I am using Legacy Charting Companion. There are many kinds of charts and
books - the usual ancestor & descendant and fan, bow tie, hourglass, and
more. The instruction book is simple to follow. I think you can look on
the Legacy site and sview the types of charts they have. It uses your
current Legacy file - no need to copy anything over to it.
I have just started using it, and have had my first chart printed at Kinko's
by taking a cd with the PDF file created and giving them the measurements I
used. They charged 50 cents per square foot, so it was fairly cheap, I
thought. It's on 20 lb paper. I forget how wide they said they could do,
but it was much wider than I needed - the length is pretty much unlimited.
This chart was for the descendants of my grandmother - printed in font size
18 (for the older people) and 17" across by 56" long. It looks good. I
called some smaller print shops, but they had limited width and one only had
photogrphic paper - which would have been VERY expensive.
I printed the Wall Chart Printing Tips and was able to follow it and get the
charts done for the descendants of each of my grandmothers siblings - one
would have been 9 feet long if I had left it at font 18 - but decided that
font 14 looked big enough.
Some people have been talking about making changes to the file once it's out
there, but I haven't figured out how to do that. It creates a PDF-Xchange
file - I can highlight data, but couldn't delete it. I printed locations,
and it would be nice to be able to print the short location field instead,
but didn't see an option for that.
Sharon Perdue
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Lacoste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:28 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Large (LARGE!) wall charts - recommendations..?
Wondering what recommendations users might have as to what
software (that works either with Legacy directly or with gedcoms) that
allows you to create and work with potentially (very!) large wall charts.
Tried TreeDraw, but it didn't do it for me. I'd rather work with the file
myself rather than sending it off to a company that produces such
charts.
Seems to me that I used to have programs that could do the job better
almost 10 years ago - Reunion worked nicely, until it died in the hands
of Sierra; and I found a nice little program by Corel (forget the name)
that also worked well. Seemed to be easier to use - or maybe I'm
slower now...
What do you use...?
Thanks!
Martin Lacoste
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