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 >