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: James Bacon
(Abt 1758 Maidencreek Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA - 1846 Washington County, Tennessee, USA)
Mother: Magdalene Neumann
(10 Jul 1773 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA - Bef 1850 Washington County, Tennessee, USA)
James Bacon, Jr
(1795 Virginia, USA - 15 Mar 1853 Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA)
Dorcas Jackson
(Abt 1792 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 1 Feb 1851 Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─John Bacon
(30 May 1813 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 7 Jun 1863 Monroe County, Kentucky, USA)
     ├─Soloman Bacon
(1815 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - Apr 1880 Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Malinda Bacon
(Abt 1818 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Nancy Bacon
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;6 Dec 1819 - 10 May 1889)
     │ Charles Bacon
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;6 May 1814 - 2 Mar 1894)
     │      ├─Mary Ellen Bacon
(2 Feb 1838 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 24 Nov 1909 Dallas County, Missouri, USA)
     │      │ + Samuel Washington Baines
(11 Nov 1825 Tennessee, USA - 23 Aug 1906)
     │      ├─Amanda Jane Bacon
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;16 Apr 1841 - 3 Oct 1907)
     │      │ + Joseph Benjamin Sherfey
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;26 Apr 1838 - 30 Jul 1920)
     │      ├─James Charles Bacon
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;22 Feb 1844 - 18 Jun 1902)
     │      │ Elizabeth Douglas
(Abt 1848 Tennessee, USA - )
     │      │      ├─William H Bacon
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;28 Apr 1867 - 20 Nov 1883)
     │      │      ├─Charles D Bacon
(Mar 1869 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - Aft 1930) =>
     │      │      │ + Carrie Boring
(15 Sep 1869 Greenfield, Greene County, Illinois, USA - 22 Mar 1928 Rubicon, Greene County, Illinois, USA)
     │      │      ├─Samuel Washington Bacon
(29 Nov 1871 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 23 Jul 1940 Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Flora Ellen Love
(14 Oct 1873 Tennessee, USA - 25 Oct 1953 Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Flora E Bacon
(19 Feb 1874 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 14 May 1958 Marshall, Macon County, North Carolina, USA)
     │      │      │ + Henry Clinton Boles
(18 Mar 1874 Tennessee, USA - 15 Apr 1944)
     │      │      ├─Robert Oscar Bacon
(Aug 1876 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │      │      ├─Nancy Alice Bacon
(4 Mar 1879 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 24 Aug 1945 Greene County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Sudie Bacon
(Dec 1884 Tennessee, USA - )
     │      │      ├─Walter Bacon
(Jan 1885 Tennessee, USA - 12 Mar 1934 Cocke County, Tennessee, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Nettie Knight
(18 Mar 1889 Tennessee, USA - Apr 1986 Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Mary Virginia Bacon
(15 Feb 1886 Tennessee, USA - 5 Mar 1954 Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      │ + Gabriel Garfield Boles
(16 Feb 1881 Greene County, Tennessee, USA - 20 May 1950 Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      └─Benjamin Harrison Bacon
(21 Dec 1888 Tennessee, USA - 11 Jul 1957 Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA) =>
     │      │       + Carrie Kathleen Ricker
(22 Feb 1901 Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA - 24 May 1962 Dade County, Florida, USA)
     │      ├─Martha E Bacon
(1846 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky, USA)
     │      │ + William F Robertson
(Abt 1843 Tennessee, USA - )
     │      ├─Rachel E Bacon
(1849 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - Kansas, USA)
     │      ├─Dicy Alice Bacon
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;7 Apr 1855 - 19 Aug 1903)
     │      │ + James Cosson Humphreys
(1 Aug 1840 Tennessee, USA - 10 Dec 1920 Bearden, Knox County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Robert Bovell Bacon
(8 Apr 1857 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 23 Oct 1912 Sulphur Springs, Washington County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Cora M Cox
(18 May 1867 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 3 Dec 1958 Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      ├─Raleigh D Bacon, Sr
(11 Oct 1888 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 4 Aug 1960) =>
     │      │      │ + Hazel B Gresham
(8 Jul 1898 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 6 Oct 1964)
     │      │      ├─Ralph R Bacon
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;14 Feb 1891 - 20 Dec 1976) =>
     │      │      │ + Margaret Oma Cox
(Abt 1892 Tennessee, USA - )
     │      │      ├─Mary M Bacon
(Sulphur Springs, Washington County, Tennessee, USA;15 Jun 1894 - 27 Jan 1917)
     │      │      ├─Leona M Bacon
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;Jun 1896 - 1968)
     │      │      ├─Robert Fred Bacon
(20 Jun 1900 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 9 Sep 1959 Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio, USA)
     │      │      │ + Thelma L McKinstry
(4 Mar 1908 Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA - 9 May 1994 Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio, USA)
     │      │      ├─Emma Sue Bacon
(Sulphur Springs, Washington County, Tennessee, USA;9 Dec 1902 - 30 Apr 1984)
     │      │      ├─Charles F Bacon
(11 Nov 1903 Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Jul 1986 Doylestown, Wayne County, Ohio, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Ardis Evins
(Abt 1910 Castlewood, Russell County, Virginia, USA - )
     │      │      ├─Bruce Hunt Bacon
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;17 Sep 1906 - 18 Feb 1969)
     │      │      │ + Mary Ann Walker
(24 Nov 1915 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 10 May 2001 Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │      └─William H Bacon
(11 Aug 1911 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 7 Jan 1989 Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      └─Virginia "Virgie" M. Bacon
(1862 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 2 Sep 1939 Umatilla, Umatilla County, Oregon, USA)
     │       + Henry B Bacen
(1860 Tennessee, USA - )
     │       + David N Good
     ├─Elizabeth Bacon
(Abt 1820 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - )
     ├─George Bacon
(2 Feb 1822 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Feb 1902 Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA)
     ├─Mary Bacon
(Abt 1825 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - )
     ├─Rebecca Bacon
(Abt 1827 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 14 Dec 1851 Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA)
     └─James Bacon
(Dec 1829 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA)
      + Delila Hood
(Abt 1832 Tennessee, USA - )