Forgive me if this sounds like rediscovering the wheel. I am an amateur preparing our own family histories, and am suddenly quite upbeat about a way that I have stumbled on to create reader-friendly books for our relatives.
My current task is to collect individual Pdf printed reports into a book of my wife's ancestors. I select her family file and open an Individual Report, select "lined" then UNcheck "General Notes" from Report Options. Next I check Include Chronology Pages from the main panel. To avoid General Notes appearing in both the Individual Report and the embedded Chronology Pages, I had to UNcheck General Notes from the Individual Report; they cannot be hidden in the Chronology Pages; at least I can't see the option to do so, otherwise I would do reverse unchecking.
I introduce each Individual Report with inserted text pages that say, for example, "Mother,", "Father," "Maternal Grandfather", etc.and maybe a few comments. The result, with an image and the chronology addition to complement General Notes, seems to me very clean and easy-to-follow. I'm leaning this way because I've noticed that program-generated books and some other reports have a cluttered, reader-unfriendly look to untrained eyes (everyone in our families), although I understand that many people would appreciate them (I created a few myself, for the record).
If anyone can think of an even-simpler way to achieve what I'm looking for - or spots a disadvantage- I'd be most grateful to hear about it.
Leroy
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