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 Greenlee
(Abt 1759 Ireland - Aft 1803 Mason County, West Virginia, USA)
     │ Jane Reynolds
(1764 Virginia, USA - 1807 Mason County, West Virginia, USA)
     │      ├─Morris Greenlee
(8 Aug 1790 Botetourt County, Virginia, USA - 20 Mar 1864 Wayne County, Iowa, USA)
     │      │ Nancy Kimberling
(28 Jan 1791 Virginia, USA - 14 Jun 1868 Wayne County, Iowa, USA)
     │      │      ├─Nancy Jane (Jenny) Greenlee
(20 Aug 1815 Mason County, West Virginia, USA -      │      │      │ 2 Jul 1890 Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + William 'Arbuckle' Nelson
(13 Sep 1807 Mason County, West Virginia, USA - 4 Aug 1876 Cambria, Wayne County, Iowa, USA)
     │      │      ├─Morgan Greenlee
(14 May 1819 Leon, Mason County, West Virginia, USA - 1 Sep 1904 Mason County, West Virginia, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Eliza Jane Greenlee
(Leon, Mason County, West Virginia, USA;23 Mar 1822 - 11 Jul 1882)
     │      │      │ + Melissa A Londanslager
(Abt 1853 - 1884 Cologne, Mason County, West Virginia, USA)
     │      │      ├─Lewis Leonidas Greenlee
(24 Aug 1821 Mason County, West Virginia, USA - 23 Nov 1907 Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Permelia Sayers
(Dec 1833 Ripley, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA - Sep 1853 Jackson County, West Virginia, USA)
     │      │      │ + Frances Johnson
(29 Apr 1836 Pennsylvania, USA - 18 Jan 1857 Wayne County, Iowa, USA)
     │      │      │ + Hannah Maria Ferrell
(8 Aug 1840 Pennsylvania, USA -      │      │      │ 19 Feb 1906 Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa, USA)
     │      │      ├─Harriet Elizabeth Greenlee
(17 Oct 1826 Mason County, West Virginia, USA -      │      │      │ 17 Nov 1928 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA) =>
     │      │      │ + Granville Weatherston Shelton
(2 Apr 1820 Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA -      │      │      │ 23 Dec 1899 Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa, USA)
     │      │      ├─Ann Greenlee
(15 Oct 1831 Mason County, West Virginia, USA - 25 May 1866 Cambria, Wayne County, Iowa, USA)
     │      │      │ + Samuel Kelso Rinard
(21 Jun 1826 Washington County, Ohio, USA - 25 Sep 1917)
     │      │      └─Morris Greenlee, Jr
(1834 Mason County, West Virginia, USA - 24 Oct 1898 High Point, Decatur County, Iowa, USA) =>
     │      │       + Rebecca Lowder
(29 May 1848 Madison County, Indiana, USA - Aft 24 Feb 1915)
     │      ├─Hamilton Greenlee
(Est 1795 - Missouri, USA)
     │      └─John Greenlee
(4 Nov 1803 - 14 Sep 1834 Mason County, West Virginia, USA)
     ├─Edward Greenlee
(8 Sep 1761 Ireland - 23 Aug 1839)
     └─Jane Greenlee
(Bef 1766 Ireland - Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA)