Software to draw family tree diagrams

[Gjest]

30 years ago I started drawing my family trees by hand on
A4 paper and then sticking each sheet together to get the
full tree. I then discovered that I could use a CAD program
I had to draw family trees with the beauty that it printed
them out on continuous fanfold paper - no more scissors
and tape!

My fanfold printer is dying and as part of the replacement
program I'm looking at what family tree software there
might be - nb: *not* genealogical database software, just
drawing family trees - and also what the best way of
producing documents for internet accessibility is. Some
years ago I converted my family tree diagrams into text
files and uploaded them to my site at
http://www.mdfs.net/User/JGH/Docs/FamilyTree
but most browser barf at documents 8196 characters
wide!

I've had a few trawls around the wibble but nothing seems
to look like what I want. I prefer nice straigh lines and
clear text, not cluttered boxes and jagged diagonals.

I really don't want to have to use a page printer and have
to go back to sticking sheets of paper together.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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[Hugh Watkins]

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30 years ago I started drawing my family trees by hand on
A4 paper and then sticking each sheet together to get the
full tree. I then discovered that I could use a CAD program
I had to draw family trees with the beauty that it printed
them out on continuous fanfold paper - no more scissors
and tape!

My fanfold printer is dying and as part of the replacement
program I'm looking at what family tree software there
might be - nb: *not* genealogical database software, just
drawing family trees - and also what the best way of
producing documents for internet accessibility is. Some
years ago I converted my family tree diagrams into text
files and uploaded them to my site at
http://www.mdfs.net/User/JGH/Docs/FamilyTree
but most browser barf at documents 8196 characters
wide!

I've had a few trawls around the wibble but nothing seems
to look like what I want. I prefer nice straigh lines and
clear text, not cluttered boxes and jagged diagonals.

I really don't want to have to use a page printer and have
to go back to sticking sheets of paper together.

FTM 16 and make a pdf

or print to a file after obtaining a driver for a plotter used by a
print shop near you


buy FTM 2006 for about 15 dollars single cd flat pack and get a free
online update to FTM 16

just made a videophone photo blog about it
http://mac-on-intel.blogspot.com/2006/1 ... creen.html

enjoy

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[Helen Castle]

Genbox by Thoughtful Creations will do X pages wide by Y deep the biggest
one I did was 20 wide and 3 deep and stuck it together on the wall
http://www.genbox.com/
however

You want something to put up on the net with nice crisp text
It has some sort of output file that someone should be able to work out how
to display in html - have never thought about it
It's a dos sort of window you scroll around and can see the whole tree
graphically - it must be a type of text file

I have the V2.02 dos version which runs fine in XP Professional however
there seems to be a Windows friendly one now
it is not registered and I only use it occassionally - probably still got
the download file

Helen Castle
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30 years ago I started drawing my family trees by hand on
A4 paper and then sticking each sheet together to get the
full tree. I then discovered that I could use a CAD program
I had to draw family trees with the beauty that it printed
them out on continuous fanfold paper - no more scissors
and tape!

My fanfold printer is dying and as part of the replacement
program I'm looking at what family tree software there
might be - nb: *not* genealogical database software, just
drawing family trees - and also what the best way of
producing documents for internet accessibility is. Some
years ago I converted my family tree diagrams into text
files and uploaded them to my site at
http://www.mdfs.net/User/JGH/Docs/FamilyTree
but most browser barf at documents 8196 characters
wide!

I've had a few trawls around the wibble but nothing seems
to look like what I want. I prefer nice straigh lines and
clear text, not cluttered boxes and jagged diagonals.

I really don't want to have to use a page printer and have
to go back to sticking sheets of paper together.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

--
JGH - mdfs.net

[Joe User]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:22:23 -0800, jgh wrote:

I really don't want to have to use a page printer and have to go back to
sticking sheets of paper together.

Any suggestions?

I had the same kind of problem some time ago. The solution I came up with
was the use of the following software:

1. Gramps (a mostly-Linux genealogical software)
2. dot -- uses files produced by gramps to draw graphs.
Highly configurable and programmable.
3. PDF -- use dot to produce PDF or postscript files.
4. JPG -- use dot to produce any kind of graphics file
5. ImageMagick -- a suite of programs to convert graphics
files from one format to another

All of this software is free. It all is amenable to total customizationn.

I have produced scripts to produce the relatives of a given subject, and
put out a graph of the relatives in a specified graphic format.

You are only limited by your free time and imagination.

Dot, especially, is a programming language for producing graphs. It can
do just about anything you can specify.

Good luck. Let me know if you do anything along these lines



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[Gjest]

Thanks. I'll look into those.

BTW, why do all these programs list "gender"? I can't tell
somebody's gender without talking to tehm - they may be
decades dead! I can tell somebody's sex by looking at the
event documents.

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[Joe User]

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:01:23 -0800, jgh wrote:

Thanks. I'll look into those.

BTW, why do all these programs list "gender"? I can't tell somebody's
gender without talking to tehm - they may be decades dead! I can tell
somebody's sex by looking at the event documents.

It's probably a distinction between American English and other Englishes.

In the US, it has, in the last 20 years or so, become inappropriate to
refer to someone's sex as 'sex'. It is really incorrect, but the word
'gender' is starting to take over the meaning of 'sex'. I think the
linguists call it something like 'taboo modification' or something. Sex
has a taboo associated with it, so people use other words.

Let's hope this is just a temporary perversion of the language.


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[Denis Beauregard]

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:01:48 -0600, Joe User <[email protected]> wrote in
soc.genealogy.computing:
Le Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:01:48 -0600, Joe User <[email protected]> écrivait
dans soc.genealogy.computing:

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:01:23 -0800, jgh wrote:

Thanks. I'll look into those.

BTW, why do all these programs list "gender"? I can't tell somebody's
gender without talking to tehm - they may be decades dead! I can tell
somebody's sex by looking at the event documents.

It's probably a distinction between American English and other Englishes.

In the US, it has, in the last 20 years or so, become inappropriate to
refer to someone's sex as 'sex'. It is really incorrect, but the word
'gender' is starting to take over the meaning of 'sex'. I think the
linguists call it something like 'taboo modification' or something. Sex
has a taboo associated with it, so people use other words.

Let's hope this is just a temporary perversion of the language.

Actually, it can also trigger spam filters. So, gender can
become more popular on the net.


Denis

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[Kerry Raymond]

Actually, it can also trigger spam filters. So, gender can
become more popular on the net.

Ah, so the new favourite web search will be for hot gendery chicks

Kerry