Thanks, Leon, for answering Linda's questions. This is all helpful to know. Barton
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Leon Chapman wrote: Linda: I have published 4 genealogy family hard cover books of over 300 pages each. I am currently in the process of publishing another family book. When you get ready, I can send you information about how I published my books with all the steps. Here are some of the answers to your questions: >>> 1. Is there anything comparable to FTM's smart stories in Legacy? I don't know anything about smart stories in FTM - so cannot comment >>> 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. You can attach one picture to an event and it will then be published in the report. Many people in my database have 15-20 events with pictures (baby, 1st grade, 8th grade, high school, military, family, 50 anniversary are example events that I have used and attach pictures to them). I have also include a scrapbook of pictures that relate to a specific person as part of the report. If you have 20 pictures attached to a person, you can choose to print all of those pictures or just a select few based upon Tagging of the pictures. >>> 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. In Legacy's Publisher, you can create chapters of the book and arrange the chapter orders as you want. The organization of your book can be saved and then reloaded / reused, changed, or added to later. The reports are then generated on the fly from your chapter contents. Chapters can include: Ancestor Book, Descendant Book, Multiple lines of Descendants, Descendant narrative, Ancestor Chart, Descendant Chart,, Family Group Record, Individual Report, Timeline, placeholder pages (blank pages that you can later edit and insert whatever you want), Origins report, migration report and others. >>> 4. Can I export the entire book to pdf? The report outputs can be: Text file, HTML file, Rich Text file and PDF file. >>> 5. Can I export the book to an editable format (such as RTF)? The report outputs can be: Text file, HTML file, Rich Text file and PDF file. Legacy has the best report options of any genealogy software. It lets the user control and change almost anything as to what is or isn't included. Sourcing and indexing can be included, headers and footers, page numbering are all part of the reporting options. In my opinion, Legacy Family Tree is the Best genealogy program available today. Chap ___ Leon Chapman [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ----- On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Linda <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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! 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