Right side of your screen as shown in the second example below.Įliminating page breaks in recent versions of Family Tree Maker 2008 and forwardĪnother thing that you can do to fine tune the Making this selection is always visible in the chart options panel on the If you're using a more recent version of Family Tree Maker 2008 and forward, the option for You don't need to worry aboutįinding a setting for continuous roll paper as we handle that on our end. Will eliminate a lot of wasted white space, reduce the width of your family tree chart,Īnd keep your printing costs low. Make sure the overlap page breaks box is checked as shown in Tree Maker to allow the boxes to overlap page breaks that you see on your screen.Īccomplished by right clicking anywhere on your chart, and then selecting "treeįormat". You'll want to change the settings in Family Paper, you'll be doing the exact opposite. Since we'll be printing your family tree chart on continuous roll Using 8.5 X 11 inch paper, you already know that you don't want your boxes to be cut in If you've ever printed a small family tree chart This is not necessary, but it willĭramatically reduce the file size of the photo and keep FTM from getting into the hundreds of megabytes big process. Tall, so you may want to resize the photo before importing it into FTM. For example, if you're adding a photo that would normally print as a 5 Xħ or an 8 x 10, and it will only be appearing on your chart as a photo that is 2 inches This can make your FTM file very large if you have a large number of photos that have largeįile sizes. Program is still saving the original full-size photo. Althoughįamily Tree Maker allows you to scale the size of the photos you place on your chart, the Your chart, you can optionally resize them prior to including them on your chart.
If you'll be including photos or graphics on The onlyĭifference is that the menus for selecting these options of changed The techniques shown below for Family Tree Maker 16 and earlier alsoĪpply to the more recent versions of Family Tree Maker 2008 going forward. That will help Family Tree Maker users create gorgeous looking charts while keep their printing costs as low as possible. It is the most popular genealogy program in use today, here are some simple design tips That can easily produce a variety of gorgeous genealogy charts ready for printing. Genealogy chart in Family Tree Maker is quick and easy!įamily Tree Maker is an excellent program