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Hi Nick, I have been playing again, here are more thoughts of the day:- 8. I like the fact that you can see the effect of the "Background layer contrast" adjustment dynamically. The choice of colours is also critical. 9. Why does the help page not retain its size & position between sessions, is this...

Hi Nick, Just back from holiday and have started playing with Version 3. Here are my initial thoughts. 1. I like the layers feature but am still working out how best to use it. So far I have simply selected all ancestors on one specific layer. I will be interested how other users use the layers opti...

Hi Nick, Here are my suggestions for version 3. 1. Save the size, position, column widths of the following windows for the next time the program is run; the "Select person to edit" window, the "Select family to edit window", the "Query" window. 2. Include the Notes database as an option in the "data...

Hi Steve, To get more people per page you have to reduce the information about each person and/or reduce the detail on each entry. In the options the date can be displayed as long as Thursday "5 February 2008" or shortened to "5 2 2009" or even just the year. Use the replace text section to replace ...

Hi Richard,

I have had this problem. When the number of source references is way too high the database is confused. Try ->File ->Database ->Pack this should correct it.

John

PDFCreator is still a Beta release product and has been for a long time. I have found an alternative PDF file creator program at www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/ This is a try before you buy program that you can evaluate. The trial version adds a note at the top of the document. I have tried it. It ...

Hi LeRoy,

When you create a new box it becomes the top layer. This is why you then cannot see the text in, or under the box. The answer is to send the box to the back. Select the box then Menu -> Align -> Send to back; or [CONTROL] .

John

Function Key [F9] is covered in the help file on the page headed "Updating text automatically". This help page has a link in the first paragraph from the sentence "You can also modify or lock this link." The help file link from "modify or lock" produces an error message "This program cannot display ...

Function Key [F9] is covered in the help file on the page headed "Updating text automatically". This help page has a link in the first paragraph from the sentence "You can also modify or lock this link." The help file link from "modify or lock" produces an error message "This program cannot display ...

For some time I have been wondering where the extra folders in the active database came from. They have random names and are empty. I was worried about deleting them at first as I did not know what they were used for. I now have discovered that they are generated when packing the database. Is there ...

Try PDF Creator from :-

http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/

I can output coloured hatched filled shapes to a pdf file with this.

It will install a printer on your system which you can use in most application to divert the print output to a pdf file.

John Wood

Hi, I have a Buffalo memory stick and I can see its drive letter listed under [File] -> [Import] -> Import image file. I am using Windows XP which loaded the Buffalo driver the first time it detected the new hardware. TreeDraw does not show the name of the drive that you see in [My Computer] only th...

Hi Group, How do you use the Privacy Level feature? I have my ideas but what do others do? I have primary evidence from source documents at the lowest numbers, then secondary transcribed evidence, then searches to be made, and sensitive date at the top level. For example, level 9 is used to identify...

Hi Richard & Nick, I agree with your idea. I use the snap to grid feature on the tree area and place families married on the same decade on the same horizontal line. So if parents marry in the 1860s and the children marry in the 1880s, the childrens' families are two grid lines below the parents. To...