In message of 22 Apr, Peter J Seymour <mozng@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I've just been implementing a timeline chart on Gendatam Suite. Of their
> nature these charts may be rather large and not fit conveniently on a
> printed page (not a problem for on-line viewing). I have arranged for
> such charts to print across as many pages as necessary. However, doing
> this causes me to think about how useful such multi-page charts are in
> practice. Do people often ****e over a grid of printed sheets?
I have a simple view: multi-page charts are a pain to handle, even on
the computer screen. I do not even think that many people can be fussed
to print out several pages and spend time sticking them together to form
a Big Chart.
On the other hand I do think that large charts are good for
communication of genealogies. Again they are not the easiest to handle
on a computer screen, not even when one has two linked screens side by
side forming one Big Screen. But most computers these days can be
persuaded to prepare charts in, say, A2 size; then you print that to a
PDF file, again a facility most computers can handle. The PDF file can
be viewed on screen but much more im****tantly it can be downloaded, put
on a CDROM and handed to your friendly local print shop for economical
printing on A2 paper.
The fact that I have an A2 printer beside me is entirely irrelevant.
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Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/
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