Print settings

Tool command
Menu command	Main menu > Print settings

In Print settings you make general settings for your prints. Open the window with the above command.

Template

All print settings are linked to a template that you connect to a report and control how your prints look. Pdf printouts that are not reports use the last saved templates pdf settings. You can make as many templates as you want but they must have a unique name.

Follow these steps to create a new template:

1. Choose a standard template to work from.
   
2. Change your settings.
3. Click Save as and give the template a name and optional description.
4. Press OK.

Reset restores the active template to default values, Delete delete the template and Change name, change the name of the template.

Import and Export allows the user to add and share your templates.

  There are standard templates that you can not rename or delete.

General

Under the category Selection, you can exclude people from your print based on time, number of generations or if persons or facts are private.

References specifies which kinds of references you want to the person.

Media, where you specify the default size of your images when printing.
  Have you set a different size for your image in Media it will use that size.

In Source placement you specify how you want your sources and citations to be presented. Either Harvard system or Oxford system.

Tasks

Selection, where you can specify what information to include.

The selection applies to the main person. The other groups that share the same setting is selected after selection the label with the initials. M=main person, P=parents, S=spouses, SP=spouse parent, C=children, CS=child's spouse, F=Family.

Advanced selection

Displays Content for persons and family where you can specify the content of the family and different individual types: main person, parents, children, etc. There are two tabs for each type: Tasks where you choose what to include by checking areas of the tree structure and Facts where you choose which fact types to be included.

Text

Paragraph, where you can change the paragraph formatting.

Language, where you select the language to be used for printing.

You can choose whether you want the name to be presented with the first name or last name first under Name order.

Fonts and lists, where you change fonts and appearence of bullet lists.

Example 1: Do this not to show the media that is linked to the facts of the main person

1. Click Main person in the left column.
2. Expand Facts in the tasks tree
3. Uncheck Media
   

Example 2: Do this to show the attribute Residence for parents

1. Click Parents in the left column.
2. In facts for parents check Residence
   

Contents of sources where you specify which information to include with your sources and your repositories.
  Please note that the content of Citations is made in Contents for persons and families, see Advanced selection.

Document

Here you make settings for the title, header, footer, registers, your self, pdf and print language.

Title, where you can choose if want to have a title, what the title should contain and what font it should have. In the box for the title are a number of predefined values, but you can also enter your own. You can either enter the text you want to present or use the aliases available. Alias is words that begin and end with the percent sign and represent different dynamic values.

The aliases for title are

It is not the alias is printed as it is. The following, for example, would be:

Personal file for Anders Svensson (1789−1833)

In Headers and footers, you select if headers and footers should be displayed, what font to use and what is shown in the left, center and right columns.

In the same manner as for the title, you can use aliases to specify header and footer. The aliases available for headers and footers are:

Register determines the registers to be displayed; Person names, Places and/or Source reference. For Person names and Places, you can also change the way they are presented through the Advanced button.

Rtf where you can choose whether to scale images in the document. Scaled images provide smaller file size but lower image quality.

Information about myself manage your contact information and how and if it should appear in print. You can choose whether to display it after the title or at the end of the document.

Pdf change settings for pdf printing made with the pdf print made with Genneys pdf printer. Pdf prints made with other drivers are not affected.

To change the settings for pdf print jobs do this

1. Click Settings for pdf document
2. Under the General tab, you can enter a description of the file and how it should be compressed Under the Security tab, you can specify whether the document should be encrypted, and what rights the user is allowed. Encryption ensures that only the intended recipients can view the content.
3. Press OK to save.

  Pdf printouts that are not reports use the last saved templates pdf settings.

See also

• Print
• Page setup
• Manage reports
• Information about yourself

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