The old layout placed the pictures left to right across the page then down to the next row. The space for each picture was fixed and any descriptions that took more than the allowed space were truncated. The new layout is a column format where pictures are added down the page in the first column then change to column 2 and fill that. This continues for as many columns as specified by your pictures/page setting. The height of a particular picture is now driven by the length of the description which are no longer truncated arbitrarily. The new sequence is required to figure out when the picture plus text needs to be started at the top of the next column or carried to the next page if it is a picture in the last column.
There is no option for concise vs verbose for descriptions because there is only one description field. The verbosity was the way that one user filled out the description field. He had long paragraphs describing when and where the picture was taken and who was in the photo if there was a group. I cannot remember now if his list of people was one person per line or if his descriptions were organized into multiple line entries. I only remember that in some cases his descriptions were 10 or 15 lines long. On 27/06/2012 15:52, Pauline B. Cramer wrote: > Brian, > Could you please clarify "changing the way the report is laid out and > photos are sequenced". Sequenced? > > I have looked at one of my scrapbooks, selecting various number of > photos per page, tight and loose, with and without descriptions, etc. > So it appears, that even if you specify 4 photos per page, you may get 2 > or 3 per page, so a scrapbook of 20 photos that might have been 5 pages > may be 8 pages, with a lot of wasted space, etc. > > Perhaps there needs to be a choice of having descriptions: verbose or > concise. > > Pauline > > On 6/27/2012 3:42 AM, Brian/Support wrote: >> The layout was recently changed because of a problem report from a user >> who uses very verbose descriptions of their photos. They wanted the >> photo and the description kept on the same page which necessitated >> changing the way the report is laid out and photos are sequenced. >> >> Brian >> Customer Support >> Millennia Corporation >> [email protected] >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com >> >> We are changing the world of genealogy! >> When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. >> Thanks. >> >> On 26/06/2012 18:14, Sally Northey wrote: >>> Hello group, >>> >>> Twelve months ago I printed out a small booklet with scrapbook pages. I >>> had the photos 16 to a page and were all laid out evenly on the page >>> with the name of the photo directly above the person with no space >>> between the name and the photo. You could have used a pen and ruled up >>> columns and the photos would have fitted into the squares evenly, >>> >>> NOW when I try I get about the same number of photos per page but they >>> are all over the page and the name above the photo is a good two lines >>> above the photo. When you view the page it is hard to see whether the >>> name of the photo refers to the photo above the name or the photo below >>> the name. I have tried putting in the line between them but it still >>> does not look right. How can I get it back to having the page evenly >>> laid out. I have tried tight, normal, loose. >>> >>> Regards Sally >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on >> our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >> 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/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > 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/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
