I am one of the many who were using FTM and have to find another solution.
The main factors in deciding for me will probably be related to the reports and book publishing options. I've downloaded the free Legacy but since some of it is disabled I haven't been able to determine if the book publishing and reports do what I need. 1. Is there anything comparable to FTM's smart stories in Legacy? 2. In the text report can I insert pictures? If not is there a report where I can basically type a few paragraphs of information with at least some basic formatting options (font, font size, center or left alignment) and also add a few photos that I can size/resize as I want. 3. Can I make a report, save it, and then add it to a book? (FTM does not do this) I would like to be able to take the saved report make a few changes to it and save it as another report, thus creating two reports. 4. Can I export the entire book to pdf? 5. Can I export the book to an editable format (such as RTF)? I have two books that I created in FTM. I spent a lot of time on these creating many pages that have historical information and photos - such as specific battles in the Civil War or American Revolution, historic buildings or events and brief history of them along with them. I am very unhappy to have to start over at all with these but I want to make sure I get a program that will do what I want. The genealogy reports and charts are probably fine but I need to be able to make pages with one or two photos that I insert and some text that I type. I don't really want to make them in another program and insert them later as this is fiddly and more steps. I need to be able to export the entire thing as a pdf, indexed with page numbers. I didn't find a forum for Legacy FT. I hope this is the right place to ask these questions. TY! Linda --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
