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.
Honor Durbin
(24 Feb 1825 Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA - 13 Feb 1864 McDonough County, Illinois, USA)
Larkin Crouch Bacon
(2 May 1818 Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 24 Oct 1877 McDonough County, Illinois, USA)
     ├─Mary Ann Bacon
(18 Oct 1843 McDonough County, Illinois, USA - 9 Mar 1936 Golden, Adams County, Illinois, USA)
     │ + Matthew Mason Johnson
(7 Jul 1843 Champaign County, Ohio, USA - 30 Apr 1906 Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois, USA)
     ├─Sarah Alice Bacon
(28 Jan 1846 McDonough County, Illinois, USA - 10 Nov 1933)
     │ + Damon George Tunnicliff
(20 Aug 1829 Herkimer County, New York, USA - 20 Dec 1901 Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, USA)
     ├─George W Bacon
(McDonough County, Illinois, USA;28 Aug 1848 - 13 Nov 1867)
     ├─Sophrenia Bacon
(Abt 1851 McDonough County, Illinois, USA - )
     ├─Joseph Barnes Bacon
(14 Jan 1854 Tennessee, McDonough County, Illinois, USA - 21 Jul 1936 Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, USA)
     │ Elizabeth Lisle Bailey
(Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, USA;25 Oct 1865 - 13 May 1935)
     │      ├─William Sutherland Bacon
(Feb 1891 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA - Jul 1982 Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA)
     │      │ Katherine M Blossom
(19 May 1897 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA - 3 Apr 1976 Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA)
     │      │      ├─Elizabeth Blossom (Betty) Bacon
(3 May 1920 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA -      │      │      │ 12 Oct 1997 Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois, USA)
     │      │      │ + J. H. Dick Macy
(Abt 1919 New York, USA - )