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Thanks for the thought Peter. I've just tried that and it doesn't help. I've now looked at the jpeg FH created with Photoshop and discovered that when FH creates a jpeg for a diagram it uses a resolution of 96ppi. However FH uses 300ppi when saving a diagram as a PDF. This means that for any output ...

Just researched the question of PDF limits a bit more and found this information in PDF Reference Sixth Edition, Version 1.7 . Beginning with PDF 1.6 and Acrobat 7.0 the maximum PDF page size can be up to 15,000,000 inches! Here is an extract from note 177 in Appendix H of the above document that ma...

Peter, I've downloaded IrfanView and all its plugins. It's a very useful program. It converts jpegs to PDFs but the max size PDF that Irfanview supports is 1189mm x 841mm (A0). This is much smaller than I get by saving PDF's via Family Historian. A Family Historian PDF comes out at 3250mm x 1081.7mm...

Thanks Peter, I don't have IrfanView but I'll download it and see what it can do.

According to my PDF settings the maximum size PDF I can have is 3250mm x 1081.7mm. I have created a family tree diagram, which when saved as a PDF, slightly exceeds that and extends onto two pages. The only way I have found to overcome the PDF limitation and only create one page is to reduce the sca...

Thanks Bill, it's no problem! This has been an educational thread for me and I plan to try and improve my understanding of expressions and functions as a result. Mike and PeterR, many thanks for your thoughts on the use of the Properties Tab 'Age' box. I'm now thinking about how I can use it in addi...

I see. However, if an age is given on a document I use that to enter an estimated/approximate date of birth. I feel this has the advantage of enabling a calculated age for all other facts. The only drawback I see with that is that ages are sometimes incorrect on documents, that other documents for t...

Many thanks to all for the quick responses. I apologise for the delay in replying but my internet connection died after I posted my question. I was not aware that the expression I used (created by FH after clicking 'Age' in the list of fields then '>') was linked to the age field on the property box...

I have made a custom query to list all occupations recorded in the family history, the name of the individual employed in that occupation, the date and place of employment, and their age. To create this I copied the 'All Facts' query and customized it to list only occupation facts. All is working fi...

I like your idea of introducing a Custom Fact to achieve the outcome I want. The only snag being the amount of work involved without a plugin to automate the process. I've not yet looked at what's involved in writing plugins but will do so. I used to write software for mainframe computers in Assembl...

Thanks for clarifying that Peter, that was helpful. Having read the links Mike gave me and the points you made this is clearly a much wider and more complex topic than I had envisaged when I made my post. I still feel that its important that child births be recorded in their parents list of events a...

Thanks too for the link to Wish List 60 which I'm just reading now.

Many thanks for the quick response. I followed your suggestions and they certainly display some of the child birth information in Main Section Items . Unfortunately this results in a certain amount of duplication in that section unless I set the Children label to Hide , but if I set that to hide I t...

When looking at the Facts tab for an individual I can see listed within it birth events for each of that individuals children. However, when I publish a DVD using the Individual Summary Report (for Web, CD, or DVD) option these birth events do not appear in the Individual Events and Attributes secti...

Thanks for the feedback Mike, following up on your hints I have now discovered the cause. The image concerned is linked to an individual for whom the 'living' flag is set, and in the DVD Publish>Make a Family Tree CD/DVD I had set the 'Show basic details only' for Individuals when the living flag is...

I don't understand why one of the images associated with a Residence attribute is not making it onto a DVD file when I publish it. All other images associated with residence attributes (that I've checked so far) are appearing on the DVD file. The image in question is linked to a residence attribute ...

I've been using 5.0.9 for some time now and the 'Stopped Working' problem seems to have been fixed, it has never happened since using this trial version.

Thanks for noting that Mike, I plan to create a DVD shortly and will check this out.

Calico Pie have provided me with a fix (5.0.9) which hopefully will resolve the 'stopped working' problem I reported. I have copied below my reply to them which includes the result of the first test of 5.0.9 and some more recent history with 5.0.7. - Reply to Calico Pie: Many thanks for the trial up...

Family Historian Support have confirmed that ignoring the max size option is a bug - this is what they say -

'Thank you for pointing that out. I can confirm that it is a bug. It will be fixed in the next minor upgrade, which will be made available as a free upgrade for version 5 users.'

Thanks Mike for the Calico Pie link and to Keith for letting me know I'm not alone!

I've summarized the problem in an email to Calico Pie support along with a link to this thread. Once I hear from them I'll report back here what they say.

Thanks Mike for the Calico Pie link and to Keith for letting me know I'm not alone!

I've summarized the problem in an email to Calico Pie support along with a link to this thread. Once I hear from them I'll report back here what they say.

Based on today's test the 'Stopped Working' problem looks like a memory allocation problem, at least in my case. Computer Boot 1 --------------- Before launching FH I opened Photoshop and made it open a very large 16 bit image. Then I launched FH - it crashed with the 'stopped working' error. When t...

I've looked back at my update record for FH and it is as follows; upgrade from v4 to v5.0.0 on 7 Apr 2012 upgrade from v5.0.0 to v5.0.5 on 26 Jun 2012 upgrade from v5.0.5 to v5.0.7 on 30 Jul 2012 These are the dates on which I downloaded these versions and I would have installed them on the same day...

Here are the latest tests to try and discover why the 'stopped working' issue arises. For today's tests both the firewall and anti-virus were active, FH preferences set back to have media thumbnails loaded automatically and no other application programs were open. The only thing changed since yester...