Family Historian User Group

I've just printed out a family tree for someone and it's 45 pages - a lot of taping to be done! Is there a way I can shrink the tree down to show the same info but on a smaller amount of sheets? I've already moved the grid around to make it three pages high as opposed to four pages.

Regards, Martin.

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You can right click on the corners to zoom the chart on the page, just remember the text will get smaller.

You can also sometimes move a few boxes around to compress the chart that way.

For example below I have staggered the final descendant line to reduce the width.

Thanks Jane, I understand it now.

Regards, Martin.

When I printed out a massive tree for a family meeting (described in another tread) I managed to get the diagram down from about 45 pages to 30 pages.

First I reduced the whole thing to 75% of the original. Any less than this and the print is too samll for a display diagram.

Secondly (as Jane says) I moved bits of the tree around to save space. In particular, with families with a lot of children, I staggered them so they moved closer together by moving alternate children down a bit. This saves a lot of space. Admittedly it means that all the generation is not lined up exactly but everyone agreed that the result was still understandable. I made the connecting lines a bit thicker too which helped the understanding.

Anne

Using Jane's method I reduced a 15 x 3 tree (45 pages) to a 10 x 2 (20 pages) tree with ease.

Martin.

This is one thing I still cannot get my head around. I've read the FH help, adjusted PDF page sizes, grabbed corners, everything ...
All I want to do is shrink my (very wide) diagram to that it will fit to the maximum PDF size, so that I can print it off on a roll of paper on a large format inkjet printer!
Surely a simple 'shrink to fit' or 'create banner chart' can be provided... I should not have to resort to third party software such as Family Tree Factory to achieve this!