Pictures can be inserted into Word documents where you can also annotate or explain them. Therefore an option for books (including printed ones) appears to be:
Use Legacy “Publish Centre” to organise chapters and use the “Place Holder” option for Word documents which are to be inserted after saving the book as an RTF, then as Word. The whole thing could then be saved as a PDF. This would require more playing around but may produce a great result. John From: Cathy Pinner Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 11:27 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Questions about reports in Legacy 8 Linda, You can share events in Legacy so if your Battle of Cowpens event was shared, it would report all the people it was shared with. But I don't think that is what you are describing. To add the pages you refer to, you'd have to add them in an RTF version of the report. You can change fonts and have different fonts for different elements BUT you need to either use PDF or RTF to preserve them. A plain text file (.txt) obviously has a font but just one. Currently in the Publishing Centre you can add Chapters of Special text but it is just text - no pics. Take a look at the HELP. Search the Help Index for Publishing The options for editing PDF files increase all the time. You used to have to have the full Adobe PDF. There are alternatives now. Legacy has great reporting options but ultimately, it's a family histo ry database, not a fully fledged word processor. Since Legacy 8 Deluxe is currently selling for $19.95 perhaps its worth the investment. OR recover your Legacy 7. You can download it again (look for a previous versions link on the Download page) and the sales staff at Legacy would give you your Customer Code to unlock the deluxe features again if you've lost that. There have been some change to reports between 7 and 8 but not substantial ones to do with the questions you are asking. You can have Legacy 7 and 8 installed on a computer at the same time. Legacy 7 installs to a different place. Do not install Legacy 7 into Program files. Legacy 8 is installed into Program Files by default Cathy Linda wrote: Lets say I have an event - The Battle of Cowpens with a description of that battle and a picture - and I have more than one person that was in that battle. I would like a page in my book t hat shows that picture and the description of the event, and possibly tells all of the people that were involved in that event. I want the page titled "Battle of the Cowpens" I have several of these in my FTM book that are in the beginning of the book - not with any particular person. I have other "events" such as historic churches that many people in my tree went to and a page on historic events such as "The Great Fire of Chicago" that I don't need attached to any particular person but I need to put a picture (or two) and some information about the event. I had Legacy Deluxe 7.x a few years back. I don't have it on my computer now so I can't remember exactly what it did or didn't do. I don't want to buy 8 Deluxe until I'm sure it's what I want. It seems like in 7 if I used a text report I couldn't change the font, enlarge fonts or change text alignment. Forgive me if I remembering wrong. But can I do th ose things in 8? I downloaded 8 free but much is disabled and I haven't had time to examine everything that I'm curious about yet. I know there are workarounds (creating blank pages, making pages in another program) but I send this pdf book out often and I like it to be current with any new information and I would like to just be able to go to the book publishing and export to pdf and it be complete...I'm not even sure how I'd add pages from another program into a pdf that was created with Legacy :-) Thanks for the responses in helping me make my decision. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Leon Chapman" <chap...@gmail.com <mailto:chap...@gmail.com>> To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Sent: 12/10/2015 9:03:45 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Questions about reports in Legacy 8 Linda: I have published 4 genealogy family hard cover books of over 300 pages each. I am currently in the process of publishing another family book. When you get ready, I can send you information about how I published my books with all the steps. Here are some of the answers to your questions: >>>1. Is there anything comparable to FTM's smart stories in Legacy? *I don't know anything about smart stories in FTM - so cannot comment* >>>2. In the text report can I insert pictures? If not is there a report where I can basically type a few paragraphs of information with at least some basic formatting options (font, font size, center or left alignment) and also add a few photos that I can size/resize as I want. *You can attach one picture to an event and it will then be published in the report. Many people in my database have 15-20 events with pictures (baby, 1st grade, 8th grade, high school, militar y, family, 50 anniversary are example events that I have used and attach pictures to them). I have also include a scrapbook of pictures that relate to a specific person as part of the report. If you have 20 pictures attached to a person, you can choose to print all of those pictures or just a select few based upon Tagging of the pictures.* >>>3. Can I make a report, save it, and then add it to a book? (FTM does not do this) I would like to be able to take the saved report make a few changes to it and save it as another report, thus creating two reports. *In Legacy's Publisher, you can create chapters of the book and arrange the chapter orders as you want. The organization of your book can be saved and then reloaded / reused, changed, or added to later. The reports are then generated on the fly from your chapter contents. Chapters can include: Ancestor Book, Descendant Book, Multiple li nes of Descendants, Descendant narrative, Ancestor Chart, Descendant Chart,, Family Group Record, Individual Report, Timeline, placeholder pages (blank pages that you can later edit and insert whatever you want), Origins report, migration report and others.* >>>4. Can I export the entire book to pdf? *The report outputs can be: Text file, HTML file, Rich Text file and PDF file.* * * >>>5. Can I export the book to an editable format (such as RTF)? *The report outputs can be: Text file, HTML file, Rich Text file and PDF file.* *Legacy has the best report options of any genealogy software. It lets the user control and change almost anything as to what is or isn't included. Sourcing and indexing can be included, headers and footers, page numbering are all part of the reporting options.* *In my opinion, Legacy Family Tree is the Best genealogy program available today.* *Chap * ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com <mailto:chap...@gmail.com> ----- On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Linda <keechival...@gmail.com <mailto:keechival...@gmail.com>> wrote: I am one of the many who were using FTM and have to find another solution. The main factors in deciding for me will probably be related to the reports and book publishing options. I've downloaded the free Legacy but since some of it is disabled I haven't been able to determine if the book publishing and reports do what I need. 1. Is there anything comparable to FTM's smart stories in Legacy? 2. In the text report can I insert pictures? If not is there a rep ort where I can basically type a few paragraphs of information with at least some basic formatting options (font, font size, center or left alignment) and also add a few photos that I can size/resize as I want. 3. Can I make a report, save it, and then add it to a book? (FTM does not do this) I would like to be able to take the saved report make a few changes to it and save it as another report, thus creating two reports. 4. Can I export the entire book to pdf? 5. Can I export the book to an editable format (such as RTF)? I have two books that I created in FTM. I spent a lot of time on these creating many pages that have historical information and photos - such as specific battles in t he Civil War or American Revolution, historic buildings or events and brief history of them along with them. I am very unhappy to have to start over at all with these but I want to make sure I get a program that will do what I want. The genealogy reports and charts are probably fine but I need to be able to make pages with one or two photos that I insert and some text that I type. I don't really want to make them in another program and insert them later as this is fiddly and more steps. I need to be able to export the entire thing as a pdf, indexed with page numbers. I didn't find a forum for Legacy FT. I hope this is the right place to ask these questions. TY! 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