GenoPro Support Forum

The skin can only be used to generate Reports on the local disc, not to web sites using the FTP interface. This is because it runs Inkscape after each genomapx.svg has been generated to convert it to PDF format. Hence also Inkscape (version 0.46 or later) must be installed on your PC to. The conversion is switched on and off via a config param.

You can move your report to the web afterwards using an FTP client. (GenoPro FTP client for familytrees.genopro.com)

The Pdfs are then displayed where normally the SVG files would have been. Note that there are no hyperlinks from the pdfs to detail pages or other GenoMaps and no mouse-over tooltips.. Although the pdf format supports hyperlinking the Inkscape converter does not.

Also there is no highlighting when you display the pdf via the tree icon next to an individual's name on his/her detail page. And I have not quite sorted out the zoom to centre on the individual.

It seems to work best with Firefox and Adobe Reader. I'm using FF 2.0.0.14 and Adobe Reader 8.1.2 on Vista. I actually prefer the Foxit PDF reader but although it works it does not support open parameters to set initial,zoom and centreing.

I also had problems with IE 7 and Adobe Reader 8.1.2. getting the pdfs to open in a browser, it keeps launching the free standing Reader application instead

Using PDFs instead of SVG has some plus points. Mainly performance - panning and zooming is much smoother and works for large GenoMaps as well.  You can also print them any size you want. (This makes my earlier skin for generating SVGs for printing as PDFs obsolete.)

Update 2008/06/11 skin updated
Update 2008/06/12 further update to skin
Update 2008/06/15 minor fix for other languages
Update 2008/07/02 auto thumbnail generation via IrfanView for SVG & PDF images
Update 2008/07/28 optimised auto thumbnail generation for all pictures.
Update 2008/07/28 corrected default text direction for config params.
Update 2008/07/29 added partial circumvention to pictures in labels problem.