[Gramps-users] Graphical ancestor/descendent charts

[John S. <jo...@st...>]

Hi Don and others,

I've been starting to use Gramps (0.8.0-pl2, I'm not upto RH 8.0
yet) and I want to generate some ancester/descendant charts.  I've
gotten and installed dot (though I forget what the package it is in is
called) and I've downloaded but not installed pdflib.  I'll also try
out 0.8.0-pl4 tonight if I get a chance. 

The problem I have with dot is two fold:

1. I can't specify sizes greater than C, though I have access to D and
   E size color plotters, which is really nice for big charts.

2. The output of dot isn't ideal.  I'm really looking for something
   like the very structured, and dot doesn't do that type of graphs.

So, does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do here?  I'm a
reasonable programmer, though totally clueless in python.  I'd be
willing to work on hacking up some code to output nice graphs, and
certainly test them out.  

I'll take a closer look at the code and see what I can do to put
together a patch for larger plotters as well.

Thanks,
John
john"at"stoffel.org