Saving Charts
Saving a Copy of a Chart
Saving a Chart as a Graphic File
Opening a Chart in Apple's Preview App
Naming Charts
Deleting Charts
Opening Charts
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Copying and Pasting Objects and Charts
Unlike family files, where changes to information are saved instantly and automatically, the changes you make to a chart can be saved or discarded.
To save changes to a chart, choose
. When saving a new chart, Reunion will ask you to name the chart.To save an exact copy of a chart, choose Folder Settings.
. Then type a file name into the Save window. Using the Save window, you can navigate to choose a different location for the copy. The default location can be specified in theIf enabled, the here.
button will resample images in the chart. More information appearsReunion can save or export charts in several different image formats. The format to choose will depend on your needs. (Notes about file format, resolution, and size limitations appear below.)
To save a copy of the current chart as a TIFF, PNG, JPEG, or PDF file, choose . Then choose the desired image file format by clicking the menu button in the Save window, shown below.
Using the
menu to...When saved as a graphic file, the resulting chart can be attached to an email, added to a Reunion book, placed or inserted into a word processing document, uploaded to Facebook or any other place that accepts images, opened in PhotoShop or any image-editing app, etc. It can also be added to a person or family in Reunion and displayed as a "picture."
The maximum graphic file dimensions are: 455 x 455 inches. This limit is set by macOS.
Reunion also works with Apple's Preview app to save or export charts in different image formats. The Preview app is already on your Mac; it comes with the macOS.
To open a chart in the Preview app, choose
and then select one of these three items...When the chart appears in Preview, three things have happened...
The chart can be modified using the tools of Preview. For example: several annotations tools are provided.
The chart can also be saved/exported in other formats by choosing
in the Preview app. The file-format options below will appear after choosing the menu command.When saved or exported by Preview, the resulting file can be attached to an email, added to a Reunion book, placed or inserted into a word processing document, uploaded to Facebook or any other place that accepts images, opened in PhotoShop or any image-editing app, etc. It can also be added to a person or family in Reunion and displayed as a "picture."
Note: The Preview app may have some restrictions on file size/dimensions when the chart is being exported to a specific graphic format. For example, the maximum size of a JPEG is about 65,000 pixels squared. Attempting to export a JPEG file of a larger chart from Preview may cause the Preview app to crash. However, Reunion does not impose a size limitation on what is initially sent to Preview via Reunion's menu command.
Another Note: Although Apple's Preview app isn't the only PDF reader available, 3rd party apps may or may not open very large PDF charts properly. As of mid-2017, PDFpenPro works fine with large charts. However, Adobe Acrobat Reader fails on large charts (in particular, more than 200 inches in width or length). GraphicConvert10 also seems to work.
Although Reunion can create and print very large charts, there are limitations imposed by macOS that need to be considered when saving graphic files. These limitations also affect copying charts to the Clipboard. As charts get larger it becomes more and more unreasonable to expect the exported graphic file to be manageable in size and ultimately it may become impossible for Reunion to export such a chart.
TIFF, PNG and JPEG are bit-mapped formats. When using Preview or Reunion to export a bit-mapped file format, the entire chart is constructed in memory pixel by pixel (including all the pixels for the white space of the paper) before being rendered to an image file. This processing takes a lot of memory and may also require a long time, depending on your Mac. Then this virtual chart image is converted to a graphic file and saved.
While it's difficult to put an exact limitation on this, it's fair to say that as a chart exceeds about 5 feet in any direction, it is approaching the limits of the system's ability to create a bit-mapped graphic file and will be far beyond a reasonable size for viewing in a web browser or any other app.
PDF is a vector based image format and therefore will display with the highest quality and have a smaller file size (if a chart has no images). It will also take less memory to render into a graphic than the bit-mapped formats. It is quite possible that a large chart that can't be saved as a JPEG can be saved as a PDF. If the goal is sending the chart to a third party with a large printer, it's a good idea to save the chart as a PDF (unless the third party supports native Reunion chart files, such as Heartland Family Graphics).
When saving a chart as a PDF file (using
), transparency is included.When saving a chart as a TIFF or PNG file, you have the option to include transparency. (JPEG files do not support transparency.)
If you save a chart as a PDF file, or as a TIFF or PNG file with the
button checked, and you see a white background when you open the file in another app (such as Preview), it means that the other app isn't supporting the transparency.Charts are named when they are saved in the Save window. You cannot rename a chart within Reunion except by choosing
and renaming the copy.To change the name of a chart file...
The next time you open the chart, you will notice the new name in the title bar of the chart's window.
To remove chart files from your hard disk...
Note: | "Open" is used to open an existing chart — one that was already created. If you need to create a new chart, click Learn more. | in the navbar on the left.
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If Reunion is running, you can open a chart you've already created by choosing
.In the Finder, you can also double-click a chart icon to start Reunion and open the chart.
Although charts may be saved anywhere on your system, the default location is: Home/Documents/Reunion Files/Charts.
If you attempt to open a chart that was created using fonts that are no longer in your system (or perhaps on another Macintosh with a different set of fonts), the Missing Font window will appear when you attempt to open the chart.
In this window, fonts installed in the current Mac/System may be substituted for fonts originally used in the original Mac/System when the chart was created. To save the chart with the new, substitute font selections, choose
after opening the chart.To close a chart window, click the button (at the left end of the title bar) or choose .
Closing a chart is not the same as quitting Reunion.