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Also on the subject of printing out for a book, how do I print out all the photos of each person, at the moment on the report it only prints one. apart from the photos of other close relatives
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The requested function is not included yet, but is on the wishlist of others as well.
The present pages (htm) when creating a report are not that suited to be printed, especially not if there are many educations and occupations with pictures. All pictures will build one column and all narrative text will build one column. They do not match horizontaly.
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Dan said in the past that GenoPro will be able in the future to generate reports as word and rtf documents, and if I am not mistaken also in pdf format.
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This is correct. The report generator has been designed to handle other output formats than HTML. I spent more time with the HTML generator because I believe it is the best general-purpose language for generating reports.Generating RTF or PDF documents is a bit more complex than generating HTML. This is a post 2.0 feature because I don't want to delay version 2.0 for this.
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I spent more time with the HTML generator because I believe it is the best general-purpose language for generating reports.I disagree. It may be easier to generate, but I think that most of the people are not using an Internet site for publishing their work. I think that most of them are generating their reports, using other genealogy software, to either word or pdf documents. This is a better and easier way to show your work and share it with your family.
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I have to agree with Yehudad (see the topic http://support.genopro.com/Topic7539-63-1.aspx). HTML is nice tool to navigate and present the genealogy on Internet or CD - but it is not useful for the long term future, it is not useful to take with to your trips, you can not send HTML to most of your relatives. The best result of the work with GenoPro should be a good quality book about your family. We have to see GenoPro just as a tool (a good one I have to say) to study and store genealogy information. Therefore I would like to emphasize the importance of RTF (you can create PDF from RTF) document. Jan
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I think the best book (e-book) with minimal effort could be HTML Help. Generating of HTML pages is almost mature so only additional file with bookmarks (TOC) and project file are required - and these also can be generated *). User only need free HTML Help Workshop to compile .chm files. It is format of standard Windows help so it isn't requires any viewer. Good feature is also full-text search._______
*) I use Docbook for publishing, where many outputs can be generated from single .xml file (xhtml/HTML_Help/javahelp/manpages/xsl-fo/...) so I think there is way to autogenerate HTML Help source files in GenoPro too.
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I think the best book (e-book) with minimal effort could be HTML Help. ...How you want to send the HTML Help e-book (probably on CD) to your old grandmother that she can read it? Many old people do not have computer and 80% of other prefer to have something printed. Do you want hand over work you have done (by building your family tree) to your grandson (who will be born in 2050)? Then forget about HTML! How he will read an old, broken CD-ROM ? HTML has an advantage - it is small, easy to navigate and it is possible to put it on web.
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Other idea: GenoPro XML -> XSLT -> output.fo (XSL-FO) -> output.pdf
For these who do not understand: When data are once stored in XML, there is another way how to convert them into PDF. Using special conversion language (XSLT) you can transform XML data into new descriptive format (XSL-FO) and then using free tools you can convert .fo format into PDF. These procedures are used in cross-media publishing. From one source you can get several outputs. Core of this system are XSLT templates. In another thread you can see conversion of GenoPro .xml file into .svg chart.
For many people would be interesting WordML format too I think - XML format used by new version of MS Office. It could be imported and then printed.
Of course, html can be generated from .xml directly too. But in this case I agree that for many people are reports still the best way.XSLT template should be very modular to be easy customized. I regret I have not enough knowledge of XSLT syntax. I'd like to show you its possibilities on working examples. Maybe in future. Good info about this technology you can find here.
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imcon (9/22/2005)
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I think the best book (e-book) with minimal effort could be HTML Help. ...How you want to send the HTML Help e-book (probably on CD) to your old grandmother that she can read it? Many old people do not have computer and 80% of other prefer to have something printed. Do you want hand over work you have done (by building your family tree) to your grandson (who will be born in 2050)? Then forget about HTML! How he will read an old, broken CD-ROM ? HTML has an advantage - it is small, easy to navigate and it is possible to put it on web. If I look at the above quote, noting is good enough but ordinary paper.... But guess what, even ordinary paper is not good enough. That old grandma, is getting problems with her eyes and requires font size 20 to read text. So you're going to print new versions every week in multiple font sizes (since your nephew really prefers the arial-10 font), as long as you're making changes to the tree. Also, the hard copy paper is wearing out, and likely after your grandson is born, the paper is unreadably, and certainly out of date. I agree that being able to print is nice, but it isn't the holy grail that everybody is looking for. I typically change my tree at least 3 times a week, with, for example 30 additional persons every week for the last 4 weeks (I now have 1600 persons in my tree). It is just unthinkable that I would be printing this for the approx. 40 family members that are looking at my website very regularly. my $ 0.02, Ronald
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