Elizabeth: Here is how I have published 3 large books using Legacy. It is probably more detail that you want, but maybe you can try out some of the ideas. The plain text messes all of the indents below -- if you want a Word Document of this, email me.
How to Publish a Book using Legacy By Leon D. Chapman [email protected] There are several ways of publishing a book in Legacy Family Tree. Here is an example of how I published three family books of over 300 pages each that worked for me. 1. Pre-book creation steps. a. Be sure to update all your events and people with as many old photos as you can. (It is best to attach photos to the Events for individuals and to marriage events for family pictures.) b. Write an Introduction Section for your book that tells something about yourself, your family line (particularly the oldest family member in your family line), and a brief overview of what the book includes and how it is organized. Normally, this could be done is a few pages using your favorite Word Processor. I found that I needed to make changes to this section several times before my book was finalized, so keeping this in a Word processing file is the easiest was to make changes and copy it back into Legacy with the new changes in place. c. Create any Legacy charts or other material that you want to include in your book and save these into a Word Processing file (e.g., Microsoft Word). I placed these at the back of the book before source pages began. You will need to count these pages and insert blank pages for these when producing the book in Legacy. I had anywhere from 10 to 70 additional pages that I had to account for in my books by using blank pages in Legacy. You will need to enter the Chapter Header for each of these blank page Chapters in your book. Examples of these were 1) Fathers Ancestry Tree (2 pages) starting with my grandson, 2) an Ancestry Chart starting with my grandson (9 pages), 3) Some Descendant charts for great grandfathers (these are normally 2-6 pages each –I just went back generations where I had pictures and did descendant charts for 4 great grandparents), and 4) leave pages for Famous Ancestors of you and your spouse. In one of my books, I had to leave about 70 blank pages that I later inserted using a Word processor. 2. The steps for Legacy Book publication are as follows using the Publisher: a. Start report by going to Reports, and then Publishing Center. b. Create the following Chapters in your book: i. Descendant for your oldest ancestor in your primary family line (Chapman) down to and including the youngest generation. You could include Descendants of other Ancestors, but the book will get very large quickly, so I would suggest sticking to a one or two family name book. 1. In the Descendant report options, include Event information, Event pictures, birth and general notes for everyone. ii. Picture Scrapbook of a family – start about 3-4 generations above yourself in the primary family line (Chapman) – the generation would depend on having old pictures of gggrandfather/mother. 1. Use 2 or 4 pictures per page and include Description and Date as part of picture in report options 2. Select the specific individual and spouse for Picture Scrapbook 3. Include individual pictures, individual event pictures, marriage pictures and marriage event pictures. This is a nice chapter of just pictures of the couple and their family and the event pictures in their life. iii. Family Group Record 1. Use same couple as in ii above 2. Include pictures of husband and wife and children iv. Family Picture Tree 1. Use male person say at your 3-4th generation – same as in ii above 2. Use 4 generations 3. This chapter will help you determine which generation to start with – you will need at least a picture of this person and maybe the prior generation father and mother v. Chronology Report 1. Include individual events, marriage events, children and death of children, wife and parents 2. Include some timelines to make this interesting a. US Wars b. US Presidents vi. Repeat Chapters ii thru v above for each primary male descendant from where you started in Chapter ii above. (Note: You may also want to use a particular family and create these chapters for father and mother, and then each child. These chapters will be the most interesting and will include lots of pictures of many of the living people in your family.) 1. This will normally be about 4 generations, since you will run out of pictures for the family and the chapters are less interesting without pictures 2. Include Chapters for your children since you will have lots of pictures of them vii. Create / Insert any Blank pages for a Legacy Chart, famous relatives or whatever you want to include that is not part of the standard Legacy Publishing center 1. You will need to Create a Title for each of these Chapters in the book 2. You may have several of these Chapters but I would suggest you keep this to a minimum – 3-6. c. In the Publisher, Additional Tab, you will want the following Sections: i. Title Page ii. Copyright Notice Page iii. Maybe a Dedication Page iv. Maybe a Preface Page v. An Introduction Section (your will copy this from your Word Processing Document into this Section) vi. A Source Chapter 1. As endnotes at end of all chapters 2. Include master source pictures vii. An Index Chapter 1. Include Name, birth & death years, Uppercase SURNAMES 2. Use Two Column format 3. Use leaders …… 4. Start Index on Odd page (do this on all Sections & Chapters) d. Page Setup might be as follows: i. Top & Bottom margins – 0.7 inches ii. Left Margin – 1.1 inches iii. Right Margin – 0.8 inches 3. You will want to create a PDF file after you have reviewed your draft electronically using Legacy to produce the entire Book. a. Legacy will place Headers and Footers on each page if you desire and sequentially number all the pages i. It is important to account for the blank pages you want to insert charts, famous relatives, etc. due to the sequential page numbering that Legacy will use. ii. Suggest a Footer to include your name, address, phone, and email b. You have to create a PDF as the primary output from Legacy to include all the pictures and charts – an RTF file will not work. 4. Final book assembly (This is the tricky part) a. In my case, I had to purchase a PDF to Word (RTF) converter i. I have found the best one is Smart PDF ConverterPro 1. http://www.pdftodocconverterpro.com/ 2. Cost $70 – must have the Pro version ii. I have tested many converters and this one works perfectly 1. The charts, pictures and text of your report are very complex to convert correctly and this software works b. Using Smart PDF Converter Pro, convert your PDF book to Word (RTF) and then Save as a Word Document c. You will now manually insert the Chart pages and Famous people pages into the blank pages that Legacy created in your Book. i. Be sure to keep the page numbering and footers aligned like other pages ii. You may also have to delete a page or add a page at the front of the book by using PDF Converter Pro to break your document into two sections and then recombining them – hopefully, you will not need to do this step. This is to make each chapter start on right hand facing page of the book. Legacy sometimes has problems and be sure to check if all new Chapters start on a new page. d. The last step is to convert your Word Document to a PDF file using PDF Converter Pro. i. This is the final PDF file that you will need to upload to a publishing company for printing your book 5. Printing the Book a. Suggest you use the site: www.Lulu.com b. They will publish books very economically and will also help market and sell your book if desired c. The steps are easy to follow on their site for publishing i. Create an account ii. Go into their Publisher iii. Create name of your book iv. Upload your PDF file v. Create Book Cover 1. Front & Back 2. Suggest you use a picture on both front and back a. Review carefully how the book cover looks with the pictures b. The back cover is great for a large family picture vi. An example of pricing – 370 page book, 8x11, Color front and back hardback cover and black and white pages inside book costs about $25. A 785 page book costs about $35. vii. Books are printed and shipped in about 5-7 days by www.Lulu.com These were the steps that I used in published three books, the smallest was 370 pages and the largest was 785 pages. I hope these steps may help you in writing a book. ___ Leon Chapman [email protected] ----- On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:58 AM, elizabeth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you, Ron. I think my concept of what Legacy does has been wrong. I have > focused on the narrative book features thinking I could produce an actual > book but am finding that is not the case. I do think Legacy is a great > product and appreciate it very much. > > It isn't what I thought it was as far as making a family book but it is a > wonderful way to organize and store information. I know I will need to > continue with my .rtf file for the book, although I had hoped to find an > easier way in Legacy. > > I'm really hoping for ideas/suggestions from people on this list who have > actually created family books, using Legacy features, since I haven't quite > figured it out yet......... > > How did they enter their info into Legacy in such a way that it was quick and > easy to copy/paste into a .rtf file? > > How did they organize their book so it was understandable and easy to follow? > > Where do they enter photos so that they would appear with the person's data > in a book? > > How did they include 'branches' that are not part of their direct line? etc. > etc. > > I would never even attempt to create a family book without all the help found > in Legacy. > > Elizabeth > ================================================ 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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