The paper length is not relevant since the chart flows from one page to the next.
Mobile
in.
mm
Portrait
2.75
70
For smart phones, not for printing
Landscape
5.5
140
For smart phones, not for printing
USA & Canada
in.
mm
Letter Portrait
8.5
216
Also Legal Portrait
Letter Landscape
11
279
Legal Landscape
14
356
Also Ledger Portrait
Ledger Landscape
17
432
International
in.
mm
A5 Portrait
5.82
148
A4 Portrait
8.25
210
Also A5 Landscape
A4 Landscape
11.71
297
Also A3 Landscape
A3 Landscape
16.54
420
The Text+ programs assume that the right and left margins are each about 25mm (1/2 inch) wide.
On the Format for Printing page, differences in page margins can be accommodated by the "fudge factor":
TNG Descendant Charts
Please note that you don't have to depend on these descriptions; you can quickly try out each of the chart types.
Graphical formats
"Standard" charts have a marvelous graphical format and show a fair amount of data for each person,
but they generate so much whitespace that they tend to be wider than the screen (or a printed page)
They tend to be hard to read and almost impossible to print if you generate more than three or four generations of data.
"Compact" charts have similar graphical layout, and are easier to read and print,
but don't display any data other than each person's name.
Note that if you want to print a "Compact" chart
with more than three or four generations of data,
you should probably specify "Landscape" orientation when you print.
The "PDF chart" is kind of a cross between the standard and compact formats, generated as a PDF.
On most computers, any web page can be printed as a PDF,
but this PDF format handles page breaks for specific paper sizes,
wheras PDF printouts of web pages just run the text through the page breaks
(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level.
When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll whell or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)
Text formats
"Text" charts follow a standard outline-style format that provides more (i.e. denser) data than the graphical charts do.
"Text+" charts are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats.
They can display much more data in less space than graphical charts or the "Text" chart.
(That's good news and bad news).
In particular, they requires much less horizontal scrolling,
and can accommodate large charts in one printed page width
(albeit sometimes with legal-sized paper in landscape mode).
They are also much more flexible than the other formats,
with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
However,
The process of printing a Text+ chart can be a bit daunting, and
When you are looking at just a few generations, and when enough data is visible on the screen, the graphical charts tend to be easier to read.
"Register" charts are detailed descriptive reports.
They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes.
But they aren't really 'charts' in the normal sense,
and don't give this kind of overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Count" charts don't list descendants at all;
they just show how many descendants a person has, broken out by generation.
Father: James Terry
(1768 Granville County, North Carolina, USA - 1828 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA)
Mother: Mary Gooch
(1774 Granville County, North Carolina, USA - 1832 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
Curtis Terry
(12 Jul 1803 Granville County, North Carolina, USA - 11 Sep 1883 Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, USA)
Elizabeth Kuykendall
(1805 North Carolina, USA - Bef 1879 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
:     ├─Elijah Washington Terry
(Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee, USA;7 Apr 1823 - 5 Jul 1901)
:     │ Sara Anderson
(17 Jun 1827 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 28 Dec 1859 Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
:     │ :     └─six children
:     │ + Angelina Abigail Denton
(13 Jun 1827 Sparta, White County, Tennessee, USA - :     │ 18 Jan 1915 Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
:     ├─Vincent M Terry
(Jul 1824 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 1869 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA)
:     │ + Sarah Catherine Dowell
(Jul 1824 Tennessee, USA - 23 Feb 1906)
:     ├─James Braswell Terry
(7 Nov 1831 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 5 Apr 1904 Bradley, Grady County, Oklahoma, USA)
:     │ + Amanda Melvina Pearson
(18 May 1834 Putnam County, Tennessee, USA - 8 Apr 1890 Oakland, Marshall County, Oklahoma, USA)
:     ├─Jesse Kuykendall Terry
(28 Apr 1834 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 28 Jul 1864 Webb City, Jasper County, Missouri, USA)
:     │ + Mary Anne Webb
(2 May 1836 Tennessee, USA - 18 Oct 1858)
:     │ + Mary Ann Stevenson
(Wisconsin, USA - 20 Mar 1899 Carterville, Jasper County, Missouri, USA)
:     ├─Louisa Terry
(Abt 1837 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - Abt 1874 Grayson County, Texas, USA)
:     │ + John Johnson
(Est 1837 - )
:     ├─John Claiborne Terry
(20 Aug 1839 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 23 Jan 1910 Grayson County, Texas, USA)
:     │ Rebecca Jane Green
(14 Apr 1840 Tennessee, USA - 22 Nov 1910 Grayson County, Texas, USA)
:     │      └─7 children
:     ├─Mary Elizabeth Terry
(1842 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 1863 Clay County, Tennessee, USA)
:     │ + George Washington Johnson
(13 Dec 1836 Tennessee, USA - 14 Jun 1896 Clay County, Tennessee, USA)
:     └─William LaFayette Terry
(Sep 1845 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Jan 1912 Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA)
:      + Lucinda Fisk
(Abt 1848 Overton County, Tennessee, USA - 17 Dec 1911 Palo Pinto County, Texas, USA)
+ Sarah C Buford
(Tennessee, USA;20 Dec 1835 - 28 Dec 1912)