data processed by the embroidery data processing device the disk controller 6 is connected to a hard disk drive 13 which stores programs to be executed by the cpu 2 for operating embroidery data processing newly created embroidery data and the like when the embroidery data processing device is turned on a program loader stored in the rom 3 controls the disk controller 6 to load the programs stored in the hard disk drive 13 into the ram 4 then the cpu 2 is ready to execute the loaded programs to perform various embroidery data processing in the following description the embroidery data processing operation is described when embroidery data for the 34 flower 34 shown in fig1 is processed with reference to a flowchart shown in fig5 it is assumed that the embroidery data representing the figure i e the flower shown in fig1 has been stored in a predetermined area of the ram 4 as input through the mouse 9 keyboard 10 or from the hard disk drive 13 fig6 shows a table representing a data structure of the embroidery data for the pattern i e the flower shown in fig1 note that in the table shown in fig6 only data related to the areas r0 r2 are shown in order for simplifying description and in practice data for the areas r3 r5 should.