# Exporting the Graph View Add on **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** third-party-addon\ **Created:** [August 23, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/exporting-the-graph-view-add-on/4059 "2023-08-23T15:23:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/exporting-the-graph-view-add-on/4059/2 "2023-08-23T16:25:50Z")
[Part of another thread](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/interactive-family-tree-add-on-issue/2775/9) speaks to the “Print” (that ain’t a ‘print’) for this view mode. Although [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/) on Windows had problems finding the avatar & thumbnail image paths for the `.svg` file, I _think_ that [GraphViz](https://graphviz.org/) handled the `.gv` image format file better. The consensus has been that the charts views that Gramps creates generally need some tweaking before committing to a sharable format … like `.pdf` or printing hardcopy. And there aren’t any hard-and-fast rules for the tweaks that could be built in. It might be some minor re-arranging of boxes or some redacting. But rather than spend a lot of effort building a 2nd-rate graph editor into Gramps, it made more sense to output a file that is usable by a 1st-rate tool for graph editing. Someone wrote a thread about manually fixing the filepath and another about swapping in filepath to the big thumbnails instead of the lo-res small thumbnails. But I have not re-discovered those threads yet. _found PR#[245](https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/pull/245) : added an option for changing the thumbnail size from normal to large in gvfamilylines.py_ --- _[View the full topic](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/exporting-the-graph-view-add-on/4059)._