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: Captain Matthew Arbuckle
(15 Jul 1740 Botetourt County, Virginia, USA - 27 Jul 1781 Jackson River, Bath County, Virginia, USA)
Mother: Frances Lawrence Hunter
(10 Mar 1749 Botetourt County, Virginia, USA - 25 Jul 1834 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA)
James Harvey Arbuckle
(17 Nov 1775 Fort Donaldson, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA - 7 Mar 1869 Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA)
Catherine Alexander
(20 Sep 1781 Augusta County, Virginia, USA - 21 Jan 1863 West Virginia, USA)
     └─James Harvey Arbuckle, Jr
(Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA;1 Jan 1818 - 3 Apr 1898)
      Mahala Frances McPherson
(27 Jul 1821 Fauquier County, Virginia, USA - 18 Feb 1908 Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA)
           ├─Andrew Alexander Arbuckle
(16 Jun 1847 Accomack County, Virginia, USA - 23 Sep 1936 Howard County, Missouri, USA)
           │ Mary Wright (Rightie) Estill
(1 Aug 1853 Missouri, USA - 5 Sep 1915 Howard County, Missouri, USA)
           │      ├─Estelle Mahele Arbuckle
(5 Apr 1872 Kentucky, USA - 6 Sep 1961 University Park, Dallas County, Texas, USA)
           │      │ + Walter Keene Parker
(Feb 1872 Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA - 8 Aug 1948 Dallas County, Texas, USA)
           │      ├─Mary Arbuckle
(5 Nov 1880 Estill, Howard County, Missouri, USA - 28 Jan 1972 Marshall, Saline County, Missouri, USA)
           │      │ + Charles Fisher Barron
(2 Mar 1880 Howard County, Missouri, USA - 24 Sep 1955 Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA)
           │      ├─Ann Maud Arbuckle
(18 Feb 1883 Estill, Howard County, Missouri, USA - 10 Dec 1971 Midwest City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA)
           │      │ + William Jackson Smith
(1879 - 22 Feb 1941)
           │      ├─Myrtle Arbuckle
(12 Apr 1886 New Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, USA - 17 Apr 1966 Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, USA)
           │      ├─Elizabeth (Bettie) Arbuckle
(Aug 1888 Howard County, Missouri, USA - )
           │      │ + Earnest R Long
(1881 Missouri, USA - 1965)
           │      ├─Rightie Arbuckle
(28 Feb 1892 Howard County, Missouri, USA - 26 Jul 1981 Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA)
           │      │ + Otha Francis Revercomb
(3 Sep 1883 Shelby County, Missouri, USA - 1955)
           │      └─Virginia Arbuckle
(Dec 1895 Howard County, Missouri, USA - )
           ├─John William Arbuckle
(Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA;26 Apr 1850 - 30 Jan 1925)
           │ Mary Tate Finley
(1 Sep 1855 Augusta County, Virginia, USA - 13 May 1884 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA)
           │ :     ├─Finley McCue Arbuckle
(14 Aug 1879 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA -            │ :     │ 14 Aug 1950 Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA)
           │ :     │ + Ann M ??
(Abt 1912 Pennsylvania, USA - )
           │ :     ├─James Edward Arbuckle
(5 Oct 1880 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA - 26 Jun 1920)
           │ :     ├─Mary Hale Arbuckle
(29 Dec 1882 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA - 18 Apr 1953 Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA)
           │ :     └─John Tate Arbuckle
(10 May 1884 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA - 18 Oct 1950 Raleigh County, West Virginia, USA)
           │ :      Virginia D Murrill
(3 Dec 1886 Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA - 30 Jan 1955 Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA)
           │ :           └─John William Arbuckle
(Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA;21 Jul 1912 - 18 Sep 1952)
           │ :            Janet Nelson
(27 Dec 1916 Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA - 12 Aug 1958 Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA)
           │ Mary Withers Young
(Abt 1867 Augusta County, Virginia, USA - 18 Aug 1939 Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      ├─William Withers Arbuckle
(23 May 1894 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA - 6 Nov 1962)
           │      │ Margaret E MacIntosh
(9 Oct 1896 Colorado, USA - 13 Nov 1958)
           │      ├─Agnes Atkinson Arbuckle
(20 Jun 1897 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA -            │      │ 4 Apr 1926 Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      │ + Joseph Crosley Jefferds, Sr
(19 Feb 1880 Washington, District of Columbia, USA -            │      │ 8 Nov 1966 Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      ├─Frances McPherson Arbuckle
(28 Jan 1901 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA - )
           │      └─Minnie Bidgood Arbuckle
(6 Aug 1906 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA -            │       12 Oct 1996 Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA)
           │       + Luther James Dempsey
(9 Jan 1905 Lincoln County, West Virginia, USA - 6 May 1970 Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA)
           ├─James Harvey Arbuckle, III
(26 Apr 1852 Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA - 12 Mar 1929 Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA)
           │ Elizabeth Eastham
(27 Oct 1856 Mason County, West Virginia, USA - 2 Oct 1905 Putnam County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      ├─Mahala Frances Arbuckle
(13 Feb 1884 Putnam County, West Virginia, USA - 1916 West Virginia, USA)
           │      │ + John Allen Waggener
(24 Dec 1880 Arbuckle, Mason County, West Virginia, USA -            │      │ 9 Jul 1955 Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      ├─Katherine Eastshur Arbuckle
(28 Nov 1885 Putnam County, West Virginia, USA - )
           │      │ + John Allen Waggener
(24 Dec 1880 Arbuckle, Mason County, West Virginia, USA -            │      │ 9 Jul 1955 Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      ├─Rhoda G Arbuckle
(Feb 1887 West Virginia, USA - 30 Jun 1905 Putnam County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      ├─James Gallatin Arbuckle
(11 Feb 1890 Swan Creek, Gallia County, Ohio, USA - 11 Mar 1935 Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      │ Bernice Pitchford
(26 Oct 1895 Putnam County, West Virginia, USA - 22 May 1970 Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA)
           │      │      └─Mary Virginia Arbuckle
(Abt 1918 Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa, USA - )
           │      ├─Andrew Alexander Arbuckle
(27 Apr 1894 Gallia County, Ohio, USA - Jun 1978 Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      │ + Helen Virginia Waggener
(11 Dec 1894 Mason County, West Virginia, USA - Aug 1985 St Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA)
           │      └─Mary E Arbuckle
(29 Mar 1899 West Virginia, USA - 29 Nov 1959 Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia, USA)
           ├─Mary Elizabeth Arbuckle
(26 Jan 1855 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA - 6 Aug 1869 Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA)
           └─Amanda McPherson Arbuckle
(9 May 1857 Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA -             10 Mar 1909 Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA)
            + Samuel M McNeill
(Old Fields, Hardy County, West Virginia, USA;8 Jul 1851 - 1 Mar 1918)