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| Thread ID: 68037 | 2006-04-15 03:00:00 | Printing a family tree | TideMan (4279) | PC World Chat |
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| 446398 | 2006-04-16 21:53:00 | Its clearly an Image. As a thought, you can use PSP7 or later? to break up an image into any number of squares (thats how large images are sometimes displayed on a website. Once the image is broken up, youll need to print them out individually then tape together with sellotape whatever. As someone who thought Genealogy was a dry dusty subject, I changed my tune 10yrs back, I helped a retiree learn about PCs and GEDCOM files. I caught the bug myself taking it as far as I could locally but now admit defeat when GPs live on the other side of the world. You may find Genealogy more interesting if the data was more current than the 100yr breakoff point used in your image. Someone has spent a lot of time researching that info, hang on to it!. HTH John in Mosgiel. Id like to know what program was used to create that image. |
John W (523) | ||
| 446399 | 2006-04-16 23:06:00 | Have you considered the size page you would need to print it all in a readable form. Is it possable to save it as a ged-com? Then you could open it in any popular genealogy program, and print it out in report form Grraphic files are far to big to be useable. I have a 5000+ name file and discussed getting it printed by a commercial printer. It can be done but the cost would be prohibitive. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 446400 | 2006-04-17 01:00:00 | Thanks people for your suggestions. I started splitting into screen-sized pages using PrtScn and printing those from within a graphics program, but I very quickly got totally stuffed up with what went where and gave up. Someone commented that it's "obviously" an image, but I'm not so sure when you look at the html code. First of all a set of boxes is defined, then they are filled with the names and dates. Maybe there's a way to do this using html? |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 446401 | 2006-04-17 01:28:00 | Yeah - I'm not too sure what John was trying to get at. In any case, I think you need to find a way to print to a ficticious size of paper (eg. 2m by 2m) to a PDF file, and then "split" that when you print it. I know some printer drivers let you print "posters" where it will automatically split an oversized file into smaller chunks and print them out in an appropriate order. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 446402 | 2006-04-17 06:28:00 | It's not an image. This seems to be one of the difficulies of using css. If it was constructed using tables it might be easier to reconstruct from the html page. I dont know anything about the programme that created the html page but it must be able to "export" or "save as" in other formats - I presume you have access to the original programme. |
dvm (6543) | ||
| 446403 | 2006-04-17 06:32:00 | Sorry to be grim, with the infomation you have, you could just make your own version on to a different format. But I guess it loses the point of having that one in the first place. :illogical | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 446404 | 2006-04-17 08:18:00 | Further cross-examination/interrogation of my father-in-law reveals that the person who prepared this uses Brothers Keeper to prepare the data, then uses Second Site to transform them into a tree in html. "So, why don't you ask her to send you the Brothers Keeper file", says I. "Yes! Then I could print it in my normal fashion", says he, "And I could add my bits and correct the mistakes." :groan: :groan: |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 446405 | 2006-04-17 08:34:00 | Sorry, I thought it was an image, until I looked at the code, struth. I saved the htm file and used Adobe PDF to convert it, but all I get is pages of names with Birth,death info, not the timeline you are after. Ill pass on this one for a while. Are you able to get the GEDCOM that cerated this info? Cheers......John. |
John W (523) | ||
| 446406 | 2006-04-17 09:31:00 | As someone who thought Genealogy was a dry dusty subject, I changed my tune 10yrs back, I helped a retiree learn about PCs and GEDCOM files . I caught the bug myself taking it as far as I could locally but now admit defeat when GPs live on the other side of the world . You may find Genealogy more interesting if the data was more current than the 100yr breakoff point used in your image . Someone has spent a lot of time researching that info, hang on to it! . HTH John in Mosgiel . Completely OT but thought you all might be interested . I have a friend, also called John and who lives in Mosgiel (funny old world :D ) who has been researching his geneology . But he ran out of physical records a couple of centuries back . Instead he is part of a web based geneology data-base . Had his DNA entered (US $50) and so far has traced his ancestors to a small village in the southern part of Ireland . He is in touch with a 52nd cousin in Washington DC who runs the database . The only reason these two guys know they are related is because they can track it through their own DNA . There is another database which lists surnames and locations . Screeds of info . Can't quite recall how it worked but my friend demonstrated where my surname originated from approximately in Scotland . You could see it spread over the years, bearing in mind that until 50 years ago, most human beings lived worked and married within 20 miles of their place of birth . |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 446407 | 2006-04-17 09:42:00 | If it's any use. www.johncardinal.com/ss/ |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
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