Sharing your tree with family members

Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 01 Dec 2009 22:06

I only joined yesterday and this is my first post but could anyone comment on the best way to do this please?
I've been using FH4 for approx 2 months and have tried on a number of occasions to share the tree produced so far with other family mebers by suggesting they download version 3 and then sending them a Gedcom file. It has never worked but today I found I could save the tree as a jpeg after having zoomed out to approx 65% to make it a reasonable size. I then attached this to an e-mail and, Bingo!,they got it and could see it immediately.
It got me thinking though as to whether there is a better way? Any comments or suggestions greatly appreciated.
Dagwood

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ChrisBowyer · Post by **ChrisBowyer** » 02 Dec 2009 04:38

I generally use narrative reports as the way of sharing research.

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 02 Dec 2009 07:02

Or you can simply save the diagram as a single page PDF which is generally easier to read when zoomed in.

Post by **Anonymous** » 02 Dec 2009 18:26

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Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 03 Dec 2009 15:34

My thanks to Chris,Jane and Sarah for replying. I'm not sure if the narrative report meets my needs just to share the diagram as opposed to the research,but thanks anyway.
The pdf solution ended up with a lockup as it tried to print to NVK6 whatever that is, when I hadn't even thought about printing- but I'll persevere!
Not sure about the need for a web page but will look further at that.
Ta! Dagwood

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 03 Dec 2009 16:26

If you are on windows 7 (or x64 Vista) some times the print dialogue opens behind the Family historian window, so next time try minimising the FH window and see if the PDF window is behind it.

Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 04 Dec 2009 22:21

Jane, I've tried that now, as I do indeed have Windows 7 64bit, but no joy yet. The only window I get is a print one and I'm baffled as to what I'm doing wrong. For the moment though, the use of a slightly reduced jpeg attached to an e-mail seems to be meeting my needs . As I progress with use I'll come back to this issue. Thanks again

ejp · Post by **ejp** » 04 Dec 2009 23:48

Someone else will explain better, but that's how PDF works. You get shown the print window. Choose print to PDF & then you will be asked where you wish to save the file to. It will save, not actually print.

AnneEast · Post by **AnneEast** » 05 Dec 2009 14:06

In other words the PDF 'printer' is a virtual printer. It does not try to print on paper but will 'print' to the PDF program. It had me foxed as well until I was told about this.

We mere mortals would call it 'saving' [lol]

Anne

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