John Moran

Leslie- You might give this forum a try, from a google search for "footnote margins wordperfect" http://home.earthlink.net/~wptoolbox/Tips/FNEN.html

As to margins, check your printer driver in Wordperfect. Assuming that your right and left margins are OK, make sure that your particular printer is capable of printing to within 0.25 inches (.12 inches preferred) so that "footer" sizing does not get screwed up. If it is a an older Epson Photo Inkjet printer , you may be out of luck and have to run it through a pdf converter in Worperfect. If it is a newer Epson Inkjet, you may find a minimize margins setting in Control Panel>Printers/faxes. If neither is a problem, perhaps the missing Arial font will get the footnotes back in synch. John

Although WP 8 was a *transition* version with lots of reported problems, is it possible that your computer is missing a required version of the Arial font? That is, check Windows Character Map to see if your computer has only the old single byte English/Latin Arial, or is using the English/Latin mapping of Arial Unicode font? You might even poke around in Regional Settings in Control panel to see if anything is miss. You are using Win XP? But sometimes it's easier to just give up and go with what works.<g> John

Tom- Keeping in mind that I no longer actually buy color ink, (although the wife thinks several cartridges every now and then is no problem for her Epson All-in-one) and that I never never actually bought any computer printer/plotter capable of printing wider than 8 1/2 inches (although I did have a wide carriage Smith-Corona manual portable typewriter at one time), this is what your Epson Stylus Photo 2200 driver seems to indicate when downloaded onto my XP sustem. Maximum User defined paper width x length of 12.95 inches (~33 cm) x 129.00 inches (327.67 cm). Standard minimum non-printable area of .12 inches on sides and top/left. Standard minimum non-printable area of .55 inches on bottom/right in Landscape mode. With "Minimize margins" selected in driver Advanced settings in Control Panel, non-printable area of .12 inches all around. Printer resolutions from 360 dpi (or perhaps effectively less in draft mode) up to 2880 dpi, depending on paper quality, are selectable, even at these chart sizes. All of these resolutions *may* be operable in TMG VCF on Win XP, but don't necessarily expect more than 88 inches at 360 dpi quality on FTM in either Win 98 or XP for a single raster print. If this *standard* SP 2200 printer driver is indeed capable of "continuous/contiguous", non-advance of the paper between rasters banner printing, then perhaps relatively longer charts could seemingly be obtained in FTM. But not really in the 16 bit GDI: 32,767/8 pixels is the limit, even if scaling up of Truetype vector fonts with tiling makes it look better than a straight raster print. Note, non-printable margin numbers were derrived from FTM 10 Printer setup by selecting Zero (0) inches all around and letting windows reset. Or so it seems in theory. Actual mileage may vary with real paper and ink. Good luck. John

Correction: It is my understanding that Adobe Photoshop, and perhaps other Adobe applcations, clip at 30,000 pixels. PhotoImpact, the editor I use, clips at 32,000.

To followup, Epson printers only print maximum of 16 bits (32,768) pixels in the long direction without tiling. Clip this down to 32,000 pixels in Adobe Photoshop and divide by 360 pixels/inch and you get ~ 88.9 inches, plus margins. Current Epson Desktop printers output half that length, ~44 inches at 720 dpi. FTM may appear to give longer charts by retaining 16 bit tiling compatibility with older perforated "computer paper" dot matrix impact printer drivers and a few others from the injet age. This was once referred to as banner printing. Most modern desktop printer drivers do not support printing tiled contiguous sheets with zero paper advance between raster printouts, perhaps because the manufactures to not want to handle the support calls for mis-matched images. The irony of this is that FTM can seem to give longer printouts than TMG's VCF on a Win 98 platform, but in reality VCF can far exceed FTM at higher resolution on an NT/XP 32 bit GDI platform, where FTM may be limited to 55 inches at 600 dpi with stock NT large format HP printer drivers.

David- As a start, you might consider sending your favorite report through the TMG "pdf printer" to Adobe Reader. Then from within Adobe reader, and with your report file open onscreen, click on the File menu. Select the Email option and send an attachment direct from Adobe Reader. If the attached file size is too big for your Internet Service Provider, read MS Oulook Express Help> Search>Attachments>Send large messages. Never tried that way of breaking up small files, and just found it, but it is worth a try. Don't forget to deselect that option in Oulook express for your next regular Email. If that doesn't work, post again. The regulars should be over their motion sickness by then. Good luck, John

Once in the DNA log screen, if at 800x600 resolution, click "maximize" in upper right corner to see button selections at bottom of screen. Otherwise it looks like a big plain text memo box.

Elegant? Not even close, but here's something that occured to me after reading the thread on this subject on TMG-L recently. This assumes that year One (1) is the beginning (or 100 years before) of the Jewish calendar or some other baseline of that era. TMG Date constrictions to years 100-3000 might be worked around for biblical dates as follows: Divide biblical dates by two and enter this date in sort column. This will give sorting capability up to 6000 years, give or take a few odd_year divide problems. This should make TMG sort correctly. Enter biblical date years 100- 3000 correctly in "non-sort" Data field. Enter years 3000-6000 incorrectly with a minus 3000 year offset and a "circa", "before", or "after" modifier that will print in RTF reports. That is, the year 4751 would be entered as 1751. Then edit the report in a Text Editor (Word) to find all instances of "circa", "before", or "after" dates and manually add 3000 years. Might work. Haven't tried it. Assumes a separate project, perhaps. <g>

Irfanview 3.97 (freeware) has batch file renaming capability.

Perhaps it would be simpler to create a new folder in the same path, copy all TMG linked jpegs over, and remame them to all Upper Case. Or consider using the AutoCorrect feature of OpenOffice.org Writer to build a new Find/Replace library of ALL CAPS vs. Mixed case jpeg filenames. (You would only have to do this once for each filename, no matter how many times you re-export TMG Gedcoms). OOo AutoCorrect can change the incorrect TMG GEDCOM links back to your original mixed case filenaming connvention. It may not be necessary to change the entire path, but if so, the path could be changed globally, and the filnames could be changed individually.

With default preferences, at 800x600 display, after a filter operation is performed the "Clear" and other buttons at the bottom of the "Filter the Picklist" screen may be hidden below the Windows Taskbar. Thus users may not be reminded to clear the fiter before proceeding. Counter-intuitively, if the "Filter the Picklist" screen is maximized, the "Clear" and other buttons are visible at the 800x600 resolution. Same with the "Report Definition Screens", it seems. Suggestion: Maximize; don't used default scrunched Report Screens at 800x600.

MS Word 2002 makes indenting "wordwrapped" lines in the DIC Chart difficult. OpenOffice.org Writer makes it a little less difficult. That is, the Tab Key can be used to move wordwrapped second lines to the right without also displacing the start of the ine above. Seems to print O.K. Reason: Perhaps because OOo requires you to download non-unicode MS Linedraw font. (MS Word maps box drawing characters from Courier New.)

Belay the use of OpenOffice.org Writer. Word 2002 works just fine to touch up the Descendant Indented Chart. Gotta quit reading the TMG-L list. Hint: Use Copy/Paste with the mouse to repair the vertical line opening by copying (Courier New) linedraw character just above opening caused by wordwrap. Then use tab to move wrapped text to right..

Is it possible to use the Family Group Sheet Report to accomplish much of what was asked for in this posting from the Pre-Sales forum? Renaming the Family Group Sheet to something like "Longshoreman's Union" would seem to be a start in re-orienting one's thinking. (partial quote) "Need for GROUP or ORGANIZATION Entry (Master List of Sorts) There is one need that I have that I'm not sure I get with TMG and that is the implementation of Groups as is in the GENTECH Data Model. I would like to have the ability to keep track of what groups (civic groups, Churches, corporations, clubs, etc.) were in a particular town at a particular time and then link people and events to these groups. Does TMG or some other software have this capability?" (unquote) I noticed in Options on the Report Definition Screens for the Family Group Sheet Report, that deselecting "Restrict to BMDB Group Events" on the Tags Tab seems to go a long way to opening up the Event filtering possibilities. Use of the UFT Sample Kennedy Gedcom instead of the TMG Sample made things seem a little clearer too, but what are the pitfalls? (Lots of events for JFK)

Not knowing where to start, what I had done in retrospect was to filter the small sample Kennedy database (from UFT) for the Education Event, and then sub filter for a specific Place, Princeton University in New Jersey. This gave me only one individual on the filtered list (JFK, former US president) who had attended Princeton University in the state of New Jersey, USA. I extrapolated my thinking and assumed TMG would work properly for additional individuals, inasmuch as there were three different Name-Var tags involved. Then I started looking for a reporting method to print out primarily individual data on JFK and any other persons who might have been tagged with the EDUCATION Event and matriculated in New Jersey. The Family Group Sheet seemed appropriate, since it had the name Group in it, and was not totally multi-generationally ancestor and descendant oriented. But the FGS can be rather verbose, too, so using another TMG report to print an EDUCATION Event filtered, and Place sub-filterd "List of People" may be more appropriate. Please bear with me on this, for I am venturing where I had not ventured before, and was only trying to provide a response to a prospective new user of TMG who asked a question on the restricted Pre-Sales forum. And, of course learn something about a process I might not have tried on my own for a while, which is the whoe point of reading the forums. John Moran

It seemed to be a point on the curve, on the subject of case sensitivity. However, if it is determined that, for whatever reason, that GEDCOM files need case sensitivity in paths to the multimedia files, the paths can be easily globally changed in MS Word Find/Replace UP TO the actual jpg file name. The individual file names will have to be handled manually.

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforum...9&enterthread=y

Starting from scratch with a new project, what are the advantages/disadvantages of trying to import UFT's role descriptions?

Not exactly. Keep clicking. Look for handles, then look for tooltips.

Lorna- I suspect we are both victims of the 800x600 dpi display syndrome. Peek under the Windows Taskbar at the bottom for a Clear button. FWIW, yesterday I had just done a sort of a sample database that produced only one individual with three different "aliases". So it was pretty easy for me to tell that something was wrong. And then I read you post immediately thereafter. This morning it occurred to me that there had to be a "reset" button somewhere. John

Try clicking on "Filter" button and then select blank (no visible text) in left dropdown list.

1. The "properties" fields display seems to vary with the make and model of the photo editor associated with the jpeg files. Some fields seem to display some of the data some of the time; depends. "Caption" and "Title" field descriptions in different viewers may contain the same embedded text. My experience on my computer only may be improved by having Microsoft "Picture It" 10 installed on my computer. It looks like I can enter keywords from (pre Win XP) Ulead PhotoImpact 6 properties viewer and then, perhaps, search for them in MS Picture It! 10. It's mix and match, but the Keywords field and the Caption/Title field may be common to most editor/viewer displays?? In any event, between the combined Keyword search capabilities of Picture It!, the XP operating system, and Adobe's PhotoShop, it seems that one could start embedding searchable data in the jpegs with some confidence of being able to do a meaningful search at a later date. 2. Thanks for the heads up. It did not occur to me to look in other file's properties, such as doc. John

John Gregson- As per private e-mail to you, based on your continuing problems noted on TMG-L list, I dropped my laser printer down from 1200x600 dpi resolution to 600x600 resolution and got a line I can see with only three diopter correction, instead of five. Suggest you try to reduce the quality of your printout until you see a line showing you where to set your paper cutter. Good luck, John Moran

In XP (not Win9x), goto your My Pictures Folder. Left click on any jpeg photo that you would just as soon delete anyway to select it and practice. Right click on the selected photo. Choose Properties. Type away in the data fields. The entered data will be attached at the beginning of your JPEG file, and will stay there with the Camera manufacturer's EXIF data, if any. Caution: modifying the jpeg file size, resolution, etc. with the MS XPExplorer photo editor/viewer *may* alter or erase EXIF camera data, according to some users. If you like the idea of entering data, but don't find enough data fields for your purposes in XP Explorer, consider downloading Irfanview Photo Viewer to use its additional freeform JPEG Comment field and also the IPTC template data fields. Searching for unique Keywords can be done with any Windows Operating System File Tree Search function thereafter, but data fields cannot be viewed, in, say, Win 98. (Unless the JPEG is opened in a copy MS Picture It!10, a copy of MS Digital Suite, or some txt editor, which may or may not be deemed third party). Clear as mud? Good luck, John