Geez Louise - I wasn't being critical....
On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Bob, > > What exactly do you mean by "book narrative"? This thread was about > Family Group Reports. But for your information with the Descendant > Narrative Report my Events and Event Notes, came immediately after the > individual's data. > > Ron Ferguson > _____________________________________________________ > > Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk > Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > ____________________________________________________ > > > ---- Original Message ---- > From: RUNION ROBERT > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Sent: 05 January 2010 09:41 > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and > Pictures > >> I experimented with Mary's suggestion and with an event 'Notes', you >> can move the data to any spot in the End notes. However, it sort of >> loses appeal to me when the data is not with the individual in a book >> narrative. If you have a 500 page book, the individual note (now an >> event) is listed on page 385 (example only) and seems to remove the >> 'history' from the immediate individual. Guess it is all in one's >> preference, but it is an interesting concept. - especially the photo >> addition possibility. >> >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Jan 4, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Syble Glasscock wrote: >> >> >> Thanks so much, really looks neat. >> Syble >> >> --- On Sun, 1/3/10, Mary Fowler Leek <ml...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> >> From: Mary Fowler Leek <ml...@sbcglobal.net> >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family Group Report with Editable Text and >> Pictures To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 7:34 PM >> >> >> Cathy, >> >> In order to organize your report with the notes at the beginning, just >> create a new 'event' titled Notes and copy and paste your hard coded >> notes into the event titled Notes. After that is done and you're sure >> you have the notes section all copied, then delete the identical >> information from the section of hard coded notes. This way, you can >> shift this new event all around among the events so it will read and >> print as and where you'd like it to within the report. With an event, >> you can also add in (attach) a photo. While the photos usually are >> quite small (maybe someday we'll be allowed to size them as we'd >> like) at least they add some interest to the events. >> >> If you'd like to see a report that I can produce using an event titled >> notes, as well as some of the original named events, rather than >> using the hard coded Notes, I'll create a short one in a pdf file, >> attach to an email and send to you so you can see how I've used an >> event titled 'notes' to write up some of my family history. This >> report can now be created in a second or two and I can shift and edit >> to my hearts content, should I come across more information or >> photo's I'd like to add to this family's history. >> >> Mary >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Cathy Vallevieni" <cathyv...@cox.net> >> >> >> >> William & Charles: >> >> Thank you for your response to my posting. >> >> I have Adobe Acrobat Professional but it will not change the Legacy >> PDF into OCR because the file contains the pictures I want to >> retain. It will only change an all text file into OCR. >> >> I have Microsoft Word but .rtf loses the event pictures and .txt >> loses all pictures + formatting. >> >> The reasoning for moving the Notes to the top is I've used that >> section to write a Family Biography (a story-type summary of the full >> history of the husband and wife and their life together with family >> stories and remembrances and descriptions of the personalities of the >> people--kinda like you would seen in a biography book). I'd like the >> flow to be the overall summary of the people followed by the "facts >> and events" for the husband followed by the "facts and events" for >> the wife followed by the "facts and events" for the marriage. A >> reader can just read the overall summary or can get into more detail >> by reading the facts with the detail of the Census', occupation (some >> with pictures like the store they owned or an ad they ran), >> residences with pictures of the house they lived in, etc. >> >> I'm guessing what I want to do can't be done but thought I'd ask. >> >> I'm preparing for a family reunion and have books with sections for >> each marriage/family and would like the sections to begin with this >> report followed by the photos and all documents for the couple. >> >> Cathy Vallevieni >> Orange County, CA >> >> At 03:12 AM 1/3/2010, you wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>> Cathy Vallevieni >>> Orange County, CA > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
