Comments on: Another Bonus Update for Family Tree Maker 2012!

By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:10:13 +0000

I can no longer copy photos from another tree to my tree is this a problem for everyone or just me. When I click on add this to your tree, the tree name and the name of the person to copy the photo to, the program starts a new search and nothing happens. Is this a copyright problem or just my tree?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 07:32:56 +0000

This web page doesn’t render appropriately on my iphone – you might wanna try and repair that

By: LaKena

LaKena — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:34:29 +0000

It’s over. I quit. I give up. I am abandoning Family Tree Maker for Mac 2. It has completely messed up my tree with it’s constant crashing during syncs and merges. I’ve uninstalled and reinstall, compacted files, uploaded and downloaded COUNTLESS times.

It keeps doing the same thing. Works for a few syncs and then messes everything up again. I’m switching to MacFamilyTree; hopefully it will be more “Mac friendly”.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:07:09 +0000

I’ve seen the new enhancements in FTM2012 and specifically the Places organization improvements are GREAT! I hope that there are plans to bring these enhancements to FTM Mac 2 soon?

By: D Lansing

D Lansing — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:11 +0000

When will these great features be added to the Family Tree Maker for MAC? I’d like to have the copy/paste fact option.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:17:08 +0000

Amazing the amount of off-topic requests that occur under this post. People, you kill a butterfly everytime you ask something dumb, so go find the tech support lines, not the blog section for your problems.

Onto the new update. Nice work! I was one of those unhappy people when the FTM was first rewritten from the old style to the new application a few years back, because so many functions were missing. They’re back now, and this is a far better application foundation then we ever had before. In particular, the media capabilities have made my trees come to life.

Okay, enhancement question time. When you look at the People section, and pick an indivuidal in the Family View, over on the right side of the screen (I’m on FTM Mac 2), you have the options of Facts, Media, Notes, and Tasks. How about adding a 5th option called “Sources” with a list of all sources tied to this person, and a 6th option called “Source Media” which shows all media related to all sources that relate to this person? Why? Because with the advanced Sourcing capabilities, I’m adding all kinds of interesting pictures of books, boats, census documents, newspaper articles…everything but it becomes nearly impossible to try and find it all as it relates back to a person.

Thoughts Ancestry development?

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:10:35 +0000

HELP – I upgraded to windows 8 and it removed my family tree maker program. I cannot find my disc to re-install it. I thought there might be a link on the web site where I could download it. I cannot find any thing online. HELP – any one else ever have this problem??. I am still looking all over for my disc & I have found old, old, old versions of ftm – but cannot find the most current version. What to do??

By: Michel

Michel — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:17:34 +0000

I have been using FTM and Ancestry for many years and will continue. It would seem that since the upgrade I can no longer sync on my tablet or my computer what I have done on the web. Could the upgrade be undone ?

thanks

By: John Donaldson

John Donaldson — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:25:15 +0000

# 28 Don

The PDF issue is well-known to the developers. The issue is that the Share module is supplied to Ancestry.com by DevX, a third party developer. Unfortunately they use a version 1.3 PDF that has a 5 metre (200 inches) limit.

Adobe upgraded this limitation in about Acrobat 1.5 (they are now at Acrobat 11) .

But for reasons that have never been clearly explained, DevX continues to supply the Share module with this very old spec PDF generator.

You can workaround the problem several ways by installing an up to date PDF generator like Acrobat, Nitro, Nuance, etc or better still, use either Charting Companion or Family Tree factory if you want to seriously make big charts.

Both these applications will produce charts only limited by the roll of paper you (or your printing service) can buy. Both programs are available via download

John D

By: Don Knupp

Don Knupp — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:56:33 +0000

I’m happy that the update restored some lost functionality from going to FTM 2012 from 2010.

Will there ever be a fix for the issue of long (wide) tree charts being cut off when you try to export to a single page PDF. This issue has existed since at least FTM 2009 (when I first encountered it).

Currently, I have to print out MANY regular size pages, scotch tape them together, and pay a printer to scan the taped-together tree to a file. Also, printing this scanned file gives a “less-than-pristine” chart showing some of the overlap seams as well as shadows from some of the scotch tape on the original.