FAQ – Can I print information found on site?

FAQ – How can I print information I find in the site?

A. To obtain a full screen image:

Use the normal Windows Print Screen facility.

1. Just hold the Ctrl key down, click the Print Screen button (this copies the exact image of the screen).

2. Paste into a text editor (such as Microsoft Word) or image editor.

3. Save or print from the word processor or image editor.

B .To print a copy of an image from the screen:

1. In Windows, right mouse click on the image.

2. Select Save as.. from the popup menu.

3. Save the image.  Print at your leisure.

4. In Genealogy to copy photographs do the following.

Click on photos in the left side bar whilst on the Home page or any Genealogy page.

Click on Photos to find your require image.

Use the search facility by entering a name in the box and clicking search.

Use the search facility by entering a name in the box and clicking search.

If available a page will appear with one or more pictures of, in this case,  Dulin’s. A snip from a page is shown here.

If available a page will appear with one or more pictures of, in this case, Dulin's

Mouse over the thumbnail image and a larger one opens. If it is the one you are interested in click on the thumbnail to open the image in another window.

Mouse over the thumbnail image and a larger picture opens.

The larger image opens in a new page which provides various tools to manipulate the picture. But we are only interested in saving the image in order to print it later.

The larger image opens in a new page which provides various tools to manipulate the picture.

With your mouse, right click on the picture and select “Save Image As”, allowing you to save the image to your desktop or a folder to print at your leisure.

With your mouse, right click on the picture and select "Save Image As".

C. To obtain a copy of some text on the screen:

If you are wanting to just take some notes from different pages and print them later, the easiest way to do that is to “copy and paste” the text into a text editor.

D. Using TNG print facility.

There are 2 print facilities within TNG

The first – To obtain a print of a display without the headers and icons:

1. Click on the Print link located above the control tabs.

2. A Print Preview in simplified format will appear in a new browser window.  The name of this window in the taskbar is the name of the page you were displaying.

3. Right mouse click in the Print Preview window, or click on the <<Print>> link in the top right hand corner.  At this point you may change the page orientation from portrait to landscape.

4. Click Print.

N.B. If you are printing a long chart, you might find it better to change the page layout to landscape, in which case the print may occupy more than 1 page.  For very deep chart displays, even this might be so compressed as to be unreadable.  In this case, use the PDF approach.

The second – To obtain an Ancestors chart or Descendants print:

Use TNG’s PDF facility.  This facility enables you to print multi-page reports.  It also enables you to save a report into a file, perhaps to send it to someone.   The format is PDF, which effectively gives anyone to whom you send a report the ability to print it on their computer.  PDF reports are printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is installed on virtually all home computers.

The PDF capability is present on many pages of our web site.  Here it is on an Ancestors Compact chart page (only part of the page is visible):

Click on the PDF link at the bottom right, shown here.

If you want to create a PDF report or PDF file from this chart, click the PDF menu item.  This PDF Generator form opens:

TNG PDF generator.

At this point, you may change the number of generations, change the font and font size and change the paper size, orientation and margins.  You may also, on the Descendancy chart only (shown above to demonstrate this) choose which fields to print.  Then click the Create Chart button.  The PDF Generator will then create the chart in a new tab in your browser.

The top half of the page created from an Individual Report for John Appelton looks like this:

Ancestors Pedigree chart for John Appleton

The top of the page created from an Ancestors Pedigree chart for John Appleton looks like this:

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