If you are using Legacy charting - you can always "grab" one entire branch (see the selection options along the left edge - some allow you to move individual boxes, some individual generations, some allow you to move individual branches, etc) and shift all of that branch (in and up), and grab another branch and shift it in and down, etc. In other words, re-arrange the branches to bunch them up. It will (in my opinion) be less "readable", but you can probably squeeze stuff in tighter by using up more of the "unused white space" in your chart.
OR If you are doing Ancestor charts, try playing with the different options (standard, overlap, perfect, upward) to see which take up less paper. OR Also may want to play with what data you show and/or what type of "boxes" you use. Maybe you can eliminate something that isn't "critical" to make the chart smaller, or make the boxes/lines less fancy to shrink the chart. If you are including pictures, maybe you want to drop the pictures (ouch!). Maybe you can do an index with the pictures but have the charts without pictures? OR Split it up - instead of doing a single Ancestor (or Descendant) focused one one person. Instead do a series of Hourglass charts. For example: Current: one chart, Descendant focused on great grandpa New: Several charts, Hourglass, each focused on a different "Mom/Dad", going up 2 gens (to catch Great Grandpa) and down several gens to catch the grand kids. The disadvantage - it isn't one big chart so some of the relationships aren't as easy to visualize. People will usually end up on multiple charts. The advantage - you may end up including more people in the older generations. You may have to play with it to figure out which generation to focus on (I'd suggest all the charts have a focus on the same generation for easier comprehension). You may also want to do one chart focused on husband and one focused on the wife (to get each side of the grand and great-grand parents). You MAY want to hand write big "connection" symbols to make it easier to visually "connect" the different charts??? Not sure how well that would work - it may add more confusion and tackiness than is worth. For example, on every chart where husband's great grandpa(?) shows up, but a big A inside a blue circle next to that great grandpa. Then on every chart where wife's great grandpa shows up, but a big B inside a red circle next to that great grandpa. Etc. Again, you'd have to play with this - not sure if the "connection" symbols should be near the great grandpa, or just at the grandpa level, or . . . ??? You would NOT want to do that for EVERY person - just pick a few key people that would be on many charts that would help to "tie the charts together". Good luck! Bob On 07/07/2012 09:02, Alan Pereira wrote: > Ron, > There is only one screen, just very very large. > I would think that printing a pdf 200 inches wide would be a waste of paper > let alone one 5 times that size. I just assumed Ila Johnson wanted the > ability to view such a tree (as do I). > > Alan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 07 July 2012 12:36 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Ref: Wall Charts > > Alan, > > I Would suggest that that is different, as you will only be zooming one > screen at a time - even if you scroll. Did you ever try printing to 900 > inches? > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co uk/ > > "Alan Pereira" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The limit may be 200 inches but the Amyuni PDF Converter 2.10b that >> came with Family Tree Maker 2005 allowed you to shrink the font/graphics to >> fit within the 200 inch limit. It produced a PDF which was unreadable >> unless you used the zoom feature in the PDF viewer programs to expand the >> size up to a readable format. This allowed you to create a descendant tree >> that in Legacy would be 900+ inches wide. (I'm not sure there is a limit) I >> still export from Legacy back to FTM2005 via gedcom in order to achieve >> these capabilities. I have to use Virtual PC and XP Mode to run this in a >> Windows 7 64 bit environment. >> >> Alan Pereira >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 06 July 2012 16:48 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ref: Wall Charts >> >> >> >> Brian, >> >> No argument from me! I know it's one or the other or both :-) >> >> Ron Ferguson >> http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brian/Support >> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 4:31 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ref: Wall Charts >> >> It is my understanding that the 200 inch limitation is imposed by Windows. >> Adobe only conforms to the Windows limitation. >> >> Brian >> Customer Support >> Millennia Corporation >> [email protected] >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com >> >> We are changing the world of genealogy! >> When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. >> Thanks. >> >> On 06/07/2012 07:47, Ron Ferguson wrote: >>> Alan, >>> >>> It is my understanding that it is Adobe what sets this limit. >>> >>> Ron Ferguson >>> http://www.fergys.co.uk/ >> >> >> > 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). > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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