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I can't help with the plugin Kathryn, but there is a user-written template update for Ancestral Sources for the 1921 Census. See the following threads:

https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic ... 34&t=20047

https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic ... 34&t=20123

Merry Christmas Jane and all the Moderators. Thank you for all the help you give.

Adrian.

Mike,

I am running version 7.0.8.2, and the symptoms are the same as you describe if I follow your instructions in the first post.

I normally work with Preferred Position set as Bottom of Property Box so would not have noticed this previously.

Regards,
Adrian

I'm not going to go over most of the points being discussed here, but I did want to add that the media manipulation section is an absolute must for me and it is hugely convenient to have it in the GEDCOM export plugin. Yes, it could be argued that it is scope-creep from merely exporting a GEDCOM fil...

Do you use Flags to record whether someone has a Census for a particular year? If you do then this exercise is quite easy to accomplish with a Query. I'm sure others will be able to help if you don't use Flags.

I can't help with the technical questions you have asked, but it does occur to me that you might be making life hard for yourself by designing your own website and uploading data in a PDF to it. I do understand that this gives you maximum flexibility over the look and feel of what you want to presen...

I don't believe the attached plug in will be of any use to anyone except myself as it is very specific to my set up. However, if anyone wants to take it and modify it for their use, it should be easy to do, and I can probably help. As per the first post in this topic, the plugin runs through media i...

Thank you Mike, all great advice which I will take on board. I had used the field picker as suggested in your point (1) but I got a bit bogged down in recursive data and managed to miss what I was looking for. Your point (3) is very helpful; in my case using the _EXCL subtag works, but your method l...

Thanks Helen, I will take a look there.

Mike, as always you are an absolute treasure. Thank you for your guidance. I have been ploughing through the help files, etc., that you suggested and I'm making progress. This is probably a case of running before I can walk. I was getting confused trying to see how to get the Media OBJE via the INDI...

I would like to write a plugin but at the moment what I require is beyond my abilities, so I am asking for some guidance please. Being an ex-coder, I don't have too much of a problem in learning Lua and I have made some progress in it. However, getting at the data I need in FH is another matter. My ...

Thank you both. Apologies that I didn't see the Wish List item Mike, thanks for pointing me to it. And thanks for the tip Lorna, but I think I might be getting a bit obsessive if I start getting my ruler out for that!

I have searched diligently for an answer to this but I can't find anything - but apologies if there is an article somewhere I've missed. Is it possible to constrain the proportions of the surrounding box when adding a Frame Link to a media item, e.g., around a person's face? The general approach for...

Thanks Mike, that seems to be working for me (I have only tested the Individual Media Tab, not the others). Thanks again for your help.

Here's a before and after which might help illustrate what I'm trying to explain.

Before:

After:

Hello Mike, I have found one problem with the plugin. I flag non-photograph media documents as "Exclude from All Publications" (you can see this in the screenshot above). It appears that when a list of Individual Media has a mixture of Exclude from All Publications (i.e., both flags set) and No Excl...

Hi Mike,

That appears to be working perfectly! (I have only done a test on Individuals so far.) I will do a bit more testing and confirm back. I'm so grateful for your help, this has saved me weeks of tedium.

Adrian

Hello Mike, That is very kind of you, it is most generous and if I can help with anything please let me know. I know it is a bit of a niche request so please don't take any time if it works out to be too tricky. It is the Individual Media tab I am interested in. I have attached an example below. Ind...

I am aware that the media in the Media tab of the Individual Property Box automatically orders by date, with undated items being listed at the bottom. I know that the preference order can be changed using the black up/down arrows, and that the property box defaults back to date order rather than pre...

I have downloaded and installed the latest plugin you attached Mike. I did a full export including all the media, as we have discussed in another thread. All worked fine as far as I can see. No image-export errors were generated and the whole export took about the same time as previously discussed (...

I just did another run through, and for me, INDI took 4 minutes, SOUR took 5 minutes and the remaining types took just seconds. I suspect this is to do with the way I organise my media. At the moment, I do not have photo media in FH, except very small thumbnail images, one per person for people I ha...

Hello Mike, I have found some time this evening to run the tests and the results are below. The first set is run at the default values already in the code (100, 270). The errors stopped at (70, 300). There was no real measurable difference in the time taken to export. I have noted the times, but the...

Sorry Mike, real life got in the way! I will try my best to do it tonight/tomorrow.

Mike, in terms of the two garbagecollection functions, did you want me to change the parameters independently or in tandem with each other?

Some preliminary results. I ran the plugin using decreasing output size parameters, in steps of 100, i.e., 1200x1200, 1100x1100, ... , 600x600. I received 2 errors at 1200x1200, 1 error at 1100x1100, 1 error at 1000x1000 and no errors at 900x900 or lower. However, at 600x600, the documents become to...