I create ancestor & Descendant reports frequently for various cousins, and use the PDF's "as is" from Legacy (including doing any necessary editing in Legacy) for two reasons. First, the RTF comes out not looking nicely formatted like the PDF, and it's a lot of work to resize pictures for consistency, and reformat all the paragraphs etc. Second, if it is "fixed" to look nice in Legacy, it will already be nice for the next report.
For my dad's cousin (turning 100 this month) I did a Descendants report from her grandfather as a birthday present. This was an "as is" PDF out of Legacy, printed in color & bound. It was MUCH nicer than a chart, more readable, includes events and makes a very nice present. To encourage all the cousins to send info & pictures, I sent an "Ancestors of" present for each kid whose info & picture I got, which helped make the book complete and cost me nothing as I e-mailed PDF files and let them do the printing. Preview a few generations of various reports and you'll see. My main use for other reports is for help in research, so the "as is" PDF is always fine. Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 7:38 AM To: LegacyUserGroup Subject: [LegacyUG] Most used narrative reports I am curious as to which Legacy "narrative/book" reports are most used as generated by Legacy or found to be most useable by experienced Legacy users. Do any users print these narratives as created, or are these raw reports usually transferred to a word processor where they are extensively re-edited or even re-written. I ask because many of the legacy created sentences read so awkwardly (no fault of Legacy, a computer generated text can only do so much) that I wonder if it is really useful to take the time to create alternative sentences in Legacy or just send the material to Word where the reports can be re-written in good English. Jeff Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
