In message of 23 Mar, "Chris" <chris@masquerade.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Peter, > > I fully re-installed Generations, then installed the patch for Chart, > and all works just fine. > > If you do need to move from generations, then I'd suggest The Master > Genealogist (TMG) which imports directly from Generations - rather > than needing to go via GEDCOM. While it does take a bit of learning, > once you are on top of it - TMG is very good. May I corroborate this for TMG. There is no other way of extracting all your information from your Generations file: GEDCOM is not sufficient for this purpose, data is always lost. > > regards > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Abbott [mailto:PeterAbbott.Eymore@btinternet.com] > Sent: 23 March 2005 14:34 > To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SoG] Drawing Family Trees > > > I have been using Generations 8.5 for sometime (originally as reunion on a > mac). I like the features of the chart program. I am now using Windows XP > Pro and the colour translation to a printer does not work and the chart > program is unusable. I cannot go back to an earlier operating system. I think you can run an earlier operating system under XP, I have heard people talk about doing that. But I don't use XP myself so cannot help. > I have posted a message on the forum and others are having the same > problem. As far as I know the software is not be maintained or > updated and no fixes are available. > > Does anyone know of software that works similar to the Chart program in > Generations. I have tried Rootsmagic demo and it will not import my flags > and notes at present. The chart features would be acceptable if I could > guarantee to import all of the fields from my GEDCOM file. Curiously this original note of Peter Abbot's has yet to get to me. There is a fix for this Chart problem with Generations and somewhere I have the file to do that fix. If I can be given a firm real e-address, I'll forward it there (too many people have to munge their addresses these days to avoid spam). -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org