Formatting of D by G Narrative Report

simonx · Post by **simonx** » 08 May 2009 17:20

The Descendants by Generation Narrative Report is my main output from FH. I am trying to understand why there are significant differences between the report produced within FH and the report produced when saved as an .rtf file.

1. There are nice clean hanging paras in the FH report, but the .rtf reports have different indents for line one and for all the other lines.

2. The FH reports leaves a space between the header and the first line of text, the .rtf report doesn't.

3. The spacing before and after the number in the list of children is much greater in the .rtf report.

All the above are with the default FH report options. I have tried changing some of the options, but no luck so far. I reckon some of my reports will take an hour to tidy up. Any suggestions would be welcome.

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goodwin2 · Post by **goodwin2** » 09 May 2009 02:53

I just did some experimenting and did the following:

Saved as .rtf, then saved as .txt and then saved as .doc. That's kind of the long hard way but the format looks better in the .doc.

Then I saved it as a PDF file and it is exactly as you originated it in FH. Perhaps that is what you are looking for. Doesn't take a whole lot of time.

Hope that helps.

simonx · Post by **simonx** » 09 May 2009 18:36

Thanks for the reply but it doesn't really help. I have to do some other formatting after the .rtf file is produced (moving spouse's pictures to be near the spouse, inserting stuff that FH doesn't know about, etc) so the pdf route doesn't work for me. FH's failure to align the paragraphs and indents just means I have to tidy up up to 18 generations of text, one generation at a time.

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