Hi Sharon,
As far as I can see, you can't edit charts made with Legacy Charting
Companion. It makes some very pretty charts but I like the control
that TreeDraw gives.
Legacy Charting Companion also doesn't do a Drop Down Descendant
Chart - Generations go from left to right instead of top to bottom as
my family expect.
It would be great it TreeDraw was easier to work with but it has a
lot of tools once you learn to use them. You need to learn pretty
quickly how to zoom in and out efficiently to move around a large chart.
Cathy
At 09:23 18/08/2005, you wrote:
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
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