Just to add for information -- the RTF with one page and only one line that I saved to my desktop says it has 58.9 kb. Joy On 10/4/2012 4:26 PM, Betty Stokes wrote: > I might try converting the pdf to text. An early version of Family Origins > allowed me to print to text. And I think I exported to PAF and got good > results but that was a long time ago. I use the individual report for the > head of the household and that does fairly well to make a text file. Other > times, the pdf works well but has to be an attachment. I do still have > Microsoft Works on my computer. I have Word Perfect 5 and Microsoft Word > 2007. There should be a check box somewhere to be able to do an "open with." > I'm also having a problem that I didn't have before that leaves out the > birthdate on some places. > Betty > > -----Original Message----- > From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joy Gulden > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 6:18 PM > To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [RMagic] Family Group Sheet > > Betty - I have the same problem you have. PDF works just fine, but RTF > opening in Wordpad only shows the first line. I have tried the suggestion > to uncheck the view option, but still only get the first line. I saved the > RTF file to my desktop and tried the "open with" > Microsoft Works Word processing and it tells me I do not have enough memory > to open that one page. It says to close all other programs, which I did - I > even restarted my computer and it still told me I do not > have enough memory. I have Windows7 - 64 bit, with 310 GB space > available and 7.89 GB ram available. If you find the problem, please > let me know, too. I cannot find any place to change any other options > for viewing this report. Thanks, Joy >

WordPad does not do a very good job of displaying RTF documents. Microsoft Word seems to have been the originator of RTF so it is probably the best at displaying an RTF document. I have an old copy of WordPad, I think that it came with Windows 98, it does a much better job of displaying RTF Family Group Sheet than any of the more recent versions, but it still won't do a decent job, the pictures are left out and the longer text lines sometimes cross into the next column. Alfred

I get the same results as Alfred with Microsoft word viewer but PDF does very well. From: Alfred Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 8:17 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Family Group Sheet WordPad does not do a very good job of displaying RTF documents. Microsoft Word seems to have been the originator of RTF so it is probably the best at displaying an RTF document. I have an old copy of WordPad, I think that it came with Windows 98, it does a much better job of displaying RTF Family Group Sheet than any of the more recent versions, but it still won't do a decent job, the pictures are left out and the longer text lines sometimes cross into the next column. Alfred =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2677 / Virus Database: 2591/5807 - Release Date: 10/03/12

The ONLY program that will almost correctly handle the RTF files saved from RootsMagic is Microsoft Word (unsure what the oldest version is that does), NOT WordPad, NOT WordPerfect, NOT Open Office's equivalent, and not likely Libre Office's equivalent. To cause the saved RTF file to automatically open in MS Word and not something else, you need to set the File Association for RTF to Always Open with MS Word. In Windows Explorer, find any RTF file, right click on it, select Open With and check the box once you select MS Word. The missing birth dates might be because there is not only one birth fact marked Primary. Just a guess. Tom On 2012-10-04, at 9:01 PM, "Jesse Davis" <jespat@verizon.net> wrote: > I get the same results as Alfred with Microsoft word viewer but PDF does very well. > > > From: Alfred > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 8:17 PM > To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [RMagic] Family Group Sheet > > WordPad does not do a very good job of displaying RTF documents. > > Microsoft Word seems to have been the originator of RTF so it is > probably the best at displaying an RTF document. > > I have an old copy of WordPad, I think that it came with Windows 98, it > does a much better job of displaying RTF Family Group Sheet than any of > the more recent versions, but it still won't do a decent job, the > pictures are left out and the longer text lines sometimes cross into the > next column. > > Alfred > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2677 / Virus Database: 2591/5807 - Release Date: 10/03/12 > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Tom MS Word is not working either. It drops the Family Group title entirely. I am using the latest of both. i was not having that problem before. Jon *** On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Tom Holden <ve3meo@gmail.com> wrote: > The ONLY program that will almost correctly handle the RTF files saved > from RootsMagic is Microsoft Word (unsure what the oldest version is that > does), NOT WordPad, NOT WordPerfect, NOT Open Office's equivalent, and not > likely Libre Office's equivalent. > > To cause the saved RTF file to automatically open in MS Word and not > something else, you need to set the File Association for RTF to Always Open > with MS Word. In Windows Explorer, find any RTF file, right click on it, > select Open With and check the box once you select MS Word. > > The missing birth dates might be because there is not only one birth fact > marked Primary. Just a guess. > > Tom > > > > On 2012-10-04, at 9:01 PM, "Jesse Davis" <jespat@verizon.net> wrote: > > > I get the same results as Alfred with Microsoft word viewer but PDF does > very well. > > > > > > From: Alfred > > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 8:17 PM > > To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [RMagic] Family Group Sheet > > > > WordPad does not do a very good job of displaying RTF documents. > > > > Microsoft Word seems to have been the originator of RTF so it is > > probably the best at displaying an RTF document. > > > > I have an old copy of WordPad, I think that it came with Windows 98, it > > does a much better job of displaying RTF Family Group Sheet than any of > > the more recent versions, but it still won't do a decent job, the > > pictures are left out and the longer text lines sometimes cross into the > > next column. > > > > Alfred > > > > > > =================================== > > RM list Archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ----- > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 2013.0.2677 / Virus Database: 2591/5807 - Release Date: 10/03/12 > > > > > > =================================== > > RM list Archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- -- Jon P Czarowitz, NHC, GF, GGF, IGC Hempel Genealogist since 1986 International Genealogist for http://www.clancunninghamintl.org RootsMagic 4 http://www.rootsmagic.com CUNNINGHAMS TOGETHER - CUNNINGHAMS WORLDWIDE!