Comments on: Family Tree Maker: Making Colorful Charts

By: Janice McCoury

Janice McCoury — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:59:23 +0000

When is the all in one chart coming?

By: Herb Carter

Herb Carter — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:05:50 +0000

Can’t seem to get the chart poster option working. I have lots of computer memory and have cleaned my machine up. but still get the message not enough memory, or a pdf poster comes up with a big red X in it. Hopefully this has been reported and is being worked on for the next update?

By: Ann Victoria Paras

Ann Victoria Paras — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:05:17 +0000

I am having difficulty printing out the Calendar. I have about 200 names which I selected, but when I click to Generate Report, nothing happens. Please help me. Thank you.

By: Ann Jarrett

Ann Jarrett — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:30:37 +0000

I would be excited about these improved charts if I hadn’t just lost Seven Generations of ancestors including photos, merges, pages of notes and robust facts on everyone one of them ie. years of work.

All I did was a deletion from a pedigree tree in FTM 16. I Thought I was just deleting from the Tree and could then add back some fraternal ancestors.

Turns out I was deleting all of them from my Database not just the report.

Somehow being able to pick pretty colors, overlays and borders doesn’t make up for software that would Allow such a wholesale delete to happen at all. And with no temp. file to hold the data for a possible reversal.

Lots of flash and bling for my now empty tree.

By: Kevin Holmes

Kevin Holmes — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:19:30 +0000

In the previous versions of FTM you could chooses the location of a photograph in a tree. (ie above or below name as well as to the side) The latter appears to be the only option available now.

By: Tana L. Pedersen

Tana L. Pedersen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:48:48 +0000

#2
Gillian, this does work on most charts; two exceptions are the pedigree chart and relationship chart.

#4
Lynn, this is an interesting idea. I too rate my sources and would like a visual way to easily identify them.

#5 and #7
Carol and Maxine, as Lynn said, I think we may be working on different versions of the software. These steps work for Family Tree Maker 2009 with the latest software update that was released a few weeks ago.

#8
Lynn, I too noticed that the option to exclude branches didn’t seem to be available on certain charts. I use this option on most charts and am missing the functionality already. I will try to find out what happened to that option.

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By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:31:22 +0000

Carol and Maxine, To validate Tana’s instructions — I can easily make “colorful” charts and have not experienced the issues you reported above. I am using the upgraded version of 2009 on XP (i.e., your version of FTM and/or your operating system may make the difference).

Tana, I can see myself utilizing this feature in the future, but it appears that many of the charts in the upgraded version of FTM 2009 no longer allow us to “exclude empty branches” of the tree — this is the case for 180 fan (one of my favorites) and many others charts (i.e., causing many of my charts to become unnecessarily large and unfriendly to read) — please request that a patch is created to fix this issue/bring back this functionality.

By: Maxine Elder

Maxine Elder — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:38:07 +0000

Am having difficulty getting beyond step 2. I can get a drop down that allows me to choose Mark Selected, but not Mark Selected>Marking 1. Thus I can’t distinguish between groups of marked boxes. What am I not doing/doing incorrectly?

By: deborah

deborah — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:45:41 +0000

that the name