Please send me a copy also. Thanks [email protected] Mary Fowler Leek 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" <[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 >> >>
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