I am using Gramps 5.1.2 on Ubuntu 20.04. I am a new user to the program. In order to print/plot a large poster of the complete family tree I am looking for a visualization component which is capable to do output something beautiful. Currently, I am looking at Topola Genealogy Viewer and its plugin …

[image] tbsprs: change the date format The date format is a universal setting for all views. You can set this default in Preferences’ Display tab (menu >> Edit >> Preferences) In addition every view has a Configuration option. (menu >> View >> Configure). There is also an Icon on the toolbar…

I also discovered ged2dot . The Python script is available as an extension for LibreOffice. I managed to get it running under Ubuntu. The rendering looks pretty good. I haven’t found out if it can render the complete family tree. It ask for a family when being started. The generated graphic can be…

One other option to consider is the Relationship Graph . Menu >> Reports >> Graph >> Relationship Graph. Other than a few text reports for research and the Narrative Web I am not a big report users

Thanks. :+1: The Relationship Graph report looks nice too. It however does not contain very many information and can’t be configured to do so as far as I can see. Also, I better like the positioning to respect that people of the same generations being located close to each other.

I am now exploring the built-in Family Lines Graph report. It looks promising and renders a lot of information. Now I would like to test how it renders the full graph. Therefore, I have to enter the People of interest in the configuration dialog. This feel very effortful given that I have about 200 …

You need not mention all persons in People of interest: because the “collecting” algorithm recurses along the ancestors and descendants. It will list spouse(s) for people of interest but will not follow this line unless you add these spouses to people of interest. So, you challenge is to determine …

I would be interested to see your patch. It might offer a way to sneak in the GUIDs or person names needed to render all. I surely backup my project regularly. I also followed your advise to identify key persons in the “net”. It turns out very cumbersome and also hard to verify if all have been inc…

My procedure is to designate a start person, e.g. me if I want all my relatives, and have a look at the tree. As I said, this will give all my ascendants, descendants and their spouses. I then add my remotest ancestor. But this has the drawback that descending trees can be really huge with many conn…

I managed to dirty-hack a quick workaround to get all IDs inserted in the Family Line Graph wizard. Don’t throw :tomato: and :egg: on me, please … it is really awful. I share my hack nevertheless - I am sure someone with insides in the program can come up with a well architectured implementation. T…

This is the kind of graph I got. But there are not that many persons in it. When you are in the 100s, it is less readable and in the 1000s unusable.

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mfagan September 6, 2025, 1:26am 35

thanks, I have now posted it: Family Circles Poster - New chart visualization type for use with GEDCOM

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Printable visualization of the complete family tree

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