Hi Rick, OK - you are using the UK marriage (double line) parent link option. Switch to the US marriage link style. Many of these problems will go away. Robin On 15/06/2015 1:16 PM, Rick Van Dusen via wrote: > Robin, I'm not finding any unknown people. (I believe all unknowns are > entered as person with given and/or surnames of "(--?--)".) > > The spaces are seemingly random, appear to be making it so that the > parents are centered over the children or some such. In one case, there > is one person some 10m to the right of the nearest other people, and > those other people are several meters farther right than they need to be. > > I was hoping there might be an alternative to manually editing, which is > proving both a drudge and going to require that I learn more about > moving boxes and connecting lines. > > Thanks, Robin and Virginia. Unfortunately, I'm not going to get this > fixed for this reunion. Too much "life happening" right now. > > > Rick Van Dusen > > > > > > > On 6/12/2015 2:19 PM, robin lamacraft wrote: >> Hi Rick, >> >> Are you talking about occasional large gaps? >> Are these associated with "unknown person" boxes being placed an excess >> distance to the right? >> If so, identify the associated descendant and and deliberately add a new >> person, name "unknown person" for each case. >> [The VCF layout algorithm acts differently for a known ID person >> compared to one that it has create itself.] >> Now generate the chart again. >> >> If the chart is very wide and shallow look at the technique I described >> on page 243 of "Getting the Most Out of The Master Genealogist". This >> involves some post-generation editing. Typically this technique can >> reduce the width down to 35-50% of the original generated with by >> increasing the depth of the chart. >> >> Robin >> >> On 12/06/2015 8:56 PM, Rick Van Dusen via wrote: >>> I've printed Descendant Box Charts for my family, but find they come out >>> way too wide. Is there a way of: >>> >>> 1. Causing VCF to reduce the horizontal distances between boxes (in one >>> case I have one person hanging 10m out from the next "outlier"), >>> >>> and/or >>> >>> 2. Reducing the overall size of the chart ("zoom", but actually changing >>> the print size)? >>> >>> >>> Rick Van Dusen >>> The TMG archive is found here: >>> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ >>> Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: >>> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Robin Lamacraft, Adelaide, Australia

Chart I tried shrank from 9 * 5m pages to 6, just by changing to US. No big gaps. Thanks, Robin. Rick Van Dusen On 6/15/2015 1:11 AM, robin lamacraft wrote: > Hi Rick, > > OK - you are using the UK marriage (double line) parent link option. > > Switch to the US marriage link style. Many of these problems will go away. > > Robin