Hi Laird, I will try out your suggestion as I got to just over 3000 pages, using Preview when the whole program closed.
Thank you, Susan At 02:24 PM 25/06/2012, you wrote: >Hi JL, >This should work for you. You can still use the idea Brian suggested. > >I just created a PDF Family Group Sheet of all of the marriages in my file. >There are 5,048 families and the PDF was 7,539 pages and 29.8 MB in size. > >Next I created individual reports for everyone in my file. There are 13,864 >individuals in my file and the PDF contained 32,767 pages and 315 MB in size. > >I used a software printer driver which looks like a printer to Windows (and >Legacy) and creates a PDF file. I use free PDFCreator. There are many other >products available such as CutePDF. > >In Legacy reports don't use Preview. >Use the Printer Setup button to select a PDF soft printer driver, in my case >PDFCreator. >Next click on the Print button and when prompted save the PDF file >to your HDD >of your choice. > >Laird > > >>> On 23/06/2012 21:29, Susan Perrett wrote: > >>>> I would like to be able to create some sort of Report, e.g. .DOC or > >>>> .RTF of the whole of my family file, so that when I depart this life, > > >>>> there would be some sort of readable documentation of everyone in my > >>>> family (file). Not just my paternal line but everyone, including all > >>>> the people around the world that are connected in some way to my family. > >>>> By doing this I can leave my family history recorded, without a > >>>> computer program needed to see the file. > >>>> > >>>> Is this possible, if so, where would I start? And with whom would I > >>>> start with? > >>> Susan Perrett Melbourne, Australia English webpage: http://www.st.net.au/~susanp/index.html American webpage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~susanp> Research: ALSTON-Suffolk/Bedford/America,post 1850, BOURCHIER-UK, post 1650, CHUDLEIGH-Devon, All, HOLTTUM-Kent,pre 1720,MARTEN-Sussex,pre 1660, OXENDEN-Kent, All. 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
