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A while back I created a custom version of the 2012.09.20 narrative report to produce family trees that could be printed to produce family history books for non-computer users. Basically it just sets the colour scheme, and doesn't have all the icons, menus, and other bits that would look odd on a printed doc.
http://familytrees.genopro.com/HarryCaper/Foster/
I use the Names TOC to navigate to the person I'm going to print, then close the TOC.
I have "print background (colours and images)" ticked under page setup, and on the print dialog Print Frames is set to"layouts as displayed on screen" so it prints the heading frame (which is cut down to just the banner image and report title) and the frame displaying an individual's details.
I found when I came to print pages for individuals that firefox was truncating the output to just the first page. This can be seen when you look at the print preview for this chap (close the names toc first) :
http://familytrees.genopro.com/HarryCaper/Foster/Hales-George-ind00124.htm
Perhaps if you get some time you could look at whether this affects the current version of the narrative report?
The truncating thing is a well reported Firefox issue, it seems related to how the webpage is constructed - maybe it is down to our detail frame, or perhaps there's a css overflow property that needs to be put in. Not sure.
I tried printing from IE - it seemed to want to print the TOC even though it was closed on screen.
I tried printing from Chrome - that looked fine, except it seemed to shrink the output so it only took about 60% of the sheet of A4.
I had to do my print run yesterday - I worked around the issue, so this isn't a burning issue for me.
It affected about a dozen individuals I needed to print pages for - for those I collapsed their families sections, and opened the individual families pages and printed them so all the info ended up in the printed report.
I was at work so I couldn't create a second report supressing the Families section on Individuals pages, which would have given me a more elegant result for the individuals spanning more than one page.
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Hi,
I have been trying to print Narrative Report Individual's pages and I hit similar problems. I tried many combinations of parameters until I came to a satisfactory result, although it takes time and can only be considered to print a few individual print-outs, not for a whole report.
Here is my method (note: it does not work with IE9 or Chrome which end up with errors):
Generate a Narrative Report (I use your "Olive Branch" frame)
Open the Narrative Report with Firefox
Select the Individual and close the TOC
Click "File" ---> "Preview" ---> "Page Setup" (select Portrait or Landscape)
Click "Scale", select "Custom" and find the correct multiplier which fills the page without blowing the text out of your page boundaries (with my font, script parameters, ~100% to 125% works)
Click "Print"
I use a PDF generator called PDF995 which installs a virtual printer on your computer
Select the printer "PDF995"
Click "All"
Click "Each frame separately"
Click "Properties" ---> "Landscape" (e.g.) ---> A4 (e.g.)
Click "OK", "OK", "OK", until you launch the PDF995 printer which asks you the name and directory under which you want to save your printout (myuncle.pdf on the Desktop, e.g)
You have now generated a PDF document and are almost there. The first page(s) of this document are the frame, then the partial TOC on which you selected the Individual, followed by the selected Individual page(s), which is what you really want to print, followed maybe by a blank page.
Open this document with PDF995 (or Acrobat Reader if you just want to print a hard-copy) and select the pages you want to print on a "real" printer or to produce a clean PDF file with only the pages you want.
Note 1: the resulting pages are not framed and have no header (which is lost in a page above the TOC pages)
Note 2: if you do not follow carefully all the steps, you might obtain unpredictable results, the most annoying one being the individual report being cut-off at the bottom of the first page
Note 3: If you want to print just one page of the report, you can only click "Current" instead of "All" (as above) if there is no page separator visible on your screen. If a page separator is visible on the screen, the "Current" option is greyed-out.
I have no idea why it works this way as I found out by "hit and miss", and I missed quite a few times! Now you can also see why it is not a viable solution for a whole report print-out, but it works well for me when I wish to print excerpts of a "Narrative Report" for a few individuals. Please let me know in case you improve my recipe.
I have appended a PDF document of the print-out of an "Individual" produced by this method.
Hope this helps. Kind regards
Roland
Marie Eliane de Souza Dromund_01.pdf
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Hi,
Just for fun, I tried my method opening the Narrative Report quoted in your post and printing the "Individual" George Hales (b. 1792). The first attached PDF file named George Hales.pdf is the "intermediate" result with some unwanted pages (header, TOC). The second PDF file named George Hales_01.pdf is the final result. I would be grateful if you told me where you removed the GenoPro icon and the tree icon which follow the individual name in the first line of the report.
Kind regards
Roland
George Hales.pdf
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George Hales_01.pdf
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Just to let you all know that after a request from Roland I have been working on a variant of the Narrative Report that will produce a PDF version of the report with all individuals sorted in last name order and without the unwanted icons. I have been making good progress on this and have been using an open source package wkhtmltopdf to convert pages to PDF format. Instead of individual pages I am producing one html page per last name in order to hopefully use wkhtmltopdf's toc facilty to provide the index.
NO promises on when this is going to be ready but my current 'guessimate' is mid-September ( that's 2013  )
'lego audio video erro ergo disco' or "I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn"
Edited: Saturday, August 31, 2013 by
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Moved discussion on Narrative Report PDF Book format out to new topic
'lego audio video erro ergo disco' or "I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn"
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