Hi Linda, I can't answer your first question as I have no idea what "smart stories" are.
Legacy Reports can be saved as RTFs and then edited. The preferred picture for an event can be included or just a note giving you the link. You can take a look at this for yourself in the Book Reports. The Legacy Publishing Centre is a Deluxe feature. In this you can either reserve pages for work you've done in a word processor or add text based special sections as well as a whole range of the reports. This can all be saved to RTF for further editing if desired. Saving reports as PDFs is a Deluxe feature. However, any report can be printed to PDF if you have a PDF printer installed on your computer. There are many free PDF printers available. This is a good place to ask questions however the Legacy User Group on Facebook is worth a look. This list is fairly quiet since the Facebook Group began. Its very busy currently with FTM people exploring Legacy options. Enjoy Legacy, Cathy Linda wrote: > > I am one of the many who were using FTM and have to find another solution. > > The main factors in deciding for me will probably be related to the > reports and book publishing options. I've downloaded the free Legacy > but since some of it is disabled I haven't been able to determine if > the book publishing and reports do what I need. > > 1. Is there anything comparable to FTM's smart stories in Legacy? > > 2. In the text report can I insert pictures? If not is there a report > where I can basically type a few paragraphs of information with at > least some basic formatting options (font, font size, center or left > alignment) and also add a few photos that I can size/resize as I want. > > 3. Can I make a report, save it, and then add it to a book? (FTM does > not do this) I would like to be able to take the saved report make a > few changes to it and save it as another report, thus creating two > reports. > > 4. Can I export the entire book to pdf? > > 5. Can I export the book to an editable format (such as RTF)? > > I have two books that I created in FTM. I spent a lot of time on these > creating many pages that have historical information and photos - such > as specific battles in the Civil War or American Revolution, historic > buildings or events and brief history of them along with them. I am > very unhappy to have to start over at all with these but I want to > make sure I get a program that will do what I want. > > The genealogy reports and charts are probably fine but I need to be > able to make pages with one or two photos that I insert and some text > that I type. I don't really want to make them in another program and > insert them later as this is fiddly and more steps. I need to be able > to export the entire thing as a pdf, indexed with page numbers. > > I didn't find a forum for Legacy FT. I hope this is the right place to > ask these questions. > > TY! > > Linda > > > <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > 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 > Linda <mailto:[email protected]> > Thursday, 10 December 2015 10:32 PM > > I am one of the many who were using FTM and have to find another solution. > > The main factors in deciding for me will probably be related to the > reports and book publishing options. I've downloaded the > free Legacy but since some of it is disabled I haven't been able to > determine if the book publishing and reports do what I need. > > 1. Is there anything comparable to FTM's smart stories in Legacy? > > 2. In the text report can I insert pictures? If not is there a report > where I can basically type a few paragraphs of information with at > least some basic formatting options (font, font size, center or left > alignment) and also add a few photos that I can size/resize as I want. > > 3. Can I make a report, save it, and then add it to a book? (FTM does > not do this) I would like to be able to take the saved report make a > few changes to it and save it as another report, thus creating two > reports. > > 4. Can I export the entire book to pdf? > > 5. Can I export the book to an editable format (such as RTF)? > > I have two books that I created in FTM. I spent a lot of time on > these creating many pages that have historical information and photos > - such as specific battles in the Civil War or American Revolution, > historic buildings or events and brief history of them along with > them. I am very unhappy to have to start over at all with these but I > want to make sure I get a program that will do what I want. > > The genealogy reports and charts are probably fine but I need to be > able to make pages with one or two photos that I insert and some text > that I type. I don't really want to make them in another program and > insert them later as this is fiddly and more steps. I need to be able > to export the entire thing as a pdf, indexed with page numbers. > > I didn't find a forum for Legacy FT. I hope this is the right place > to ask these questions. > > TY! > > Linda > > > <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> > > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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