Emailing large diagrams

Forpm · Post by **Forpm** » 17 Nov 2008 18:55

I have over 700 people in my Family Historian diagram and I would like to email this to members of my family. What is the best way to do this? I have tried converting to jpg (not now possible as diagram is too large) and then converting this to a pdf using Acrobat. Any better ideas?

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g_mcallister · Post by **g_mcallister** » 17 Nov 2008 22:15

Have you tried 'printing' direct to a PDF printer such as PDFCreator. If you install PDFCreator (freeware) as a printer when you 'print' it creates a PDF file.
Having said that I am not sure how useful it will be as with 700 people on it they will only be able to view it a bit at a time on screen.

stephenjones · Post by **stephenjones** » 18 Nov 2008 07:45

Printing the tree to pdf is fine if you want to the recipients to print out the file. If they are going to view it on screen then they will see the file page by page, which isn't very helpful. If you want them to see the file on screen then you're better off exploring the options in File/Save Diagram As.

Forpm · Post by **Forpm** » 18 Nov 2008 11:39

Thanks. I simply want them to view it on screen in the same way that you can in FH. The problem is that I can't create a PDF page which is large enough to contain the tree just on one page rather than several.

stephenjones · Post by **stephenjones** » 18 Nov 2008 13:16

I think that rather than going for a jpeg file you might do better to select the enhanced metafile option from the File/Save Diagram As menu. If you make sure that you select Actual Size (100% zoom) then it will probably be OK. These files open by default in the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (at least they do on my system) so you can use the zoom controls to enlarge the image. The resolution seems much better than for jpeg and the file size is relatively small, which is also handy for emailing.

pricero1 · Post by **pricero1** » 18 Nov 2008 13:29

Don't give up on the PDF option. It is possible to fit even huge diagrams onto a single page PDF. See the How To section:

http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... _a_diagram

JonAxtell · Post by **JonAxtell** » 22 Nov 2008 20:05

With such a large diagram I would suggest splitting the diagram up into smaller sections, possibly a seperate diagram for each child of the key ancestor. I doubt anyone of your family would want to see all 700 people. It's just too much to be able to handle mentally.

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