Stylising Graphical Reports - Family Tree export

Genealogy
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I’m trying to get that report, but it’s not looking great.

If exporting to OpenDocument, the file is crashing the Writer app sooner or later (before the crash I see big mess.

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If exporting into the PDF - it loads correctly and looks correctly, but the fonts are too little. I’ve tried creating my own style with bigger fonts, but no difference noted in exported PDF. The boxes are too wide and text takes only half of the width. In fact whole tree could be twice higher and fonts could be twice bigger. and still would fit on the page.

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Best results achieved with SVG - then loaded into Inkscape I’m able to scale the whole thing into desired size, but still the fonts are tiny and if I increase the size, they don’t wrap around to new lines, but going outside the boxes - so there will be some work to do.

My question is: Maybe I’m trying to reinvent the wheel? Maybe someone have some solution to make the tree look better? I would like to be able to add maybe some nice graphic to the background? Or maybe some ornament to the boxes?
I don’t think about the photos, because most of the people has no photographs in my tree, some of them were born even before the photography was invented :smiley:

So if someone could help me and advise how to export the tree and what software use to stylise it? It would be awesome.
Thanks :slight_smile: :upside_down_face:

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Could you specify the exact Graphical
Report/view you are using for each of the 2 different screen captures?

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It helps if volunteers don’t have extra labor to “get on the same page”

A first observation on the wide boxes in that flowchart diagram: The box widths are uniform.

So they all are the width needed to fit the widest content. (Which seems to be the 3rd colum, 6th row.)

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Sorry for that missing bit.
I think it is some extra plugin:

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I use following menu option:

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However, as I said - if anyone has his own better and tested way to get nice looking tree I don’t mind to use different Report option.

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Now that you’ve discovered the FamilyTreeView, try the export to SVG option in there.

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I have tried, and it would be perfect if all texts wouldn’t be missing.
There is no text at all, and all lines are white on transparent, so if I load SVG into Inkscape they are invisible at all.

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Try it in light mode theme instead of dark. And you might want to try Ad Waita theme.

It is still in beta test. So you may have found some theme-related incompatibilities in the export to report to @ztlxltl

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Thanks for suggestion.
If I correctly remember, Adwaita is default theme in Ubuntu. I’m using Mint so the themes are named differently.
I’ve tested light theme and now i see the lines, but text is still missing. I think it is really missing, not just transparent.

Here screenshot from Inkscape generated with light theme:

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Agreed, it’s a bug. Or at least it was a bug that might now be squashed…

The SVG export option in FTV v0.1.118, which is the latest version of FTV compatible with Gramps v5.2.4 works as expected on my (main) Windows 10 device, i.e. using that version of FTV the exported file looks just like what I see on screen.

Meanwhile, on my secondary device, which is Windows 11 based and is (after a bumpy start) now running Gramps 6, FTV v0.1.130 generated a SVG file just like the one you reported, there was no text visible.

However, I found the latest of FTV is v0.1.131, and after installing that, and restarting Gramps v6, the SVG file does include all the text. Check you version of FTV and update if necessary, restart Gramps, and then try the SVG export again.

@ztlxltl are you following this topic?

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Yes.
I fixed the bug with v0.1.131 a few hours ago, see @amikot’s issue on GitHub.

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