Hooykaas, Bill (JUS) RE: Acrobat Talk Digest - 04/21/99
Apr 22, 1999; 05:28
Hooykaas, Bill (JUS)
RE: Acrobat Talk Digest - 04/21/99
-----Original Message----- From: C. Scott Miller [SMTP:millercs@earthlink.net] <mailto:[SMTP:millercs@earthlink.net]> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 3:46 PM To: Acrobat/blueworld Subject: PDFs and Genealogy
With all this talk about Genealogy and PDFs I was wondering if someone could recommend a good program for tracing a family tree and inserting personal histories that can then be used to generate a set of PDFs suitable for publishing on CDs. Right now I am looking at the Mac version of Broderbund Family Tree. Like others with millennium fever, I have begun accumulating all those old photos, docs, scans, and new data and have built a tree (in Illustrator). My concern is for whomever gets the finished product (whenever that may be). What platform or programs will be available then for viewing it? PDF seems like a pretty safe format for archiving and graphically robust enough to do all of the visual things I would like to do. Then all of the authoring support files could be included as backup. Anybody have a PDF workflow for genealogy up their sleeve?
I have been dabbling with my family tree for about 5 years now and have just migrated to incorporating PDF. This has only now become possible through Acrobat 4.0. I generate my reports using Leister Reunion 6 (have been using Reunion since 1992, and would recommend it), then I create web pages (cards) of the 1200 family groups from within the application. Once it was put into html I posted it using PageMill 3 (converting to GoLive 4 due to maxing out on PageMill). Until recently that was where it ended, and it was difficult for others to use the information stand alone. Now I simply use Acrobat 4 for windows (why can't the Mac version do this???) and download the entire site into a single PDF file. This file can then be massaged in Acrobat 4 for Mac and distributed either by CD or FTP, if you have such access. A note of caution however, the PDF file is fairly large (12 meg in my case) and will take some time to download, that is why I have not posted it to the web per se, but do make it available to those who want it and do not have either the application or are on a different platform (Reunion is Mac-specific). Since each of the 1200 family cards generates it's own web page--prior to Acrobat 4, the conversion was an impossible task. The PDF I have created is an exact duplicate of the entire site and I am very happy with the results. If interested the site is web.ionsys.com/~hooykaas.
Bill Hooykaas Hooykaas@ionsys.com <mailto:Hooykaas@ionsys.com> Orillia, Ontario, Canada
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