I just updated to Legacy 7.5 and treated myself to the charting software as well. So I have a couple of questions about making charts.
What I want to do, is choose a size for a chart (like 4 feet wide and 3 feet tall, or 14 inches wide by 11 inches high) and then experiment with different numbers of generations and different data on each person and different people, until I end up with a good looking chart. However, I'm having a lot of trouble with that, because it looks like Legacy Charts thinks in the opposite way: It wants to know how many generations, what data, etc, and then tells you how big the chart will be). If I want a 4 foot by 3 foot chart but only six generations, that means I want lots of space per generation, but the charting software doesn't do that. So is there a way to set the page size first, and then see how much chart you can "stuff in" to that sized page? Also, these specific questions: Lets say I create a fan chart, and it is about 25 inches in diameter. However, I'm going to have it printed on a 4 foot by 3 foot sheet of paper, by generating a PDF and then taking it to a print shop. Is there any way to get the pie chart in the middle of the PDF? Right now, it is always in the upper left corner. Can I print out events on a chart? So people who have an immigration event will say "Immigrated 1921" (or whatever). It might be best of all to have a special event/fact just for that purpose. Something like "Chart Caption" and just have my chart print out the description field of that. It would also be nice to color code one person's background or text based on events. So relatives with military service would be in bold, or in red, or maybe have red background, or something like that. Immigrants might be in blue, that sort of thing. Any way to do any of this? Thanks for any help. Joshua Levy 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
