Descendant B Report

A double graphical descendant report showing (when given a center family):

1. a descendant report of the center family's father's parents
2. a descendant report of the center family (joining above and below)
3. a descendant report of the center family's mother's parents

Report Options

As this is a plugin report, the standard 'Paper Options' will apply.

Style

For this report there is one more style option; Title. The report title can be sized individually and defaults to seven sizes larger than the standard font size. If there are lots of children under the center family, you may need to make a new style with a smaller font size so the report title isn't too long.

Personal

Center children of Family

This will be the center family for the report.

Generations

the parents of dad and mom will always be shown

1 - Show the parents and siblings of the parents only

2 - (default) Show children of the above. Cousins will be shown with this option

3 - Children of the above (Grandchildren of the parents)

etc

Personal Display Format

How individuals will be displayed. This also includes spouses.

Bold direct descendants

Whether direct descendants of the parents, parents (grandparents) will be bolded.

This does not include half or step children

Compress Personal Display Format

If a line is blank because the information is not available, do not print that line.

example, if a line show 'd. $d $D', this line will not be printed if the person is still alive or no information is given for death.

Spouse

Level of spouses

0 - Do not show any spouses of direct children

1 - show spouses of the above

2 - show spouses of the above (spouses of spouses)

etc

Indent Spouses

if selected, spouses will be indented a little from their spouses. Spouses of Spouses will be indented a little bit further, etc.

Include Marriage information

like the Personal Display Format, how do you wish to format Marriage information for the parents of a family.

Replace

make a line for each replacements that you wish to make like replace this/with this This is useful for very long entries. An example birth place would be 'room 2, maternity ward, some hospital, this county, that state, United States of America' Also abbreviating countries and other things helps, cut down the width of a report. This is very useful so scaling the report and excessive white space can be cut down.

Print

Scale report to fit

Do not scale report. This option works great with the 'One Page Report' option.

Scale report to fit page width only. This option works great for Kinko's 36" wide roll printer (also select the 'One Page Report' option). Also use this option to make 1Xn page reports.

Scale report to fit the size of the page. With this option the 'One Page Report' option is useles.

One page report

Scale up or down the size of the page (whether verticaly or both vertically and horizontally) to fit the natural size of the report. Note that this WILL most likely make irregular page sizes. Great for Emailing to relatives and Kinkos can size to print too.

Include Report Title

If the center family has children the report will show 'Cousin Chart for ' and list the children

If not the parents names will be listed.

Print Page Numbers

Page numbers will be printed on the lower right hand corner of the report.

Include Blank Pages

on multiple page reports, if nothing is on a page, specify to print the page anyway.

Advanced Usage

Know the page size you want to print to first.

This is actually very important. There are lots of different things you can do.

If you are printing at home you know what you can print on. If you are printing somewhere else (I use Kinkos a bit), know what they can print on (and how much). example, my Kinkos has a 36 inch wide printer. The paper is on a roll so height is not an issue. So if the report is too long, use the replace option to get it down. then use the scale to width and one page option.

Also don't rule out Landscape. I've made quite a few legal paper reports that were landscape, and fitted to width. Makes an easy report to put together, either taped or bound one page after the other.

Make a new style

A new style will allow you to play with the report title. Changing the font size will change the width and height. No duh. But if there are LOTS of kids the title can be much wider than the report and that creates a problem. In this case you can scale down the title font size to make the two widths match up better. Also if there is only one or two children, you may want a larger title (if you have the height to do so)

Generations / Indent Spouses / Replace

This is more than likely the width of your report. Using replace option correctly can give a better report and maybe room to get in another generation

Compress Personal Display

Do you want every line printed all of the time so people can write on it? Or remove blank lines to really shrink up the height of a report.

Replace text

The size of all of the columns is set to the longest line. Really it is the widest as length does not stipulate width (the letter 'i' is much shorter than the letter 'W"). So changing/abbreviating the widest line will shrink ALL of the columns.

Scaling the size of the ...

When using 'Scale report to fit page width only' look into using the replace option first when working with a report that is too wide. This will decrease the amount that the font size has to decrease. Thus the readability will increase.