Kathy, If I wish to add items additional to that which Legacy was designed for I would use a wordprocessor. As Dennis implies, Legacy can build very presentable reports and books of a simple construction, but for more than that it does have limitations, and rather than play around trying to get them right I use OpenOffice Writer for more complex presentations.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ Kathy Meyer wrote: > "...Of course, you can always dump the report to RTF > and use a word processor to fix it up, but that can be a tedious > process." > > If I wanted to add some historical details or other items to make it > read more easily and be more interesting, would I do that in a word > processor rather than Legacy? > > I will play in the publishing center today; thank you > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Dennis M. Kowallek > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:19:32 -0700, Kathy Meyer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone used Legacy to create a book? >> >> I would suggest playing around with the Legacy Publishing Center. I >> certainly wouldn't use it to create a real "professional" book. But I >> have used it to create a book on one family line which I donated to >> the Fort Wayne Library. I sent them the .pdf and they printed two >> bound hardcover copies. The library kept one and sent me the other. >> >> One problem with using Legacy to produce the books ... if you run >> across a bug (or something you don't like) you are at the mercy of >> the programmers to fix it. Of course, you can always dump the report >> to RTF and use a word processor to fix it up, but that can be a >> tedious process. >> >> -- >> >> Dennis Kowallek (LTools) >> http://zippersoftware.com/ltools >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools >> 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
