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.
Adelia Lodemia Gamble
(1 Apr 1845 Rhea County, Tennessee, USA - 26 Aug 1883 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Samuel Gamble Hutcheson
(1 Mar 1878 Tennessee, USA - 10 Nov 1938 Coulterville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ Anna Lee Thatcher
(14 Mar 1880 Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 8 Sep 1952 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Edna May Hutcheson
(25 May 1901 Centerville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 15 Jan 1997 Soddy Daisy, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Chester Ernest Camp
(5 Dec 1900 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 7 Jul 1921 Coulterville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ :     └─Harold A Camp
(Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA;24 Aug 1921 - 17 Oct 1995)
     │      │ + Ralph Graham Davis
(23 Nov 1895 Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Jan 1975)
     │      ├─Margaret Adelia Hutcheson
(16 Aug 1903 Centerville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA -      │      │ Apr 1981 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ + William Marshall Hood
(Abt 1901 Tennessee, USA - )
     │      ├─Bruce Leland Hutcheson
(15 Nov 1905 Coulterville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - Nov 1976 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Thelma Izora Van Every
(6 Apr 1907 Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, USA - 2 Apr 1999 Danville, Danville County, Virginia, USA)
     │      ├─Elba Louise Hutcheson
(15 Nov 1907 Coulterville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 9 Nov 1981)
     │      │ + Arnold Whitten Bowman
(19 Jun 1907 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 25 Jan 1996)
     │      ├─Rena Lynn Hutcheson
(Coulterville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA;14 Jul 1910 - 21 Nov 1921)
     │      ├─Charles Pat Hutcheson
(4 Jul 1913 Centerville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 2 Jun 1982 Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Virginia C Hutcheson
(Abt 1917 Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │      └─Harold Albert Hutcheson
(24 Aug 1921 Sale Creek, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA -      │       17 Oct 1995 Soddy Daisy, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─William Alfred Hutcheson
(6 Nov 1881 Coulterville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 1967)
     └─Anna Adelia Hutcheson
(5 Aug 1883 Coulterville, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA - 1969)
      + Walter Clifford Hetzler
(7 Oct 1878 Ohio, USA - Apr 1966 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)