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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] VCF problems
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 21:53:11 -0800
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On or about 11/01/04 08:39 a carrier pigeon from Steinar Vissebraaten
delivered:
>At 21:28 31.10.2004 Sunday, Peter R Thompson wrote the following:
>Hi.
>
>Before when you choose the cut and past in VCF it just fit the size you
>saw in the VCF. This was never a problem before. Now when you cut in the
>VCF page that seems to be a size you want this is now always only half the
>size no matter what you do!!
>
>Try to make an A4 page in the VCF and cut and past it - I am sure you get
>the same problem as me.

Given that VCF does have an Export function, and EMF is a
possibility, I don't think I'd ever use a screen cut&paste -- There is too
much of a chance that a screen cut&paste may only copy the visible data at
the screen resolution (typically 96dpi) while Word's print resolution may
assume an image should be 150dpi or more (ie, I don't know if the cut&paste
transfers in a scalable vector format or as an image).

Having said that, however, I should also state that the last time
I produced a printed volume I was using TMG4.0, and don't even remember if
the VCF of that era /had/ export... I'd had to print the charts
stand-alone, and rig blank pages in Word to keep the page numbers correct.


Okay, as a test...

I generated an Ancestor tree (7 generations). It came up in VCF
using 6 sheets of US-Letter (it was roughly 14"x26").

I selected everything in VCF, scaled it down to 10" tall (about 6"
wide) -- which fits 1 sheet of US-Letter. Granted, the text is practically
impossible to read (I can read the names with a magnifying glass, but the
dates/places are under 6pt, and only legible if you know what it meant to
begin with).

Exported as EMF format.

Opened Word.

Insert/picture/from file; the EMF came in and fit the page; no
strange scaling, no cut-off data.

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