[Gramps-users] How to save charts in SVG/PDF format in FTM2012 and Gramps?

[Chris K. <ck...@gm...>]

Hi all. forgive this act of desperation, but after trying for n hours to
find an answer in FTM's "help system", thought I'd ask y'all.

 

It seems to me that if you "share" a chart in PDF format, all that really
happens is that FTM wraps a PDF format around a bitmap dump of the chart.
Sooo...you can't do anything with the chart, such as open it in Inkscape to
rearrange groups so they aren't cut by page boundaries, for example. 

 

In times past, I've exported the database to Gramps, and used its myriad
filters and formats to do what I wanted, which is save a chart in SVG format
so that I could manually prettify groups on 2'x3' "pages" 

for printing on a roll-fed blueprint raster printer. Just being chatty here.

 

This time, though, I'd like to incorporate thumbnail portraits laboriously
scanned from ancient original photographs and paintings. 

 

Two questions:

1) Any suggestions on what magic I can do with PDF printing drivers, say, 

   to get FTM to generate SVG files? Their help system is, (erm), not
helping.

2) I haven't much luck yet with getting the thumbnails to import in to
Gramps

   so I can print portraits for people in a chart. If possible, point me to
where

   in the docs?

 

Best regards,

Chris Kinata