Mary: That could work! I understand what you are saying but would also like to see the sample report.
cathyv...@cox.net Cathy Vallevieni Orange County, CA At 11:34 AM 1/3/2010, you wrote: >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" <cathyv...@cox.net> > > > >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:cathyv...@cox.net] > >Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:31 AM > >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > >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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > > >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > > >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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > >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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > >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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
