Re: [LegacyUG] Complete Family Tree

Sun, 05 Jun 2016 06:07:43 -0700

Shirley there is a bug in Legacy Charting only for some people and you can't publish to a PDF. But if you have a PDF printer on your computer you can print to PDF. It's best to change to a suitable paper size for the chart though there are ways to put smaller PDF pages together and print a wall chart. However, since its wanted on a computer screen, choosing the right paper size would help. Does your client realise that for the number of people she can't see it all on the computer screen at once? 

Cathy

Shirley Brodt wrote:


Hi Sue,

Thanks for replying. I need the final format for emailing. My client
wants to email the chart to family members, but when I saved it as a
jpg and sent it to her, it was unreadable although it was very clear
on my computer. I tried to save it as a png, but that resulted in the
same problem. I also clicked on PDF, but for some reason, Legacy
didn't allow that format. I appreciate your having replied.

Shirley

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:51 PM, smm <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:

Our local shop Postal Connections (it's a franchise, so they are
everywhere) can print anything up to 3 ft wide and as long as you
want. I have printed a large chart with them. Be sure to check
your local shop to see the file formats they can deal with. I
exported as a PDF and had no problems.

Sue

Susan Wallace Masse
Stayton, Oregon


On 6/3/2016 5:31 AM, Shirley Brodt wrote:


Dear Stan,

Now that's one big family! Thanks for the information. It's
interesting that you used the Legacy charting instead of
TreeDraw. I also produced the Legacy chart, which spans several
pages, but the customer for whom I'm doing this work wants the 5
generations, with tons of offspring, on one page -- now that's a
problem that I'll figure out one way or another.

Thanks again for replying.

Shirley

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Stan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi Shirley

I have a family tree that covers 14 generations and over 5000
names. I have TreeDraw but I recently used the charting
within Legacy to produce the family tree with all names
including spouses on it for a family reunion. All on one
chart in 8pt font spreading many metres around 3 walls of a
large hall. I thought it better than charts I could get out
of TreeDraw for the purpose

We also used some nice charts from TreeDraw I should add

Its horses for courses

Cheers Stan

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Hi R G,

Thanks for replying. I'm working on five generations, but I
think I'll buy the TreeDraw Legacy program to ensure that an
attractive chart can be made.

Shirley

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 7:10 PM, R G Strong-genes
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Shirley,

How many individuals and generations are you talking
about that you want to chart?

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*Sent:*Thursday, June 02, 2016 7:03 PM

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*Subject:*Re: [LegacyUG] Complete Family Tree

Hi Leon,

Thank you for your advice. I tried the Legacy Charting
options, but for some reason only the current record
names appear. The only chart that works with all records
is the Descendant chart under Chart Reports, which
appearance is not what I'm looking for. I think I might
have to buy TreeDraw Legacy for all the entries to appear
properly. You say that none of the chart programs work
well, so I'm a bit confused. In my online search, the
solution that was shown was the TreeDraw program, in
which one could format the lines, fonts, colours, etc.
once it imports the data from Legacy. If you have a
chance, I'd appreciate your feedback on this.

Thanks again for taking the time to reply.

Shirley

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Leon Chapman
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Shirley

I think you are asking for something that you won't
like if you had it. My experience with any of the
charting programs, you will only be able to use maybe
4-5 generations and beyond that you are creating such
a large chart, you can't see or print it on any
reasonable size of paper or poster.

I have about 40,000 people in my database and
anything over about 4-5 generations is too large to
use. Some of my families go back 15-20 generations.
In Legacy, you can create a chart of Fathers only
that would span that many generations.

In Legacy, use the Legacy Charting icon to the right
of the Internet icon and you can plot lots of
different charts. I would suggest you try some of
those before purchasing other software.

In some of my testing of Legacy Charting, I have
created charts of over 100 generations. The problem
is, you cannot print that size of chart - it is just
a paper generator.

If you only have a few people in your database with
only 3-4 generations, then you could chart something
useful to be printed.

Anyway, just my thoughts, you won't be happy with
what you are asking for.

Chap

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sent from my iPad

Leon Chapman

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On Jun 2, 2016, at 2:30 PM, Shirley Brodt
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi Evelyn,

I have chart reports and other reports, but there
are no options for either. Thanks for getting
back to me.

Shirley

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Evelyn ..
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Have you tried the Legacy Charting options on
the Reports tab?

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Shirley
Brodt
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

I just purchased Legacy, and it seems
that I can't make a chart of all family
members in one chart. I checked online,
and I found that if I buy TreeDraw
Legacy, I could use that for all the info
in the Legacy data base. It seems like a
waste of money for a genealogy program to
not have the option to view the complete
family tree. Any ideas or advice are welcome.

Shirley





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