Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs

2008-05-16 Thread John Magyari
/ _ Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:49:40 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs Using version Legacy Version 6.0.0.190 Legacy Chart

[LegacyUG] PDFs

2008-05-15 Thread Maria Dymon
I created a Ancestor Book in Legacy and saved as PDF. I then created several charts in Legacy Charting as PDFs. I'd like to send out PDFs for family members to print themselves. When I inserted the Charts into my Ancestor Book PDF, I noticed that the size of the chart PDF pages were 8 x 10.67

RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs

2008-05-15 Thread ronald ferguson
/ _ Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 07:26:52 -0800From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [LegacyUG] PDFs I created a Ancestor Book in Legacy and saved as PDF. I then created several charts in Legacy Charting as PDFs. I'd like to send out PDFs for family members to print

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs

2008-05-15 Thread Maria Dymon
/ _ -- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 07:26:52 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] PDFs I created a Ancestor Book in Legacy and saved as PDF. I then created several

RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs

2008-05-15 Thread ronald ferguson
May 2008 13:49:40 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs Using version Legacy Version 6.0.0.190 Legacy Chart 7.0.094 I went back and created PDFs again in both applications saw different dimensions for PDFs, the Legacy Chart being

RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-13 Thread Peter Haughton
and helpful contributors if you need assistance with it. Ask if you want more ... Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair Lack Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 7:35 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs

RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-13 Thread Peter Haughton
never know your luck ... Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair Lack Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 8:19 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs Dear Peter, Well, I have to congratulate

RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-13 Thread Peter Haughton
@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs Dear Peter, Well, I have to congratulate you on your perseverance! But for one so obviously competent to have to use two top-of-the-line wordprocessors to get a Legacy report into good order speaks for itself. Legacy must use some sort

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-13 Thread Alastair Lack
Peter, An interesting reply. Whilst I certainly take my hat off to Millennium for having done an extraordinary job with Legacy, it obviously doesn't preclude one from flagging up flaws. Creating a RTF output which writes [caption John Doe] inder the pictures is I believe such a flaw. I've

RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-13 Thread Peter Haughton
really wish to persist with it. Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair Lack Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 5:01 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs Peter, An interesting reply

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-12 Thread Alastair Lack
Susan, and others, I really appreciate your taking the trouble to explore this with me. If you do exactly as Susan has done - going to create a pdf file, but instead of saying 'yes' to viewing the pdf, you say 'no', you are left on the screen with a preview that I called a rtf file, because it

RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-12 Thread Peter Haughton
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair Lack Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 5:05 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs Susan, and others, I really appreciate your taking the trouble to explore this with me. If you do exactly as Susan has done - going

RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-12 Thread ronald ferguson
@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:17:18 +1000 Alastair That preview is identical to having Screen / Printer chosen, and then clicking on Preview. You are looking at the RTF creation as a fixed item. It is entirely flexible AND DEPENDS on settings

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-12 Thread Alastair Lack
Peter, Thankyou for your kind help. Much of what you say is of course correct, but not all, I think. Of course I understand that the RTF is there to be modified, but I am saying that it is a poor imitation of the print preview. The title page is present of course, but any image included on it is

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread Alastair Lack
If you look under the big printer icon, you will see various options - the default being screen (whence the print preview), but also text, html, rtf and pdf. That's the origin of the iffy rtf file; however if you select there pdf, you get a good rtf shown briefly before the pdf conversion is

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread Patricia Hickin
Can't Adobe Reader version 7 be downloaded free?? I've got it and I've certainly not paid for it. Pat - Original Message - From: Alastair Lack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Legacy Letters LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:01 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] PDFs

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
]>To: "Legacy Letters" <LEGACYUSERGROUP@LEGACYFAMILYTREE.COM>Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:01 AMSubject: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs We seem to have a rather curious situation as regards report printing from Legacy. If I print to Legacy pdf, an RTF is first created that looks ter

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread Keith Arnold
: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs Can't Adobe Reader version 7 be downloaded free?? I've got it and I've certainly not paid for it. Pat - Original Message - From: Alastair Lack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Legacy Letters LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:01 AM

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread couimet3
I know the various RTF, PDF, screen, printer options but I have never noticed an RTF being created when selecting the Legacy PDF output. If you look under the big printer icon, you will see various options - the default being screen (whence the print preview), but also text, html, rtf and

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread Alastair Lack
Couimet3 - , if you watch carefully what is happening, Legacy goes through two processes. First it creates a formatted text file that is much better than its RTF file, then it goes on to create the PDF. It would improve the reporting facillity considerably if the two processes could be

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread Susan Daily
Alistair, I have tried to recreate this, but I don't seem to see what you see. I go to, for example, Descendant Book Report. On the right, I select PDF file. Now I click on the icon Create. I type in a filename (test) and click Save. After two seconds where not much is happening (except page

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread Brian/Support
Alastair, I just ran a Descendant Narrative Report for Asa Clark Brown in the Sample File on a Pentium 150 with 96 MB of Memory. It took close to three minutes to generate the report for the preview and at no time did I see any sign that there was some kind of intermediate file on the

RE: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-11 Thread genealogist
- * From: Brian/Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 1:45 PM * To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com * Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs * * Alastair, * * I just ran a Descendant Narrative Report for Asa Clark Brown

Re: [LegacyUG] PDFs and RTFs

2006-08-10 Thread Nicholas Cirillo
Doesn't Acrobat Reader version 7 have an option for the creator to allow alterations. It seems I use fill in forms more and more that allow some alterations to the basic form. I certainly donot pretend to be an expert, just an observation.Nick CirilloAlastair Lack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We