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: Samuel M Richmond
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;13 Sep 1841 - 4 Jul 1898)
Mother: Martha Ann Webb
(1846 East Tennessee - 1907 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
Oleana (Ollie) Richmond
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;20 Dec 1876 - 4 Jan 1957)
     ├─Ona Virginia Brown
(15 Jan 1904 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 26 Apr 1994 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA)
     │ James Cleveland (Cleve) Glenn
(2 Nov 1903 Warren County, Tennessee, USA - 30 Dec 1985 DeKalb County, Georgia, USA)
     │      │ Robert Ira Travis
(5 Mar 1928 Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA - 21 Sep 1988 Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA)
     │      │      │ + Living
     │      │      └─Rob Travis
(15 Oct 1950 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA - 2010 Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, USA)
     │      ├─James Gilbert (Jimmy) Glenn
(10 Jan 1929 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA -      │      │ 3 May 2015 Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA)
     │      │ + Living
     │             + Living
     ├─Winston Turner Brown
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;9 Nov 1905 - 6 Dec 1991)
     │ Olga F Olsson
(29 Nov 1907 Sweden - May 1980)
     │      └─Joyce Marie Brown
(22 Sep 1931 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 4 Feb 2003)
     │       + Richard Edwin Robinson
(15 Mar 1932 Calhoun, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 19 Aug 1978)
     ├─Zenobia (Joyce) Brown
(7 Nov 1909 McDonald, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 2003 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Ortha Ellen Brown
(9 Jan 1911 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 11 Jun 2003 Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ George Ellis Williams
(South Liberty, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;30 Oct 1897 - 15 Feb 1979)
     │      ├─Donald Ellis Williams
(2 Dec 1929 Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 26 Sep 2002 Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ + Hoyle Dickson Elliott
(10 Sep 1915 Englewood, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 15 Feb 1997)
     │      ├─Laura Mae Williams
(16 Nov 1933 Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 8 May 2018 LaVergne, Rutherford County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ + George Joseph Huckabey
(17 Dec 1932 Spring Creek, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 30 Jul 2016 Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Daniel Gilmore Williams
(Riceville, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA;3 Jan 1936 - 16 Jun 1938)
     │      └─Boyd Allen Williams
(26 Sep 1938 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 5 Jul 2012 Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │       + Living
     ├─Jeffrey Franklin (J.F.) Brown
(13 Aug 1913 Tucker Springs, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Nov 1916 Ooltewah, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Laura 'Beatrice' Brown
(28 Nov 1915 Tucker Springs, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 18 May 2002 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + Luther Edmond (Ed) Collins
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;8 Sep 1915 - 29 Dec 1981)
     └─Wayne Brown
(31 Oct 1919 McDonald, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 15 Sep 1985 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
      + Dot Kincaid
( - Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, USA)