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: Benjamin Franklin Bacon
(3 Aug 1834 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 8 Mar 1915 Galena, Stone County, Missouri, USA)
Mother: Mary Ann Trewhitt
(2 Apr 1836 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 3 Feb 1886 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bacon
(30 Apr 1861 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 25 May 1946 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
Jacob Rogers Richmond
(26 Feb 1859 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 14 Feb 1927 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
         ├─Archibald Rogers (Arch) Richmond
(18 Feb 1884 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 26 Jul 1961 Seattle, King County, Washington, USA)
         │ Harriet (Hattie) Lamons
(1884 Tennessee, USA - 7 Jun 1937 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA)
         │          ├─James 'Kenneth' Richmond
(23 Jun 1920 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA -          │          │ 6 Jan 2002 Seattle, King County, Washington, USA)
         │          │ Leona May Barnes
(26 May 1920 West Virginia, USA - 12 Nov 2018 Seattle, King County, Washington, USA)
         │          │          │ Michael Garland Payne
(21 Oct 1942 Seattle, King County, Washington, USA -          │          │          │ : 13 Feb 2008 Blythe, Riverside County, California, USA)
         │          │           + Living
         │          └─Alice Ruth Richmond
(Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA;11 May 1925 - 13 May 1926)
         ├─Paul Augustus (Gus) Richmond, Sr.
(26 Jun 1887 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 14 Dec 1964 DeKalb County, Georgia, USA)
         │ Flossie Lee Groover
(14 Feb 1890 Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia, USA - 1 Jan 1988 DeKalb County, Georgia, USA)
         │          ├─Paul Augustus (Gus ) Richmond, Jr.
(24 Feb 1921 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA -          │          │ 8 Oct 1987 Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia, USA)
         │          │ Catherine Bridges
(6 Nov 1920 Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA - 18 Mar 1977 Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia, USA)
         │          │          │ Guy Martin Thompson
(26 Oct 1949 Paragould, Greene County, Arkansas, USA - 7 Aug 2000 Collin County, Texas, USA)
         │          ├─Lois Inez Richmond
(30 Oct 1922 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA - 26 Sep 2008 Douglasville, Douglas County, Georgia, USA)
         │          │ George 'Gordon' Hawkins
(24 Jun 1920 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA - 5 Jul 1996 Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas, USA)
         │          │          ├─Diane Richmond Hawkins
(Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA;3 Aug 1946 - 6 Jul 2002)
         │          │          │ + Living
         │          │          ├─Linda Suzanne Hawkins
(9 Oct 1949 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA -          │          │          │ 26 Aug 2006 Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas, USA)
         │          │          │ + Living
         │          │                     + Living
         │          └─Nina Sue Richmond
(24 Oct 1927 Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA - 3 Mar 2010 Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA)
         │           Living
         ├─Albert Evans Richmond
(12 May 1892 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 16 Feb 1915 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
         └─Clarence Lester Richmond, Sr
(30 Nov 1895 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 25 Jan 1981 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
          Edith Kuykendall Hutcheson
(10 Mar 1898 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 9 Jul 1996 Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA)
                   ├─Ann Frances Richmond
(4 Aug 1924 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 5 May 2021 Searcy, White County, Arkansas, USA)
                   │ Edward Granville Sewell
(14 Apr 1919 Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA - 27 Mar 1987 Searcy, White County, Arkansas, USA)
                   │          │ Melissa Yvonne Wehmann
(19 Apr 1953 Tarrant County, Texas, USA - 7 Dec 1991 El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA)
                   │                    │ + Kristina N Grosse
(19 Dec 1984 Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA -                    │                    │ : 3 Aug 2011 Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA)
                   │                    │ + Living
                   │                     + Living
                   ├─Mary "Nancy" Richmond
(22 Jun 1926 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 28 Apr 2008 Irvine, Orange County, California, USA)
                   │ Morris Howard Perry
(3 Mar 1926 Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, USA - 21 May 1990 Hixson, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
                   │ Valle Beth Horton
(24 Nov 1929 Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA - 5 Jul 2020 Searcy, White County, Arkansas, USA)
                   │                     + Living
                   └─Joe Robin Richmond
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;7 Jan 1930 - 4 Apr 1947)