can some one help me. thanks
need help with brother pes file to PED-Basic 
