Brian, It sounds like one user had an awful lot of pull/influence with the developers. A change was made to satisfy one user with total disregard for how that change would effect many users.
Ron Bernier On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, Brian/Support wrote: > 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. > -- Ron Bernier Woonsocket, RI 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
