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By Keemah - Thursday, December 13, 2012
When publishing tree to Geno Website the SVG view of tree is fine but PDF option, whilst loading the PDF frame all OK, only shows a blank page.
Any advice most welcome.

Many thanks

Mike
By genome - Thursday, December 13, 2012
Are you using the Latest Narrative Report skin?
By Keemah - Monday, December 17, 2012
Thank you.
Yes I think I am on the latest version - 2.5.4.1 - is that correct?

Mike
By Keemah - Monday, December 17, 2012
Sorry - Although I have the latest version (2.5.4.1) does that mean that I have to download a later version "skin" seperately? If so not sure how that is done!?

Many thanks

Mike
By genome - Monday, December 17, 2012
Yes you do have to install the updated skin separately.  Unfortunately GenoPro Inc. does not update the GenoPro release often enough. Sad  

If you follow the link I provided for the latest skin you will find another link  How to install and use custom or updated report skins 
By Keemah - Thursday, December 20, 2012
Thank you for that.
No doubt I am missing something obvious but despite looking at the download link and various other places on the site, I simply can not find the link or location to download the latest skin(s).

Mike
By Keemah - Thursday, December 20, 2012
Apologies!!! Just found it!! Will try and see how this works.
Many thanks for your help.

Mike
By Keemah - Thursday, December 20, 2012
Have now installed the latest skin but unfortunatley the PDF version of the family tree is blank?? (SVG version is fine).

Mike
By appleshaw - Thursday, December 20, 2012
Mike
Is Inkscape installed? If so is it in the default folder. This is referred to in the IE configuration
By genome - Thursday, December 20, 2012
Could you post contents of the GenoPro 'Message Log' after report generated (see GenoPro menu bar View/Message Log)  Copy and paste it into your post (click within GenoPro Message Log window, press Ctrl & A then Ctrl & C , switch to your forum post and paste into post by pressing Ctrl & V )
By Keemah - Friday, December 21, 2012
Thank you for your continuing help!
Yes Inkscape is installed and in default folder.

I note in the log below that it says at one point - "Base skin version from Config.xml:2011.02.04"
I have though downloaded the latest skin (2012.09.20) - placed it in a folder under GenoPro reports and ensured that the report generator is pointing at it.


Message log;
[Import Summary]
   1 GenoMaps
   670 Individuals
   208 Families
   165 Marriages
   876 PedigreeLinks
   26 Pictures
   139 Places
   1 Educations
   50 Occupations
   1 Contacts
   2 SourcesAndCitations
   4 Twins
Import complete with 0 errors!
Unable to create Debug Manager (hr=0x80040154)
Publishing report to http://familytrees.genopro.com/mike@temasek.freeserve.co.uk/Hulands/
  Connecting to server familytrees.genopro.com...
Cloning document FamilyTree...
Opening configuration file Config.xml for skin 'English Narrative Report'...
Loading Dictionary.xml...
[0.00] Processing template 'init.htm'...
Base skin version from Config.xml:2011.02.04
To disable display of parameter settings, tick the box under 'Options' tab of 'Generate Report' dialog.
Please wait while IE form initializes
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Applying theme 'Default
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Generated 1072 pages (882 pages unchanged, 190 pages written) in 207.309 seconds
    average performance of 5.17 pages per second
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[228.79] Report Ready!  Click on the "Close" button to continue.

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By genome - Friday, December 21, 2012
Nearly there Mike but sorry, you are not using the correct skin.  Your skins folder path is incorrrect, remove the last folder from the path i.e Narrative_2012.09.20\ leaving it as C:\Users\Mike\Documents\GenoPro Reports\Skins\

It needs to point to folder containing the skin folders, i.e. the parent folder of the skin folder not the skin folder itself.  The skins folder can hold several different skins, each in its own folder.

GenoPro is not finding any skin folders below your currently set folder, so it is only showing the built-in skins.

When correct the new skin will show in the list as \Narrative_2012.09.12\* .........
By Keemah - Saturday, December 22, 2012
Hi,

Thank you for your continued excellant support. Got the skin sorted now - confirmed by the fact that the webpage looks different and the log shows the latest skin.
Unfortunatley, whilst everything else, including the SVG diagram is perfect - the PDF is still coming up blank. (I have tried vewing the site with both Firefox and IE on more than one PC with the same results)..

Mike
By genome - Saturday, December 22, 2012
OK.  A bit of a blind alley but it is worthwhile having the latest skin anyway.  

I do recall something similar to your issue with a very wide genogram.  Some PDF readers, including Adobe cannot cope if the PDF is more than 200 inches wide.  Is you genomap very wide?  

You could try the PDF reader built-in to the Google Chrome browser or perhaps the Foxit pdf Reader (my favourite).  If all else fails try splitting or squashing the genogram.
By Keemah - Saturday, December 22, 2012
Thank you once again for the "second to none" excellent support.
That's cracked it! - Foxit didn't seem to work, but installed Chrome and it reads the PDF fine! It is a very wide tree so that is obviously the reason.

Again thank you for a great product and superb support.

Mike