The image file (.jpg) can be printed as part of the source citation in reports. A PDF file or .doc file cannot be printed as part of a Legacy Report.
Most PDF will be a standard page size (usually A4, except for those in the USA) and I guess that might be a problem when incorporating into a (Legacy) report; images can be resized - maybe that happens in Legacy reports? Or, they can be nudged into an appropriate position on a page via various text-display methods (RTF, Microsoft Word, the various web page formatting methods). But I find that PDF files are by far the most useful for me - and wish that Legacy handled their incorporation into its output products. There are many free PDF programmes, if one wants to choose one - and Windows "knows" which is your default programme. In Windows 10, the free Edge browser - whether you like to use it as your "default browser" or not - will be the default programme for opening PDF files if you haven't installed some other PDF-reading programme - and does it well. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Leon Chapman Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2018 1:24 AM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Document or Image? The image file (.jpg) can be printed as part of the source citation in reports. A PDF file or .doc file cannot be printed as part of a Legacy Report. Sent from my iPhone Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com<mailto:chap...@gmail.com> > On Jul 10, 2018, at 9:25 AM, Jenny M Benson > <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk<mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk>> wrote: > > I watched a Watch Geoff Live webinar recording last night, in which Geoff was > creating a Source Citation for a Probate File he had found on-line. When it > came to "Add Media" to the Citation, Geoff selected "Picture" and one of the > webinar watchers asked why he had not selected "Document." I thought it > worth expanding on the answer which Geoff gave as it is probably something > which arises quite often. > > I guess the enquirer was confused because the media was, in fact, "a > document"! But in the case of Legacy Citations, the word "document" has a > rather specific meaning relating to the file format, not to the nature of the > Source item itself. > > We usually refer to any paper file as "a document" but once it has been > filmed or scanned or photographed, the resulting medium can be saved in one > of two ways: either as "an image", most commonly named filename.jpg or > filename.tif, or as "a document", most commonly named filename.pdf or > filename.doc or with another extension relating to word processing software. > > To me, the biggest advantage of attaching an image (usually ,jpg) rather than > a document (usually .pdf) to a Source Citation is that an image file can be > viewed within Legacy, whereas in order to view a document file, it has to be > opened in an external program, such as a word processor or PDF viewer. > -- > Jenny M Benson > http://jennygenes.blogspot.co.uk/ > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
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