Sometimes you gotta bit the bullet. (g) The only reason I use the "Write me a book" features is so I don't mess up the dates too badly! I always have to rewrite the rest of it so it sounds like me. Cheryl Gaylon Findlay wrote: > Cheryl: > > I haven't tried this, but I think you could. The problem with this > approach is that you'd lose all the nice formatting, and the text would > contain the information, but not be very pretty. > > If you're primarily working with the two narrative reports -- the > Ahnentafel and Modified Register, there are better ways to do this > (described below.) For other reports you might include such as fan > charts, descendant charts, pedigree charts, family group sheets, etc., > this text format would not be presentable in a published book. > > If you're primarily using the Ahnentafel and Modified Book reports in > your family book, don't even use the 'Publish a Family Book' feature. > Just create these reports to RTF or WordPerfect format, then use Word or > WordPerfect to combine the various smaller reports into a single larger > report, along with any other documents, and finally generate the index > -- when you generate these two reports from PAFWiz to an RTF or > WordPerfect file, it puts the index entries into the document, so this > should be an easy task. > > Gaylon > > > singhals wrote: > >> Gaylon Findlay wrote: >> >> >> >>> Mareen: >>> >>> If you want an RTF file, like you'd get in PAF, you use the method >>> Bill outlines. >>> >>> The "Publish a Family Book" allows you to combine several reports all >>> into one large report with a master table of contents and master >>> index. This option does not have the capability of generating to an >>> RTF file -- you can either print it directly to your printer or to a >>> PDF file. >>> >>> Gaylon >>> >>> >>> Bill Buchanan wrote: >>> >>> >> >> >> >> Gaylon, >> >> couldn't you install a generic text printer and select that as the >> default? And then once you've got the text file, you can do whatever >> you want with it by way of fonts, insertions, etc etc. You'd probably >> have to remark all the index entries, and that might not be worth >> minor tweaks in the layout/presentation. >> >> Also, seems to me I've heard about a freeware/shareware program that >> lets you edit pdf files -- will PAFWhiz let you install that one? >> >> Cheryl >> >> > > -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.