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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [FTST] printing reports
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 08:51:31 -0500
In-Reply-To: <2d.150b5045.293a80a6@aol.com>


wrote:
>I use Family Origins and got my database successfully transferred to FTST. I
>would like to be able to print a fan chart of four generations in a 90 deg
>pattern to the right. I figured out how to do that, but the report is, if I
>understand this correctly, about 12" x12", with the fan in the middle of the
>page. What I want is the fan in the lower left corner of an 8 1/2" x 11"
>page. The fan should be about 6" x 6". Also, I think the FTST program hangs
>up my printer in that 12" x 12" size. I have an HP Office Jet G85, so I don't
>think it is the printer.

What size canvas do you have (Tools=>Diagram=>Diagram Measurements from the
top menu of Visual ChartForm)? What size Drawing -- both horizontal and
vertical dimensions (Tools=>Diagram=>Resize Drawing from the top menu of
VCF)? Does the drawing cover more than one page (select View=>Page Bounds
from the top menu to turn page boundaries on/off). Is the page size shown
within the capabilities of your printer? Is the printer driver the
latest? Often the driver furnished with a new printer is not the latest -
check with the HP web site.

There is probably no right answer to the first few questions, but maybe the
above question can help guide you to what you want. For what it is worth,
I was abler to get a 6" square 90 degree fan in the lower left corner of a
page . Allowing for the minimum margin, I had to "waste" a page and print
on the second page to get the actual placement I wanted. Since noting
printed on the "wasted" page, I just re-inserted it in the printer for use
later.

Hope this helps -

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