As far as I'm concerned, regardless of the printer - it's a problem as I'm not often in a space that can display it. A 36 inch roller printer is great - but unless I tweaked the chart it would have 24" or more empty space for the entire length of the chart.
I made a TreeDraw chart for the descendants of a great aunt for their family reunion. With tweaking it was about 2.5 metres x 1 metre and went on the largest available wall at the small conference centre where they met. If I hadn't tweaked it to make it rectangular rather than a wall frieze it would have spent the reunion rolled up in a corner instead of being examined and discussed and added to.
My more immediate family tends to have picnic family reunions - no walls at all. For our last I produced a chart of the descendants of our grandparents. I cut this in two and printed in two parts so that each chart was about 1m wide and could be held and passed around. A wall frieze would have been useless.
Cheers, Cathy
At 09:18 AM 25/10/2004, you wrote:
And if you have access to a 36" roll printer, this is not a problem.
Terry
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By itself (automatic generation of all generations) a top to bottom chart very soon is very wide and narrow and you need a large hall to display it - however because each element is moveable and you can define groups and move them, it doesn't take much to get a rectangular chart that is easy to follow (especially if you use different coloured lines for the different branches) by dropping some families down the page(s).
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