“Is there anyway to get Legacy charts onto a MS Doc or something different?”
I figured out the same problem for myself. In Legacy Charting 7 (similar in Legacy) you CAN save in different formats. The most useful to email is probably pdf. Here is how: 1. In Legacy Charting click on the main icon top left 2. Click Save As 3. At the bottom of the new window, choose Save as type: and you bomb out! There are no alternatives there. That does not work. Weird. Now I remember! 1. Click on “Publish” 2. Export to File 3. Choose jpg in the new window (better for charts than a pdf) 4. Select destination folder and enter your own file name 5. Click OK. My problem went further. I wanted different colours in a family chart, to illustrate different branches by DNA mutations. To do that I right click on the file name in windows, and I select “Open with….” And then open the jpg chart with “Paint”. Then I used the “paint” program to colour in the squares in the jpg image. It worked like a charm. There was another area in which I had to be cunning. Some charts will not show only the direct line of descent to specified descendants. The chat shows every one of all the siblings in every generation. That really clutters the page with masses of useless siblings. I solved that by creating a new tree, a duplicate of the one I was working in, and from the duplicate I simply deleted all the unwanted siblings until I had only the people I wanted in my chart in the family tree. Then I printed the chart I wanted. Next week I shall have to repeat the process, but with a very much larger group of people. I have already decided to tag all the ones I want, and then to export all the tagged ones in a gedcom. The nuisance of this is that I have to search out and individually tag fifty people and their direct paternal ancestors only – each one by hand. Legacy can certainly work on defining the parameters of groups more specifically. The boolean stuff is a bit too thin in the current search facility of Legacy. I compare the stuff we have now to the eighties, and my mind boggles at the thought of the software our grandchildren will use! Regards, Francois _____________ Francois Greeff 36 Aston Road London SW20 8BE United Kingdom Phone: 0044 20 8123 4224 Mobile 0044 79 6372 2345 Skype: Greefffrancois Greeff Family Web Site: (www.Greeff.info) The Greeff Family Web site is temporarily OFF the internet while I repair the great damage done by hackers. I hope to have the web site up and running in January. From: Michele S [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 24 January 2010 19:29 To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy Charting into MS DOC Is there anyway to get these charts onto a MS Doc or something different? i can only print the chart and I want to email it to my family. Thank you, I am new :) 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
