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.
         │          │          │ + John Clark (Abt 1821 - ??)(m. 1 Jun 1848)
         │          │          │ + Christina Shipley (23 Jan 1823 - 17 Feb 1876. 53 years)(m. 13 Feb 1842)
         │          │          ├─Jesse Bacon, Sr (20 Feb 1824 - 22 Jul 1891 bur.Hamblen Co, TN. 67 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Martha A G Cole (1824 Alabama - 15 May 1869 bur.Colchester, McDonough, IL. 45 years)(m. 8 Jan 1846)
         │          │          ├─Samuel Abraham Hunt (1818 - 31 Dec 1891. 73 years)
         │          │          │ + Elizabeth A Heaton (Abt 1830 - 29 Dec 1882. ~52 years)(m. 21 Nov 1848)
         │          │          ├─Simon Westley Hunt (29 May 1825 - 13 Aug 1903. 78 years)
         │          │          │ + Rebeca Stookey (Abt 1838 - 20 Oct 1907. ~69 years)(m. 18 Aug 1857)
         │          │          └─Amanda C Hunt (30 Apr 1832 - 7 Nov 1852 bur.Colchester, McDonough, IL. 20 years)
         │          ├─Thomas Bacon, Sr (1 Nov 1793 - 5 Sep 1871 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 77 years)
         │          │ ?? (w of Thomas Bacon Sr), Sr ( - 1824)
         │          │ :         └─Jesse Bacon (25 May 1824 - 22 Jun 1895. 71 years) =>
         │          │ :          + Mary Keefauver (11 Dec 1832 - 20 May 1863. 30 years)(m. 5 Aug 1851)
         │          │ Sarah (Sally) Barron (15 Aug 1805 - 12 Dec 1871 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 66 years)
         │          │ (m. 15 Dec 1825)
         │          │          ├─Phoebe Ann Bacon (26 Mar 1825 - 25 Dec 1900 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 75 years) =>
         │          │          │ + William Thompson Cox (20 Dec 1811 - 29 May 1883 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 71 years)
         │          │          │ (m. 28 Jan 1858)
         │          │          │ + Amanda Ellis (Abt 1827 - 16 May 1912. ~85 years)(m. 20 Feb 1847)
         │          │          ├─Mary F (Pop) Bacon (19 Sep 1827 - 17 May 1899. 71 years)
         │          │          │ + Elbert S Douglass (7 Mar 1828 - 18 Dec 1910. 82 years)(m. 9 May 1852)
         │          │          │ + Nancy Mary Keebler (6 Dec 1833 - 13 Aug 1894. 60 years)(m. 26 Oct 1879)
         │          │          ├─Daniel B Bacon (27 Oct 1831 - 5 Dec 1857. 26 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Cynthia Fitzgerald (1831 - 1891 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 60 years)(m. 25 Jan 1853)
         │          │          ├─John N Bacon (26 Jul 1832 - 22 May 1895. 62 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Ellen Delinah (Lina) Douglass (25 Apr 1825 - 15 Nov 1892. 67 years)(m. 26 Oct 1851)
         │          │          ├─James Bacon (Jan 1834 - 12 Jan 1858 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. ~23 years)
         │          │          │ + John Harrison (Abt 1829 - ??)(m. 4 Oct 1875)
         │          │          ├─Thomas Bacon, Jr (1839 - 27 Dec 1866 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 27 years)
         │          │          │ + Mary Elizabeth Jones (23 Jul 1846 - 10 Oct 1925. 79 years)(m. 1867)
         │          │          ├─Amanda Jane Bacon (18 Mar 1844 - 22 Jan 1908. 63 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Henry Martin Walker (4 Sep 1833 - 17 Feb 1918. 84 years)(m. 22 Mar 1866)
         │          │          └─Jacob W Bacon (18 Aug 1846 - 16 Apr 1930. 83 years) =>
         │          │           + Mary Elizabeth Gresham (27 Apr 1848 - 1 Aug 1916. 68 years)(m. 1866)
         │          ├─James Bacon, Jr (1795 - 15 Mar 1853. 58 years)
         │          │ Dorcas Jackson (Abt 1792 - 1 Feb 1851. ~59 years)(m. 25 Jul 1812)
         │          │          ├─John Bacon (30 May 1813 - 7 Jun 1863. 50 years)
         │          │          ├─Nancy Bacon (6 Dec 1819 - 10 May 1889. 69 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Charles Bacon (6 May 1814 - 2 Mar 1894. 79 years)(m. 8 Jun 1837)
         │          │ Leah Jackson (Abt 1797 - Bef 1860. ~62 years)(m. 25 Jun 1820)
         │          │          ├─Jeremiah Bacon (7 Mar 1824 - 31 Jan 1868. 43 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Susan Sharp King (4 Mar 1822 - 20 Jun 1904. 82 years)(m. 18 Dec 1844)
         │          │ + Daniel Barron (31 Jan 1799 - 15 Dec 1876. 77 years)(m. 29 Oct 1818)
         │          │ Jacob Jackson (1800 - 21 Mar 1864 bur.Jefferson Co, KY. 64 years)(m. 1 Nov 1821)
         │          │          ├─Jonathan Jackson (13 Aug 1824 - 1 Feb 1896. 71 years)
         │          │          ├─Isaac Newton Jackson (Abt 1825 - ??)
         │          │          ├─Hannah Jackson (Abt 1828 - ??)
         │          │          ├─Charles Jackson (Abt 1830 - ??)
         │          │          ├─Mary Jackson (Abt 1834 - ??)
         │          │          ├─George Jackson (1835 - ??)
         │          │          └─James Jackson (Abt 1840 - ??)
         │          ├─Jonathan Bacon (1801 - Feb 1860 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 59 years)
         │          │ Deborah Barnes (30 Dec 1807 - Aft 1880 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. >74 years)(m. 8 Sep 1825)
         │          │          │ + John J Howard (Abt 1839 - 30 May 1880. ~41 years)(m. 30 Aug 1866)
         │          │          ├─Elizabeth Bacon (17 Aug 1841 - 3 Dec 1915 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 74 years) =>
         │          │          │ + James T Cox (3 Mar 1844 - 13 Jul 1891 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 47 years)(m. 11 Nov 1866)
         │          │ Jane Bacon (Betw 1808 and 1810 - 1856. ~48 years)(m. 11 Aug 1831)
         │          │ :         ├─Charles Bacon (25 Dec 1834 - 5 Mar 1892. 57 years)
         │          │ :         │ + Mary Ann Riggs (Est 1834 - ??)(m. 10 Aug 1852)
         │          │ :         └─Joseph Milburn Bacon (17 Aug 1854 - 15 Aug 1926. 71 years) =>
         │          │ :          + Gertrude Elizabeth Lady (20 Sep 1874 - 20 Aug 1917. 42 years)(m. 1898)
         │          │ Margaret Ann Bayless (1823 - 1860. 37 years)(m. 23 Oct 1856)
         │          │ :         ├─Elizabeth Jane Bacon (1858 - ??)
         │          │ :         └─Samuel Monroe Bacon (31 Aug 1859 - 8 Feb 1922. 62 years) =>
         │          │ :          + Etta Lou Bacon (8 Oct 1865 - 10 Nov 1952. 87 years)(m. 1883)
         │          │          ├─Wilson Bacon (25 May 1864 - 13 Feb 1940. 75 years)
         │          │          └─Enoch Benjamin Bacon (2 Jun 1866 - 12 Dec 1933. 67 years)
         │          │ James Rogers Mitchell (1 Dec 1798 - 4 Jun 1878. 79 years)(m. 8 Nov 1825)
         │          │          │ + Ruth Hale (27 Nov 1824 - 19 Jan 1884. 59 years)(m. 18 Aug 1846)
         │          │          ├─Abigail Mitchell (15 Mar 1833 - 6 Jan 1885. 51 years)
         │          │          │ + John W Combs (16 Oct 1828 - 7 Apr 1895. 66 years)(m. 27 Aug 1850)
         │          │ Isaac W Fulkerson (26 May 1802 - 2 May 1882. 79 years)(m. 12 Feb 1825)
         │          │          ├─James C. Fulkerson (30 Nov 1830 - 20 Dec 1902. 72 years)
         │          │          ├─Milton Monroe Fulkerson (10 Nov 1833 - 2 Jan 1911 bur.Washington Co, TN. 77 years)
         │          │          │ + Mary E Kincheloe (17 Aug 1839 - 26 Mar 1904 bur.Washington Co, TN. 64 years)(m. 24 Jan 1864)
         │          │          └─Mary C Fulkerson (20 Jan 1846 - 8 Aug 1917. 71 years)
         │          │           + James Horace Kincheloe, Jr (13 May 1834 - 25 Sep 1900. 66 years)(m. 1887)
         │          │ Andrew D Guinn (Abt 1808 - 5 May 1877. ~69 years)(m. 23 Oct 1833)
         │          │          ├─Charles B Guinn (1841 - ??)
         │          │          ├─Amanda Jane Guinn (9 Jul 1842 - 18 Mar 1922. 79 years)
         │          │          │ + George W Proffitt (1 May 1848 - 19 Mar 1891. 42 years)(m. 14 Jul 1875)
         │          └─Charles Bacon (6 May 1814 - 2 Mar 1894. 79 years)
         │           Nancy Bacon (6 Dec 1819 - 10 May 1889. 69 years)(m. 8 Jun 1837)
         │                    ├─Mary Ellen Bacon (2 Feb 1838 - 24 Nov 1909 Dallas Co, MO. 71 years)
         │                    │ + Samuel Washington Baines (11 Nov 1825 - 23 Aug 1906. 80 years)(m. 8 Dec 1853)
         │                    ├─Amanda Jane Bacon (16 Apr 1841 - 3 Oct 1907. 66 years)
         │                    │ + Joseph Benjamin Sherfey (26 Apr 1838 - 30 Jul 1920. 82 years)(m. 21 Jul 1858)
         │                    ├─James Charles Bacon (22 Feb 1844 - 18 Jun 1902. 58 years) =>
         │                    │ + Elizabeth Douglas (Abt 1848 - ??)(m. 8 Mar 1866)
         │                    │ + William F Robertson (Abt 1843 - ??)(m. 28 Feb 1862)
         │                    ├─Rachel E Bacon (1849 - ??)
         │                    ├─Dicy Alice Bacon (7 Apr 1855 - 19 Aug 1903. 48 years)
         │                    │ + James Cosson Humphreys (1 Aug 1840 - 10 Dec 1920 Bearden, Knox, TN. 80 years)(m. 4 Jan 1870)
         │                    │ + Cora M Cox (18 May 1867 - 3 Dec 1958. 91 years)(m. 2 Dec 1887)
         │                     + Henry B Bacen (1860 - ??)
         │                     + David N Good (m. 3 Apr 1879)
         │          │ George Jackson, Jr. (2 Mar 1792 - 2 May 1862. 70 years)(m. 12 May 1813)
         │          │          ├─Infant Son Jackson (Abt 1815 - Abt 1815. ~0 years)
         │          │          ├─Hannah Jackson (Abt 1817 - ??)
         │          │          │ + William Kincheloe (17 Sep 1812 - 4 Oct 1860 bur.Washington Co, TN. 48 years)(m. 24 Oct 1833)
         │          │          ├─Infant Son Jackson (Abt 1824 - Abt 1824. ~0 years)
         │          │          ├─Catherine Jackson (Abt 1825 - ??)
         │          │          │ + David B Howard (Est 1825 - ??)(m. 10 Mar 1859)
         │          │          ├─Mary C Jackson (Abt 1829 - ??)
         │          │          │ + John W Jones (Abt 1824 - Abt 1875. ~51 years)(m. 24 Sep 1855)
         │          │          └─Isaac Jackson (19 Sep 1835 - 6 Feb 1892. 56 years)
         │          ├─Charles Montgomery Bacon, Jr (15 May 1796 - 11 Feb 1876 bur.Washington Co, TN. 79 years)
         │          │ Elizabeth Cary (4 Oct 1809 - 22 Feb 1881 bur.Bacon Cemetery on Elmer Walker Road, Washington Co, TN. 71 years)(m. 31 Jan 1833)
         │          │          ├─Tymanda Bacon (26 Mar 1834 - 24 Jan 1913. 78 years)
         │          │          ├─Louisa Bacon (7 Oct 1835 - ??)
         │          │          │ + Sarah Ann Carey (7 Feb 1841 - 7 Dec 1912. 71 years)
         │          │          │ + Julia Murray (Oct 1845 - 5 Jun 1909. ~63 years)(m. 7 Nov 1867)
         │          │          ├─Nancy J. Bacon (7 Sep 1844 - 6 Oct 1880. 36 years)
         │          │          ├─Henry Nieman Bacon (13 Dec 1846 - 16 Jan 1923 Douglas Co, OR. 76 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Virginia Smithson Winniford (Aug 1847 - 5 Nov 1917 Douglas Co, OR. ~70 years)
         │          │          │ + Scinthia Jane Ferguson (24 Oct 1845 - 25 Aug 1916. 70 years)(m. 4 Oct 1866)
         │          │          ├─Delia Ellen Bacon (13 Apr 1848 - 30 May 1920 Buncombe Co, NC. 72 years)
         │          │          │ + James H Moore (Jun 1845 - ??)(m. 1870)
         │          ├─Catherine Bacon (11 Feb 1797 - 4 Aug 1842. 45 years)
         │          │ Samuel Jackson (13 Aug 1796 Bradley Co, TN - 26 Jun 1866. 69 years)(m. 12 Feb 1816)
         │          │          ├─Mary Polly Jackson (24 Dec 1817 - 2 Feb 1858 Barren Co, KY. 40 years)
         │          │          │ + George Washington Oliver (16 Oct 1817 - 12 Sep 1891 Barren Co, KY. 73 years)
         │          │          ├─James Montgomery Jackson (1823 - ??)
         │          │          ├─Hannah Jackson (23 May 1825 - 28 Nov 1855. 30 years)
         │          │          ├─James Jackson (10 Apr 1829 - 21 Feb 1897. 67 years)
         │          │          ├─Catherine Jackson (May 1833 - ??)
         │          │          │ + John N Bacon (26 Jul 1832 - 22 May 1895. 62 years)(m. 26 Oct 1851)
         │          │          ├─Elbert S Douglass (7 Mar 1828 - 18 Dec 1910. 82 years)
         │          │          │ + Mary F (Pop) Bacon (19 Sep 1827 - 17 May 1899. 71 years)(m. 9 May 1852)
         │          │          └─Elizabeth Douglass (2 Dec 1834 - 4 Dec 1883. 49 years)
         │          │           + William P Barron (17 Apr 1833 - 29 Dec 1912. 79 years)(m. 13 Feb 1853)
         │          ├─Jacob Bacon (1 Aug 1802 - 12 Oct 1859. 57 years)
         │          │ Elizabeth Keebler (21 Apr 1799 - 1870 Bradley Co, TN. 70 years)(m. 4 Oct 1821)
         │          │          ├─Charles Franklin Bacon (27 Oct 1822 - 17 Nov 1880 Bradley Co, TN. 58 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Sarah White (Abt 1825 - ??)(m. 24 Feb 1842)
         │          │          ├─David 'Nelson' Bacon (8 Aug 1824 - 2 Oct 1913. 89 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Matilda Range (May 1824 - 18 May 1906. ~82 years)(m. 30 Mar 1843)
         │          │          │ + James Francis White (Abt 1825 - ??)(m. 3 Apr 1843)
         │          │          ├─Mary Jane Bacon (21 Mar 1828 - Aft 1870. >43 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Whitfield Burson (Abt 1827 Bedford Co, VA - ??)(m. 12 Jan 1847)
         │          │          ├─Elbert Bacon (18 Dec 1833 - 28 Nov 1891. 57 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Mary Jane Young (13 Nov 1833 - 16 Nov 1891. 58 years)(m. 16 Dec 1852)
         │          │          ├─Benjamin Franklin Bacon (3 Aug 1834 - 8 Mar 1915. 80 years) =>
         │          │          │ + Mary Ann Trewhitt (2 Apr 1836 Bradley Co, TN - 3 Feb 1886 Cleveland, Bradley, TN. 49 years)
         │          │          │ : (m. 20 Aug 1858 Cleveland, Bradley, TN)
         │          │          │ + Anna Eglantine Wann (13 Apr 1862 Benton, Polk, TN - 3 Jan 1945. 82 years)(m. 17 Sep 1894)
         │          │          ├─Jacob Bacon, Jr (28 Dec 1837 - 2 Dec 1864. 26 years)
         │          │          └─William Henry Harrison Bacon (26 Nov 1840 - 28 Sep 1882 Cleveland, Bradley, TN. 41 years) =>
         │          │           + Mary Jane Catherine Thomas (Bradley Co, TN;12 Jan 1847 - 24 Jun 1923. 76 years)(m. 5 Jul 1865 Bradley Co, TN)