Re: [Gramps-devel] gramps reports layouts and polish translation

[wb <wb...@va...>]

On Tuesday December 27 2005 00:38, Julio Sanchez wrote:
> 2005/12/27, wb <wb...@va...>:
> > I publish some of my family graphs at
> > http://personal.vallnet.com/~someguy/
>
> Interesting, if I understood that right, that would make you a
> distant relative of my wife, since I think she is descended from one
> of Charles V great-great-great-grandfathers.

I don't put great trust in my data from that far back.  All of that I=20
received from GEDCOM files available on the net, and I have no estimate=20
of its' reliability.

<snip>

> You cannot put a graph on a huge PDF file.  As far as  know, 3240
> dots is the limit.  You may view it well, but some print shops will
> not. Last summer I had this problem printing a 1,5m x 1,5m graph, it
> would end up truncated.  I had to resort to svg output.=20
> Unfortunately for svg you need Unicode fonts, while PostScript output
> seems to require Latin1.  Argh...

Really...  I did not know of any such arbitrary limit.  I noticed that=20
Windows machines could not display some graphs in PDF format, and Linux=20
machines could.  I attributed it to low-quality Microsoft=20
implementation.  I have also taken large graphs to a print shop and=20
they were able to load them (into a Windows system) and print them on a=20
commercial printer.  I just assumed that they had larger disks and=20
memory than most home users.

<snip>

> On this, I implemented a couple of related concepts.  First,
> color-code edges.  Here the idea was to give a different color to
> each agnatic lineage, the set of people descending from a common
> ancestor by a pure paternal descent line.  In hand-drawn trees, they
> tend to do this by changing the leave decoration used for the
> different tree branches.  It is very good for getting orientation on
> a large graph.
>
> Second, highlight (bolden) the lines leading to some distinguished
> person (typically the person for whome the tree is printed, usually
> you or one of your children) so that at each family, you see quickly
> which child is the distinguished person descended from.

I will have to consider these ideas.

> > 11.  Add legends for each graph with the individual counts and
> > copyright announcements and such.
>
> Oh, yes, I'd love that.  I had a quick look on how to do it and did
> not find an obvious way.

=46rom the included dot file:

labelloc=3Dbottom;
labeljust=3Dleft;
label=3D"(42 people)\n(C) 2005 by Wayne=20
Bergeron\nhttp://personal.vallnet.com/someguy/\na...@ya...";

It is a pain to format the labels into the dot file, but they print=20
well.

=2D-=20
	If lightning is the anger of the gods, the=20
	gods are concerned mostly with trees.
=09
		- - Lao Tse