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 Descendant Charts
Please note that you don't have to depend on these descriptions; you can quickly try out each of the chart types.
Graphical formats
"Standard" charts have a marvelous graphical format and show a fair amount of data for each person,
but they generate so much whitespace that they tend to be wider than the screen (or a printed page)
They tend to be hard to read and almost impossible to print if you generate more than three or four generations of data.
"Compact" charts have similar graphical layout, and are easier to read and print,
but don't display any data other than each person's name.
Note that if you want to print a "Compact" chart
with more than three or four generations of data,
you should probably specify "Landscape" orientation when you print.
The "PDF chart" is kind of a cross between the standard and compact formats, generated as a PDF.
On most computers, any web page can be printed as a PDF,
but this PDF format handles page breaks for specific paper sizes,
wheras PDF printouts of web pages just run the text through the page breaks
(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 follow a standard outline-style format that provides more (i.e. denser) data than the graphical charts do.
"Text+" charts are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats.
They can display much more data in less space than graphical charts or the "Text" chart.
(That's good news and bad news).
In particular, they requires much less horizontal scrolling,
and can accommodate large charts in one printed page width
(albeit sometimes with legal-sized paper in landscape mode).
They are also much more flexible than the other formats,
with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
However,
The process of printing a Text+ chart can be a bit daunting, and
When you are looking at just a few generations, and when enough data is visible on the screen, the graphical charts tend to be easier to read.
"Register" charts are detailed descriptive reports.
They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes.
But they aren't really 'charts' in the normal sense,
and don't give this kind of overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Count" charts don't list descendants at all;
they just show how many descendants a person has, broken out by generation.
Father: William Thomas McCutcheon
(Oct 1831 New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, USA - Abt 1916 Missouri, USA)
Mother: Mary Jane Fender
(7 Feb 1837 Lawrence County, Indiana, USA - 2 Jan 1916 St Francois County, Missouri, USA)
William Irvin McCutcheon
(10 Jun 1873 Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA - 20 Feb 1947 Bismarck, St Francois County, Missouri, USA)
Emma Ida Brown
(13 Oct 1878 Doe Run, St Francois County, Missouri, USA - 1 May 1962 Saco, Madison County, Missouri, USA)
:     ├─Lottie McCutcheon
(6 Sep 1896 Missouri, USA - Apr 1974 Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri, USA)
:     ├─Willard Franklin McCutcheon
(20 May 1898 Missouri, USA - Jul 1966 Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri, USA)
:     │ Fannie Lounettie (Nettie) McCutcheon
(8 Jul 1896 Perryville, Perry County, Missouri, USA - 17 Jul 1960 Missouri, USA)
:     │      ├─Adele McCutcheon
(Abt 1916 Missouri, USA - )
:     │      ├─Wilma McCutcheon
(Abt 1921 Missouri, USA - )
:     │      ├─Delphia Marian McCutcheon
(17 Oct 1923 Kansas, USA - 21 Jan 2011 St George, Washington County, Utah, USA)
:     │      │ + Ralph Howard Conrad
(21 Nov 1916 Missouri, USA - 28 Aug 2002 Mesquite, Clark County, Nevada, USA)
:     │      ├─James Howard McCutcheon
(13 Oct 1925 Doe Run, St Francois County, Missouri, USA - Apr 1982 St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri, USA)
:     │      ├─Jacob I McCutcheon
(13 May 1928 Marquand, Madison County, Missouri, USA - 21 Dec 2014 Canton, Fulton County, Illinois, USA)
:     │      │ Living
:     │      ├─Willard Francis McCutcheon
(24 Nov 1931 Madison County, Missouri, USA - 18 Jun 1971 St Louis County, Missouri, USA)
:     │      │ Living
:     │      │      └─Pamela Gayle McCutcheon
(25 Nov 1954 Anchorage, Anchorage County, Alaska, USA - :     │      │       4 May 2014 St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri, USA)
:     │      │       + James Adrian Adams
(14 Sep 1945 Ironton, Iron County, Missouri, USA - 18 May 1993 Blackwell, St Francois County, Missouri, USA)
:     │      ├─Gilbert McCutcheon
(1934 Mine La Motte, Madison County, Missouri, USA - Bef 1971)
:     │      ├─Jackie Lee McCutcheon
(3 Aug 1935 Mine La Motte, Madison County, Missouri, USA - 13 Jul 1996 Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada, USA)
:     │      │ Laura Dorene Thompson
(17 Jan 1940 Utah, USA - 6 Feb 1986 Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, USA)
:     │      │ :      + Living
:     │      │ + Living
:     │      └─Peggy Deanna McCutcheon
(17 May 1938 Mine La Motte, Madison County, Missouri, USA - 23 Mar 1998 Clark County, Nevada, USA)
:     │       + Living
:     │       + Willard Gustav Stahl
(16 Jan 1932 Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois, USA - 7 May 2007 Dupo, St Clair County, Illinois, USA)
Julia Alpha Lutes
(4 Aug 1886 Greenville, Wayne County, Missouri, USA - May 1972 Ironton, Iron County, Missouri, USA)
     ├─Joseph Lee McCutcheon
(6 Jan 1911 Greenville, Wayne County, Missouri, USA - 12 Jan 1993 St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri, USA)
     │ Blanche ??
(Abt 1913 Missouri, USA - )
     │ + Irene C ??
(5 Jun 1916 - 3 Mar 2009)
     ├─Estella Syvesta McCutcheon
(2 Nov 1914 Farmington, St Francois County, Missouri, USA - 25 Nov 1992 Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri, USA)
     │ + Harry L Boen
(13 Apr 1912 - 2 Jan 1981 Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri, USA)
     ├─Velma Hazel McCutcheon
(20 May 1919 Bismarck, St Francois County, Missouri, USA - 6 Jul 2009 De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri, USA)