Page Setup for Charts

Page Setup Options Provided by the Print Driver or OS X
Page Setup Options Provided by Reunion


Printing Charts
Printing Problems


Note: This chapter applies to the page setup of chart windows. For example, the chart window that appears after you select Charts > Ancestor and then click Create Chart.

Page Setup Options Provided by the Print Driver or macOS

When you print a chart in Reunion, the settings in the Page Setup window are stored with and applied to the chart, and affect all pages in the chart. The Page Setup window has a collection of buttons and features that are provided by the print driver and/or macOS, not Reunion. Examples include page orientation, paper size, and scaling, etc.

To see these options, choose File > Page Setup.

The options that appear in the Page Setup window depend on the printer that is currently selected, which is shown in this pop-up menu button (in the Page Setup window)...

For more help with choosing a printer, consult your Macintosh Help menu.

Page Setup Options Provided by Reunion

To see Reunion's Page Setup settings...

  1. In Reunion, choose File > Page Setup.
  2. Click the Settings button.
  3. Choose Reunion from the pop-up menu.

Note: the options shown above will only appear if a chart window is open. Otherwise, the page setup window will show options and buttons that apply to reports (not charts). Click here for more information on Page Setup for reports.

Move boxes off page breaks

This option only appears when you choose File > Page Setup from a tree chart. Learn more.

Center chart

In most cases, it's a good idea to center the objects in a chart after you make changes in the Page Setup window. This will optimize the position of the chart and eliminate any unnecessary pages. To automatically center the objects in the current chart when you close the Page Setup window, enable the Center chart check-box button. (This button is checked, by default, for all new charts.)

Number pages

Check this button if you want to number the pages of a chart. (In one page charts, this button is ignored.) Page numbers appear at the bottom center of each page in 10 point Lucida Grande font. Page numbers do not appear on screen.

The page numbering sequence for large charts follows this example...

Printing suggestions

Another Page Setup option provided by Reunion is Printing suggestions. This includes three lines of information regarding the optimum Page Setup settings for printing your chart. These three printing suggestions are...

  1. A recommendation about the orientation of the chart: vertical or horizontal (also known as portrait and landscape).
  2. A suggested scaling if you are trying to limit the chart to one page in width.
  3. A suggested scaling if you are trying to limit the chart to one page in height.
      Look for this in the Page Setup window.
      Vertical and horizontal orientation, respectively.
Back to the Chart

After you close the Page Setup window, your chart will be updated to reflect your choices. For example, if you change the page orientation or paper size in the Page Setup window, the "pages" on the screen — represented by gray lines — will change their orientation and size. Likewise, if you change the scaling, the chart window will reflect your changes.