Paula, If you are in the Media Gallery and you double click the pdf it will open the pdf up in Adobe Reader. You are correct in that the contents of the pdf will not print in reports. There are a couple of workarounds for this. You can save the report as a rich text file and open it in MS Word (or equivalent) and then copy and paste or insert the pdf where you want it (later version of MS Word can actually open pdfs where you can edit them). If you are doing a book in the Publishing Center you can insert a place holder for the pdf and then you can pull the place holder pages and insert the pdf later.
Ed, There is one thing I would like to mention and I really should have mentioned it early. The story that the man wrote, you might have some copyright issues unless he gave you permission to copy it in its entirety, especially if you are planning on printing it as part of your own research. Even if he gave you permission to use it in its entirety, you still need to make sure that you give him proper credit for it (source citation). Michele Technical Support <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com> www.LegacyFamilyTree.com From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 5:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Lengthy notes in Legacy 8 Michele, I have been "away" from the group for a few months, but does Legacy now allow you to view/open PDF files within the app? Ed, I was going to suggest you copy/paste the text of the story into the Notes of an EVENT, rather than the General Notes. If the story is in a separate file, it won't show up in any of your reports. (as I understand report generation in Legacy) So, it depends on how you want to use the story in the future. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams _____ From: Michele/Support <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 9:20 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Lengthy notes in Legacy 8 Ed, This is just personal preference but if it is lengthy, I would save it as a pdf and attach it your grandfather instead of copying and pasting it into the General Notes field. Michele Technical Support [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.LegacyFamilyTree.com <http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com> On 21 Feb 2014 15:19, Ed Ladendorf wrote: > While online, I met a man who had been studying the Civil War for > years. He wrote a rather lengthy story that was likely to be a very > interesting true story of my great grandfather's experiences in the Civil War. > > It seems to me this story should be placed in the general notes > section, but I want to be sure I'm not mistaken about this. Or maybe > it really has no place at all being there?? It is possible that the > man he wrote about is not my great grandfather (because of spelling > variations), but has a high percentage of being him. If it should not > go in the general notes, where should it go? Thanks for any suggestions. 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 <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). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
