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

Rick - To set space between boxes: Chart / Options / Chart Style / Gap between boxes For other tips on downsizing charts, see the settings in the VCF forum message here: http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index.php?showtopic=10885 There are other helpful links for downsizing charts in the pinned message at the top of the VCF forum on One-page charts. You can change the font type and size in the report options. Virginia On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Rick Van Dusen via <tmg@rootsweb.com> 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

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 -- Robin Lamacraft, Adelaide, Australia