Charles, would you be willing to share the forms that you referenced in the email below. I have Adobe Professional, but have not had the time to work with making forms, but is is something that I would love to be able to use to gather info through email.
Patricia Thomas-Hill tris...@bellsouth.net ________________________________ From: Charles Apple <apple1...@embarqmail.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 9:50:56 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and Pictures Cathy, I hesitated for a long time before purchasing Adobe Acrobat Professional due to it being rather pricey, however, since I made the purchase I have not regretting it one second. I haven't tried the Family Group Sheet editing that you are talking about, however, I know tht Acrobat Professional can accomplish many things that I never thought could be done. I have made my own Pedigree Charts, and Family Group Sheets as a form that can be filled in by other family members via email, etc. It would be well worth your time investigating this alternative to see if it can do what you want it to. Charles -----Original Message----- From: William H. Boswell [mailto:whbosw...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 6:12 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and Pictures Cathy: I was going to mention PDF, but you said you can't change it to OCR. Adobe Acrobat (not the PDF Reader) has OCR capabilities within the program, but usually only for images that contain text. Sending a Legacy report to PDF should be all text anyway so no OCR needed for that and should retain all fonts. I don't know about PDF knockoff programs. I know Acrobat is a bit pricey though. The only other alternative is to use a word processor. If you don't have one, you can always download OpenOffice.org which is free and a full suite of office programs. Then to retain any special fonts and formatting, you can export it to PDF. I've found one of the best programs to have for genealogy is the full version of Acrobat because you can scan everything into PDFs and attach them to sources in Legacy. I don't really understand the reasoning for moving the notes section to the top. You mention it contains graphics. Are these source graphics? Are the notes Footnotes/Endnotes? Are you trying to make the report accessible by others so they can make their own changes? Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: Cathy Vallevieni [mailto:cathyv...@cox.net] Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 4:31 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and Pictures Is there a way to create a Family Group Report that retains the formatting and the individual & event pictures but has the ability to move the Notes to the beginning of the report? I tried .txt but that loses the pictures and the bold headlines and text (I know I can manually add the photos and change each headline and other text to bold but that's very time consuming for how many families I have). I tried .pdf but it can't be changed to OCR which is required for me to move the Notes section to the beginning of the report (I assume because there's pictures which are graphics?). I tried .html but I can't move the Notes section. If I copy it to the clipboard, it's a graphic of the report and I can't move the Notes section. I tried sending the Descendant and Descendant Narrative reports to .rtf but they do not contain the event pictures. If there's no way to do it, I'll use the Descendant Narrative in .rtf because it's the least changes but it doesn't look as nice as the Family Group Report. Thanks. 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