I would love to see it also. Patricia Thomas-Hill [email protected]
________________________________ From: Syble Glasscock <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 1:59:48 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and Pictures Cathy, this sounds like a great idea. I'd like to see this pdf also. My e-mail is [email protected] Thanks, Syble Glasscock --- On Sun, 1/3/10, Mary Fowler Leek <[email protected]> wrote: >From: Mary Fowler Leek <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and Pictures >To: [email protected] >Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 7:34 PM > > >Cathy, > >In order to organize your report with the notes at the beginning, just >create a new 'event' titled Notes and copy and paste your hard coded notes >into the event titled Notes. After that is done and you're sure you have the >notes section all copied, then delete the identical information from the >section of hard coded notes. This way, you can shift this new event all >around among the events so it will read and print as and where you'd like it >to within the report. With an event, you can also add in (attach) a photo. >While the photos usually are quite small (maybe someday we'll be allowed to >size them as we'd like) at least they add some interest to the events. > >If you'd like to see a report that I can produce using an event titled >notes, as well as some of the original named events, rather than using the >hard coded Notes, I'll create a short one in a pdf file, attach to an email >and send to you so you can see how I've used an event titled 'notes' to >write up some of my family history. This report can now be created in a >second or two and I can shift and edit to my hearts content, should I come >across more information or photo's I'd like to add to this family's history. > >Mary > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Cathy Vallevieni" <[email protected]> > > > >William & Charles: > >Thank you for your response to my posting. > >I have Adobe Acrobat Professional but it will not change the Legacy >PDF into OCR because the file contains the pictures I want to >retain. It will only change an all text file into OCR. > >I have Microsoft Word but .rtf loses the event pictures and .txt >loses all pictures + formatting. > >The reasoning for moving the Notes to the top is I've used that >section to write a Family Biography (a story-type summary of the full >history of the husband and wife and their life together with family >stories and remembrances and descriptions of the personalities of the >people--kinda like you would seen in a biography book). I'd like the >flow to be the overall summary of the people followed by the "facts >and events" for the husband followed by the "facts and events" for >the wife followed by the "facts and events" for the marriage. A >reader can just read the overall summary or can get into more detail >by reading the facts with the detail of the Census', occupation (some >with pictures like the store they owned or an ad they ran), >residences with pictures of the house they lived in, etc. > >I'm guessing what I want to do can't be done but thought I'd ask. > >I'm preparing for a family reunion and have books with sections for >each marriage/family and would like the sections to begin with this >report followed by the photos and all documents for the couple. > >Cathy Vallevieni >Orange County, CA > >At 03:12 AM 1/3/2010, you wrote: >>Cathy: >> >>I was going to mention PDF, but you said you can't change it to >>OCR. Adobe Acrobat (not the PDF Reader) has OCR capabilities within >>the program, but usually only for images that contain text. Sending >>a Legacy report to PDF should be all text anyway so no OCR needed >>for that and should retain all fonts. I don't know about PDF >>knockoff programs. I know Acrobat is a bit pricey though. >> >>The only other alternative is to use a word processor. If you don't >>have one, you can always download OpenOffice.org which is free and a >>full suite of office programs. Then to retain any special fonts and >>formatting, you can export it to PDF. >> >>I've found one of the best programs to have for genealogy is the >>full version of Acrobat because you can scan everything into PDFs >>and attach them to sources in Legacy. >> >>I don't really understand the reasoning for moving the notes section >>to the top. You mention it contains graphics. Are these source >>graphics? Are the notes Footnotes/Endnotes? Are you trying to make >>the report accessible by others so they can make their own changes? >> >>Bill Boswell >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Cathy Vallevieni [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:31 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and Pictures >> >>Is there a way to create a Family Group Report that retains the >>formatting and the individual & event pictures but has the ability to >>move the Notes to the beginning of the report? >> >>I tried .txt but that loses the pictures and the bold headlines and >>text (I know I can manually add the photos and change each headline >>and other text to bold but that's very time consuming for how many >>families I have). >> >>I tried .pdf but it can't be changed to OCR which is required for me >>to move the Notes section to the beginning of the report (I assume >>because there's pictures which are graphics?). >> >>I tried .html but I can't move the Notes section. >> >>If I copy it to the clipboard, it's a graphic of the report and I >>can't move the Notes section. >> >>I tried sending the Descendant and Descendant Narrative reports to >>.rtf but they do not contain the event pictures. >> >>If there's no way to do it, I'll use the Descendant Narrative in .rtf >>because it's the least changes but it doesn't look as nice as the >>Family Group Report. >> >>Thanks. >> >>Cathy Vallevieni >>Orange County, CA >> >>Legacy User Group guidelines: >> >> http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp >> >>Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >>Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >>Online technical support: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp >> >>To unsubscribe: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > >Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > > >Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
