Best way to print family tree on a plotter

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I want to plot a section of my family tree on an A1 plotter.
I chose Interactive Family Tree for the section but there I can’t see all the children for some family … if I click at that family then the children pops up but some other family children dissapear.
Tried also Graph View but it is the same problem there.
I guess the problem is that both are interactive displays …

How can I choose a static section of the family tree where all families with their children are displayed … even with multiple marriages.

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Have you looked at using custom filters with a Relationship Graph report?

I regularly make a custom filter for a Tag when the selection is complex. Then add to (or whittle away from) the Tagged Persons.

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Howto:_Make_a_relationship_chart

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As I understand from your answer the best solution is to Tag persons in different sections. … agree that it is very flexible.
Some persons in my tree belong to different sections … can a persons have several tags i Gramps?
I tested Interactive Family Tree and have a question … is there away to select fonts, the one I get don’t look so nice.

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I am unaware of a limit on the number of Tags. However, the organizational features make a practical limit. There is no sorting automation nor grouping features. So a large list of tags can become unmanageable.

I posted your request to the Topola Viewer, (a GitHub repository of @PeWu)

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I think what you may be looking for is the Reports ->Graphical Reports → Descendant Tree, with at least several (or many) levels set on the “Tree options” tab for spouses (though I have very rarely needed more than 3).

I use these extensively for talking face-to-face with family members about how people connect, and scribbling annotations and additions straight onto the chart.

If you are prepared to undertake some post-processing to reformat the output, you can often make the resultant chart very much more readable if you output from gramps to svg and edit that, e.g. to relocate one or more of the boxes from the left-most column(s) into otherwise unused space, then resize the entire chart to fit a desired print size. And even before resize you will probably want to change font sizes and/or weights and line weights. Then export to pdf and print to plotter …

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I’m using Reports→Graph→Relationship Graph (actually, a local fork to improve name formatting), and for selecting the correct subtree I wrote a filter plugin gramps_personfilter_excludesubtree/excludesubtree.gpr.py at master · azrdev/gramps_personfilter_excludesubtree · GitHub (TODO: upstream it :confused: )

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So this 5.1 People reachable from <Person>, stopping at <Filter> matches add-on filter rule allows setting a ‘firebreak’ or ‘boundary’ filter when finding related persons?

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Or maybe your ‘reachable’ goes beyond Family connections… such as Associations and Notes?

A more concise name for the Filter Rule is desirable.

  • People related to <Person> until boundary <filter>
  • People connected to <Person> until boundary <filter>
  • <Person> relatives to <filter> boundary
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I tried to test ged2dot in LibreOffice Draw so I installed extension LibreOffice Gedom Import Filer in Draw.
When I opened the exported gedcom file (from Gramps) in LibreOffice Draw nothing happened.

Have following versions:

Gramps 5.2.2
LibreOffice 24.2.5.2
LibreOffice Gedom Import Filer 0.7

Any ideas?

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