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From: Robin Lamacraft <>
Subject: Re: [FTST] How to get ancessders/decendents on more than one page
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:02:47 +1030
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>Dale wrote:
>>2. How do you get it to a tree to grow up? By this I mean I tried printing
>>out all the decedents of my Great-Great-Great grandfather. I get a print
>>out that is 39 pages long but all the generations are on one sheet length.
>>So the tree is very squat and very wide which makes for interesting lines.
>>Again I see I could start doing it manually but this would take a long time.
>>Is there some setting that would do, say put each generation on it's own
>>sheets or row of pages? I would rather have 10 sheets long and 4 sheets
>>high.

Try the following although it will not entirely give you what you want:
(1) turn the paper to landscape orientation in Page Setup.
(2) increase the spacing between generations to make each generation go
onto a separate row of pages.
(3) decrease the width of boxes to cause the width of the total chart to
reduce.

There are other ways of making the chart more squat, but they involve some
tedious manual editing - I have previously wished for some additional
selection and layout controls that would make this process easier. The most
important of these is to be able select a person's descendant's tree and
move it as a single unit - you can do this now but it is easy to make an error.

Robin Lamacraft (Adelaide, Australia)

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