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This is a Howto on how to make a relationship chart (can be ancestors, descendants, ...) with GRAMPS 2.2.x. and the Relationship plugin.[[Image:RelationshipChartDescendants.png|right|thumb|300px|An example chart]] The report is made with the graphviz backend, so you need to install graphviz first ([http://graphviz.org). The goal is to offer a complete howto/tutorial graphviz] (on using this reportlinux, from conception, to using use your report (poster printing, ...package manager).

* [http://graphviz.org Graphviz]: '''required''', whithout this, no for relationship chartcharts* [http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape]: for viewing and editing svg charts, export to png* [http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/ gv], [http://linuxappfinder.com/package/kghostview kghostview]: for viewing ps charts

* [http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html adobe reader], [http://linuxappfinder.com/package/kpdf kpdf]: for viewing pdf charts* [http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ LibreOffice] or [http://www.openoffice, koffice.org/ OpenOffice] or [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra]: for viewing odt documents

In GRAMPS you can define filters to make a selection of individuals, see [[Example_filters| Examples of filters]]. In the relationship chart all custom person filters you made will be available, as well as the standard descendants and ancestors filters. These last start from the active person. {{man tip|Tip|You can add to a family stepchildren by setting the relationship of the child to the mother to ''step child''. In doing so, these children will be part of a descendant report without the need to create a custom filter to include them.}} === How many people ?===Your filter can contain as many people as you want. Note however that printing or viewing of large charts can be very problematic.  == Example 1-A: a descendant chart ==[[Image:RelationshipChartDescendants.png|right|thumb|200px|A descendant chart, click for details]]Download [http://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gramps/trunk/example/gramps/data.gramps?view=markup&pathrev=10822 example.gramps], on this page use the {{man label|Download}} link, create a new database in GRAMPS called example, and import the example.gramps data into it. If not the case, set the active person to ''Garner, Lewis Anderson''.  To make a descendant chart with the relationship report, choose the menu item {{man menu|Reports -> Graphical reports -> Relationship graph...}} In the dialog, set the format to .png and chose the following in the tabs available:#'''Paper Options '''-> Size : Custom Size (Set width and height to 10000 cm, or some other large value)#'''Report Options '''-> Filter: Descendants of Garner, Lewis Andersson #'''Layout optons '''-> Aspect ratio: minimal size (I sometimes experience problems setting the sizes in the Paper options dialog. A workaround is to use the example using graphviz code in example 3 below.) The result (using gramps 2.2.7) can be seen to the right. You can use print this on a dedicated printer (check dpi of png!), or you can use this image on a website to share. In the last case, you can use the trick explained in [[Make flash plugin from a png]], to make the resulting graph easier to navigate. In the image you see males in blue, females in pink and the yellow balloons indicate a family node in which a marriage date is printed (if known). You can select not to see this family node by deselecting in the '''Graphviz Options''' tab the option ''Show family nodes''. == Example 1-B: a chart with ancestors ==[[Image:RelationshipChartAncestors_small.png|left|thumb|350px|Fig. An ancestor chart. For the detailed image, [[Media:RelationshipChartAncestors.png| click here (853kb!)]]]]   Download and open the example.gramps file as in Example 1   Set ''Warner, Carl Thomas'' to be the active person. Repeat the process in Example 1-a, but choose the filter ''Ancestors of Warner, Carl Thomas'' this time.  You can see the result to the left.    This is already an extremely large graph.     It can only be readily viewed in a good image viewer.  For printing you need to resort to printing on several pages, or you need access to a large plotter. == Example 2: A chart with ancestors, descendants and their families ==[[Image:RelationshipChartAncestorsAndDescendants_small.png|right|thumb|450px|Fig. A large chart. For the detailed image, [[Media:RelationshipChartAncestorsAndDescendants.png| click here (363kb!)]]]] Note: This example uses filters. See [[Example filters| Examples of filters]] for an introductory example.    Open the file example.gramps and select Cristiansen, Frances as the active person. First we create a helper filter:Open the filter editor and create a new filter, called '''Frances1'''. The filter should contain the rules * ''Ancestors of <person>'' choose Christiansen, Frances and check <tt>inclusive</tt>.* ''Descendants of <person>'' chose Christiansen, Frances     Make sure that "At least one rule must be fulfilled" is chosen, so that we get both ancestors and descendants!  Now we create the filter we will actually use for the report. It will be based on the previous filter: Create a new filter, called '''Frances2'''. This filter should contain the rules: * ''People matching the filter'', choose Frances1* ''Parents of filter'' Frances1* ''Siblings of filter'' Frances1* ''Spouses of filter'' Frances1    Now close the filter editor, and follow the instructions given in Examples 1a and 1b, but this time choosing the filter '''Frances2''' in the '''Report Options''' tab.      The result is visible to the right (363kb, large file !) == Example 3, Generating the graph by using the Graphviz command line tool ==

|<center style="font-size:100%">'''TipNote:''' You can add The current stable version of [http://graphviz.org Graphviz] (v2.12) has a bug. In order to a correctly display the family stepchildren by setting the relationship nodes (yellow balloons), all occurrences of the child to the mother word ''ellipse'' should be changed to ''step childegg''(see [http://www.graphviz.org/bugs/b1078. In doing so, these children will be part of a descendant html bug report without the need to create a custom filter to include them1078]).</center>

In the menu, select {{man menu|Reports -> Graphs -> Relationship Graph...}}. Select in file format: graphviz file, which defaults to the gv extension. This fileis then a dot file which can be processed by graphviz. Eg, to make from the gv file a ps file, Gramps uses: dot -Tps:cairo -o"file.ps" "file.gv" for svg: dot -Tsvg -o"file.svg" "file.gv" Choose the filter you want to use, and set also as many of the other options as possible to the desired values (as explained in Example 1-A) This file is a text file, so it can be opened in any text-editor. ===Manual changes == How many people ?=The dot file is a text file with a well explained structure, for extra info: [http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation.php www.graphviz.org]  digraph GRAMPS_graph { bgcolor=white; center="true"; charset="iso-8859-1"; concentrate="false"; dpi="75"; graph [fontsize=12]; ... then the actual GRAMPS data are shown: I3493 [ shape="box" fillcolor="pink" style="solid,filled" label="Blancke, Charlotte\n(1801)" ];Your filter ...You can contain as many people optimize the layout by making changes in the file. *For paper size: look for the "page" (paper size) and "size" (area of paper to use), and change these to '''some large values'''. This is important as otherwise the figure will be wrongly scaled giving bad picture quality (eg unreadable text). *You can also change the font by adding a font family. Look for the lines node [style=filled fontsize="12"];:and change that into eg node [style=filled fontsize="12" fontname="Sans"];:to use the Sans font. On the command line you will see which ttf font Graphviz finds on your PC (using the verbose flag, see below). ===Generation of the Image===Save the modified file under the name ''report.dot'', and run the command dot -Tpng -oreport.png report.dotThis should use the graphviz "dot" tool to generate the .png file containing the report. To see information messages (like font) use the -v flag. You can also output other image formats, eg, for jpeg with verbose output: dot -Tjpg -oreport.jpg report.dot -v ... Activated plugin library: libgvplugin_pango.so.5 Using textlayout: textlayout:cairo Activated plugin library: libgvplugin_dot_layout.so.5 Using layout: dot:dot_layout Using render: cairo:cairo Activated plugin library: libgvplugin_gd.so.5 Using device: jpg:cairo:gd The plugin configuration file: /usr/lib/graphviz/config4 was successfully loaded. render : cairo dot fig gd map ps svg vml vrml xdot layout : circo dot fdp neato nop nop1 nop2 twopi textlayout : textlayout device : canon cmap cmapx cmapx_np dia dot fig gd gd2 gif hpgl imap imap_np ismap jpe jpeg jpg mif mp pcl pdf pic plain plain-ext png ps ps2 svg svgz vml vmlz vrml vtx wbmp xdot xlib loadimage : (lib) gd gd2 gif jpe jpeg jpg png ps dot: fontname "Times-Roman" resolved to: "Times New Roman, Normal" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman.ttf network simplex: 11 nodes 10 edges 0 iter 0.00 sec mincross: pass 0 iter 0 trying 0 cur_cross 0 best_cross 0 mincross GRAMPS_graph: 0 crossings, 0.00 secs. network simplex: 23 nodes 37 edges 7 iter 0.00 sec routesplines: 10 edges, 30 boxes 0.00 sec Using render: cairo:cairo Using device: jpg:cairo:gd... == Printing large graphs ==If you wantto print large graphs (especially with photos and other details) in reasonable readable quality, the following steps should work:# In Document Options choose SVG as output format. Note however that printing # Setup paper format to fit graph into one sheet (SVG cannot handle more than one sheet), so choose A0 or viewing of large charts can be very problematiccustom size.# Use [http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape] for opening SVG graph.# Menu File/Document properties, use "Fit page to selection" function (fix size accordingly to graph size).# Menu File/Save as, choose PDF format.

== Example 1You now have a large poster you could print. Inkscape cannot tile PDF for printing large graphs on many A4/A3 sheets, so you must use another software to do it for you. At home, you can print this on multiple A4/A3 sheets with other programs: * In Linux, the poster command line utility can split a descendant chart ==poster over A4/A3/Letter. Download *# Install it via your package manager (or on CLI type for eg Ubuntu: ''sudo apt-get install poster''*# Read the man page, to eg split an A0 poster which is in postscript format, over 16 A4 do: poster -iA0 -mA4 -pA0 posterA0.ps > posterA4.ps * For Linux, Windows and Mac, you can also use the program [http://gramps.svnposterazor.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkoutPosterRazor], which has an easy to use interface.* For Windows, you can use [http:/gramps/trunkwww.noliturbare.com/gramps2pdf-tools/examplepdf-tiler Govert's PDF Tiler] (can maybe run on Linux too using [http:/gramps/examplewww.gramps?revision=7186 examplemono-project.grampscom/Main_Page Mono], create a new database in GRAMPS called exampleneeds .grdb, and import the example.gramps data into itNET 1.1)

== Troubleshooting ==*If not you encounter bad fonts (missing characters) or wrong fontsizes, see Example 3 on how you can set the casefont yourself.*If you have a bad resolution of png, eg unreadable text, this is probably because you have set a paper size which is to small. See Exampe 1-A: set the home person papersize of number of pages to Garnera high number, but select in '''Layout Options''', in Aspect ratio: <tt>automatically use optimal number pages</tt>, Lewis Anderson or use <tt>minimal size</tt>

To make {{man warn|Reports and custom IDs|After a descendant chart with the relationship reportGEDCOM import, go to your database can use some non-standard IDs (ie.123I or 456U not set on {{man menu|Edit --> Preferences --> Identifiants ID}}).If generated reports do not properly display data, then try [[Gramps_3.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Tools#Reorder_GRAMPS_ID|Reorder GRAMPS IDs tool]] ({{man menu|Tools-->Database Processing-->Reorder GRAMPS IDs}}). TODO}}

* You can make descendant charts and add them to the media gallery of the person. Like that, the cart chart is available from the website. * offer a chart on your website as a [[Make flash plugin from a png |flash relationship graph]], enabling zooming, moving, ... over your dataor just use SVG for Firefox and Opera, see [http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=UnsupportedPlugins#DenominoViso_-_HTML_Ancestors_page DenominoViso] == Want to help developing ? ==If you go through the dot specifications, you will note that more can be done with graphics. If you have programming skills you can add some functionality:* more/better text in the boxes: what text and how to organize it?* coloring. See the [[Familylines plugin]]: a color per family, for specific relations, for the central person, ... == Link to the manual ==Also check out the [http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_3.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Reports#Relationship_Graph Wiki Manual].