The paper length is not relevant since the chart flows from one page to the next.
Mobile
in.
mm
Portrait
2.75
70
For smart phones, not for printing
Landscape
5.5
140
For smart phones, not for printing
USA & Canada
in.
mm
Letter Portrait
8.5
216
Also Legal Portrait
Letter Landscape
11
279
Legal Landscape
14
356
Also Ledger Portrait
Ledger Landscape
17
432
International
in.
mm
A5 Portrait
5.82
148
A4 Portrait
8.25
210
Also A5 Landscape
A4 Landscape
11.71
297
Also A3 Landscape
A3 Landscape
16.54
420
The Text+ programs assume that the right and left margins are each about 25mm (1/2 inch) wide.
On the Format for Printing page, differences in page margins can be accommodated by the "fudge factor":
TNG Ancestor Charts
Graphical formats
"Standard" charts have a lovely graphical format that shows the name and birth/death years in a box for each person's box.
Additional data for each person can be pulled down from that box.
They are in the shape of a standard pedigree chart, with empty boxes for ancestors that are not present in the tree..
Unfortunately, they generate so much whitespace that they require a lot of scrolling to read,
and are virtually impossible to print.
(But see the "PDF" chart below.)
"Vertical" charts are also lovely graphical charts.
These flow down up instead of across the page.
Since vertical charts do not use blank boxes for ancestors who are missing from the database,
they are more compact than the "Standard" charts.
But you cannot pull down additional data from each box.
And depending on the number of ancestors in the tree, they can be too wide to print.
"Compact" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape,
but their boxes are much smaller because they contain only names.
"Box" charts are like "Standard" chart in their shape,
but their boxes are bigger because they contain some of the data that is pulled-down
from the "Standard" chart boxes.
As a result, they are even more unweildy than the "Standard" charts.
"Fan" charts are remarkable. All I can say is "try one".
"PDF" chart are variants of "Standard" chart.
They create a one-page PDF file that can hold up to six generations of data.
Most PC's these days can generate PDF printouts of any web page,
but PDFs are distinctive because they control the page margins and page breaks,
The "Map" is not a chart. Rather, it is, well, a map.
The places of ancestors' birth, marriage, and death are shown as pins on the map.
It's pretty remarkable - you should give it a try, though the map would be easier to interpret if the pins were colored or numbered to represent generations.
(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level.
When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll whell or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)
Text formats
"Text" charts are shaped just like the "Standard" charts,
with lines drawn from person-to-person.
They just don't put each person's data into graphical boxes.
"Text+" charts are quite distinctive, and unique to TNG.
They are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats.
They are much more compact than the text charts,
partly because they do not leave blank space where ancestors are missing.
The ancestor tree extends to the right like typical charts,
stretch vertically rather than horizontally,
and can includes upwards of 15 generations in the width of one printed page
(albeit sometimes with legal-length paper in landscape mode).
They are also much more flexible than the other formats,
with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
"Ahnetafel" charts follow a standard genealogical text format
that is descriptive - more like prose than a 'chart'.
They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes.
But they don't give the kind of visual overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Media" charts are not focused on media, and they don't actually show pictures;
they just indicate whether each ancestor's record has media item attached to it.
(They don't distinguish between photos, scans of documents, and other types of media.)
Their presentation of ancestors is very simple, and easy to read and print.
┌──James Hazlet (5 Feb 1787 Pennsylvania, USA - 10 Mar 1884 Harrison, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA. 97 years)
┌──Hugh Daugherty Hazlet (21 Jan 1822 Harrison, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA - 16 Jan 1887 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA. 64 years)
│ (m. 15 Dec 1857 Benton Co, IN)
│ └──Amy Caldwell (12 Aug 1787 Pennsylvania, USA - 20 Jan 1846 Harrison, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA. 58 years)
│
┌──William Hugh Hazlet (2 Apr 1862 Milford, Iroquois County, Illinois, USA - 10 Oct 1936 Brighton, Adams County, Colorado, USA. 74 years)
│ (m. 23 Aug 1883 Leon, Decatur, IA)
│ │
│ │ ┌──John Graham (Ireland - ?? New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, USA)
│ └──Margaret Ann Graham (12 Jul 1835 Belfast, Ireland - 17 Apr 1921 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA. 85 years)(m. 15 Dec 1857 Benton Co, IN)
│ ┌──Samuel McCutchan (6 Jan 1795 Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA - 26 Apr 1867 Scottsville, Floyd County, Indiana, USA. 72 years)
│ │ (m. 6 Apr 1824 Spencer Co, KY)
│ │ └──Elizabeth Hunter (Abt 1766 Augusta County, Virginia, USA - 1846 Floyd County, Indiana, USA. ~80 years)
│ │ (m. 15 Nov 1786 Augusta Co, VA)
│ │
│ ┌──Josiah McCutchan (27 Oct 1833 New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, USA - 3 Apr 1891 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA. 57 years)
│ │ (m. 17 Mar 1859 Cambria, Wayne, IA)
│ │ │
│ │ │ ┌──Michael Reasor, Jr (3 Feb 1760 Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, USA - │ │ │ │ 11 Jun 1843 Little Mount, Spencer County, Kentucky, USA. 83 years)(m. 27 Feb 1782 Winchester, Winchester City, VA) =>
│ │ └──Sarah Reasor (14 Nov 1805 Little Mount, Spencer County, Kentucky, USA - 20 May 1854 Scottsville, Floyd County, Indiana, USA. 48 years)
│ │ (m. 6 Apr 1824 Spencer Co, KY)
│ │ └──Anna Herbert (1 Sep 1760 Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA - 5 Jul 1847 Little Mount, Spencer County, Kentucky, USA. 86 years)
│ │ (m. 27 Feb 1782 Winchester, Winchester City, VA) =>
│ │
└──Mary Elizabeth McCutchan (18 Oct 1863 Cambria, Wayne County, Iowa, USA - 4 Apr 1941 Altus, Jackson County, Oklahoma, USA. 77 years)
(m. 23 Aug 1883 Leon, Decatur, IA)
│
│ ┌──John Griffith Nelson (2 Apr 1776 Mason County, West Virginia, USA - 23 Sep 1817 Pendleton, Madison County, Indiana, USA. 41 years)
│ ┌──William 'Arbuckle' Nelson (13 Sep 1807 Mason County, West Virginia, USA - 4 Aug 1876 Cambria, Wayne County, Iowa, USA. 68 years)
│ │ (m. 1 May 1830 Mason Co, WV)
│ │ └──Mary (Polly) Dickinson Arbuckle (4 Apr 1784 Fort Randolph, Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA - │ │ 13 Sep 1847 Pendleton, Madison County, Indiana, USA. 63 years)(m. 22 May 1807 Gallia Co, OH) =>
│ │
└──Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Nelson (18 Feb 1842 Madison County, Indiana, USA - 13 Sep 1906 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA. 64 years)
(m. 17 Mar 1859 Cambria, Wayne, IA)
│
│ ┌──Morris Greenlee (8 Aug 1790 Botetourt County, Virginia, USA - 20 Mar 1864 Wayne County, Iowa, USA. 73 years)
└──Nancy Jane (Jenny) Greenlee (20 Aug 1815 Mason County, West Virginia, USA - 2 Jul 1890 Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, USA. 74 years)(m. 1 May 1830 Mason Co, WV)
└──Nancy Kimberling (28 Jan 1791 Virginia, USA - 14 Jun 1868 Wayne County, Iowa, USA. 77 years)(m. 20 Sep 1809 Gallia Co, OH) =>
(5 Feb 1787 Pennsylvania, USA - 10 Mar 1884 Harrison, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA. 97 years)
