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.
Jack Alexander Ratledge
(Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA;25 Dec 1880 - 10 Nov 1942)
Minnie Richmond
(3 Mar 1884 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 2 Oct 1956 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Bessie May Ratledge
(10 Apr 1907 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA - 11 Jan 1978 Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + Jabe Turner Arden
(Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA;1 Nov 1900 - 12 Jan 1970)
     ├─Douglas Ratledge
(Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA;Jun 1909 - 20 May 1910)
     ├─John Beecher Ratledge
(Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA;10 Oct 1910 - 9 Aug 1968)
     │ + Leona Simerly
(21 Apr 1924 Martel, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA - May 1990 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Hazel Louise Ratledge
(Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA;18 Sep 1912 - 21 Dec 1941)
     ├─Raymond Ratledge
(13 Apr 1914 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA - 16 Feb 1994 Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + Pearl Pruett
(15 Jan 1917 - Mar 1996)
     ├─Ralph Robert Ratledge
(27 Jan 1916 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA - 17 Feb 2003 Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA)
     │ + Helen Louisa Vaughn
(27 Sep 1917 Tennessee, USA - 13 Jan 2010 Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA)
     ├─Frances L Ratledge
(Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA;19 May 1920 - 13 Apr 2002)
     │ + Elmer Lillard Simerly
(Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA;3 Apr 1919 - Oct 1988)
     └─Jack Alexander Ratledge, Jr
(2 Mar 1921 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA - 19 Dec 1995 Oak Ridge, Anderson County, Tennessee, USA)
      Vivian Pauline (Polly) Robinson
(12 Sep 1921 Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, USA - 27 Dec 2004 Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA)
           │ :     └─Mark Gregory Ratledge
(2 Mar 1976 Placerville, Eldorado County, California, USA -            │ :      29 Feb 2012 Cottonwood, Merced County, California, USA)
           │ + Living