I was a great advocate of creating rtf reports, manipulating them, and then saving as either pdf or doc. But recently I have noticed a deterioration in output of rtf reports. As always, the images have to be manipulated every time - some years ago I worked on a macro which Alistair Lack improved upon which more or less automates that task (centring the images, removing the words Caption and Description). However, recently I have noticed some very strange output regarding some source superscript numbers (something like up\005 - can't quite remember off-hand) - note, some, not all, but happened in every rtf report generated. Also, there is the ongoing problem that the source citations for any notes appear in a separate list after the index. All in all, rtf reports were more trouble than they were worth. Now I only use them as a means of identifying spelling / typo / grammatical errors which I go back into Legacy to correct before finally creating a pdf report in Legacy. The output is certainly the most pleasing. I did try using a free on-line pdf-to-word converter (create your pdf, send it to the converter, get back a word or rtf document which you can then edit) and I thought that was the answer - however I discovered that if I removed slabs of text - such as repeated events of a duplicate person - I was left with a blank section, i.e. the empty space wasn't taken up by following text. However, the footers DID move up the page! Go figure! Now, I just put up with repeated information. While on that theme though, I wish Legacy could just put the name of a duplicated person and omit the events the second time round.
(This thread now seems to bear little relevance to the subject - married names still showing - although I know it has evolved from that discussion.) Cheers Jan -----Original Message----- From: Gene Young [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Married names still showing although husband invisible On 6/12/2010 12:27 AM, CE Wood wrote: > It may not be a bug. The marriage is invisible, the former spouse is > invisible, yet the married name persists. Want a way to make that invisible > too. > > Acrobat allows the creator of a PDF can make the PDF editable. Legacy just > needs to make them editable. > > > With respect, PDF files are NOT editable. You may manipulate them in a limited fashion but they are designed to be not editable. When changes are required in a PDF they must be made in the native document then re-saved as a new PDF document. That said, you can edit a PDF in a round-about way. Obtain Open Office, down load the pdf editing extension and you can, with some effort, open and edit the PDF as a an Open Office Draw document. That document can then be saved as a new PDF document. Personally I would save all my reports as RTF's then, when I was happy with the formatting, save them as PDF's. Legacy is a Genealogy program which has some nice reports, not a report generating program with mediocre genealogy features. I think it is the best genealogy program available which also has the best compromise as a report generator. With this in mind, experiment with some RTF reports and see if you can't create exactly what you want, which will probably be different from what someone else may desire. -- Gene Young Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada With Legacy Family Tree 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
