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Style a Family Chart for Printing

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Select useful details, compare themes and choose a readable paper size.

Use an editable chart with a modest number of relatives. Start with Branching Tree; card controls vary for Radial and Map.

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Choose the visible details

Open Chart details & appearance. Enable Life dates and the other fields you need. Use smaller indirect relatives to keep secondary branches compact, then choose Done.

Field and card-size controls in the appearance dialog.

Try Simple

Choose Simple for a restrained chart. Compare with Modern and check whether every name is readable at your intended scale.

Try Vintage

Choose Vintage. Decorative artwork is separate from Portraits, so compare those choices independently. Old-paper texture applies to Vintage and Aged.

Compare Art Nouveau and Aged

Choose Art Nouveau, then Aged if desired. These are visual themes, not historical evidence. Return to the style you want in the final document and save chart preferences.

Art Nouveau styling of the same relatives.

Set the print page

Choose Export, select chart paper and orientation, and optionally enable the styled PDF chart-page border. Use larger paper or fewer relatives if the small-print warning appears.

Paper and border controls for the chart PDF.

Inspect the exported page

Export PDF and open the downloaded file. Check names, dates, margins and artwork at the intended print size. Save the collection separately; the export itself does not save your edits.

An actual page from the sample PDF export.

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