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By Patch61 - Monday, October 9, 2006
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Currently, the largest font size available is very small on a large genomap. My family tree has over 2700 names on it, grouped by family name and showing all interconnections. Each family is in a colored polygon, with the family name at the top. The largest font size available is too small to read unless you zoom in close. This makes it difficult for a person viewing the tree to find a particular family easily, without a lot of zoom in, zoom out, move, zoom in, zoom out, move, etc. -Steve
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By maru-san - Monday, October 9, 2006
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When there were no genomaps around, everybody had the same suggestion finding themselves with 5000 or more members in one genomap. But with genomaps you can (and should) split your big tree into sizes of up to app. 150 individuals or less (in exceptional cases may be 250) and give the genomaps a proper name, so your relatives will find themselves more easily. Of course genomaps should be linked via Hyperlink. You will find the present font size sufficient, except for labels.
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By Patch61 - Monday, October 9, 2006
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Labels are exactly what I need a larger font for. And I like my whole family on one screen. 'Should' is a relative opinion. -Steve
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By Poolzone - Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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I have my Family Tree on over 500 Genomaps of approx 25 members per Genomap, all hyperlinked. The result when reading the tree and /or printing the tree is great. I strongly recommend it. Font size is no longer an issue. Individual Families are on separate trees, avoiding Family conflicts. Genopro 2 will soon improve printing preferences also. I guarantee if you use the system you will be impressed with the seamless integration by the report writer and never again require one single Genomap, nor larger font sizes. Of course if the text size in Labels can already be adjusted, just click on the label and change text size to Extra Large
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By Patch61 - Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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I'm sure your method is very useful and works for your purposes. However, with my method I can see how every person and every family in my tree is interconnected at a glance. I do not have to flip between pages to see who is where. I have temporarily solved the problem of font size by creating a large set of letters out of polygons. They are blocky-looking, but serve their purpose. Plus, my genogram is formatted to print nicely on a 36" roll-fed plotter to create an attractive wall chart without taping little pages together.  -Steve
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By IainTait - Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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I also have a huge tree but I have only sepatated the families into related groups which are still quite large in some cases and there are already over 60 of them. To separate all the families I would need 500 genomaps! I haven't yet got round to thinking of printing out my tree, but the idea of smaller trees might be an idea if I do.
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By GenoProSupport - Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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In the future, we have plans to support multiple fonts of any sizes.
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By 206702 - Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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I don't have a large tree yet, but I find the font very small in terms of viewing on the screen. I understand it can be enlarged for printing. I imagine other middle aged and elderly people have the same problem with reading this small font.
It would be nice if the control icons could be bigger also. I have to mouse over them and wait for the explanation to come up before I'm sure which one I'm at.
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By appleshaw - Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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When viewing on the screen the font size depends on the zoom factor, which is initially determined by the size of your tree and how much space there is betwen individuals. By dragging these closer in effect you can increase the size on screen,
You can also increase the size of an object ie name with gender symbol by selecting it and either pressing Ctrl-+ or use the icon on the menu. (Use Ctrl - to reduce again)
Alternatively zoom the display until you can read the names easily
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By Patch61 - Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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I have created a large font using closed figures for the letters. Not convenient, but it is usable for labels and such. If anybody is interested, please let me know. -Steve 
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By 206702 - Sunday, October 22, 2006
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Dear Famous Writer,
All that is a lot of work. Things should follow the toaster model - work right, little or no effort.
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By edanite - Sunday, November 11, 2007
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I also have a fairly large tree (ca. 600 individuals), and it is split over 13 genomaps. When I'm ready to print on my 36" plotter, I export all of the genomaps to Metafile, and then organize them onto one or two E-size sheets for printing using OpenOffice Draw. If I print on one E-size sheet, I take a magnifying glass with the tree so that the more elderly (and even not so elderly) people at the reunion can read it.
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