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: Elihu Keebler
(15 Jun 1822 Washington County, Tennessee, USA - 23 Apr 1904 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
Mother: Cyrenia Fitzgerald
(Washington County, Tennessee, USA;1820 - 19 Nov 1874)
Sarah Malinda Keebler
(27 Apr 1850 Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA - 20 Aug 1935 Boise, Ada County, Idaho, USA)
John Gilbraith Barnes
(15 May 1851 Anderson, Caswell County, North Carolina, USA - 29 Feb 1924 Conway County, Arkansas, USA)
     ├─Dorah B. Barnes
(Abt 1876 Tennessee, USA - )
     ├─Maude Ellen Barnes
(11 Nov 1878 Cane Creek, Grant County, Arkansas, USA - 7 Oct 1965 Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA)
     │ Louis Kimbrough Whitaker
(12 Sep 1871 Dutch Mills, Washington County, Arkansas, USA - 23 Jun 1958 Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma, USA)
     │      ├─Ruth M Whitaker
(26 Sep 1900 Oklahoma, USA - 4 Feb 1986 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA)
     │      │ + Eugene E White
(23 Jan 1898 Zinc County, Arkansas, USA - 27 Jul 1984 Norfork, Baxter County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      ├─Gilbert Riley Whitaker, Sr
(28 Sep 1903 Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma, USA - 21 Mar 1980 Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico, USA)
     │      │ + Melodese Kilpatrick
(7 Jul 1910 Haskell, Haskell County, Texas, USA - 18 May 1997 New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, USA)
     │      ├─Elmer E Whitaker
(5 Jun 1905 Oklahoma, USA - 22 Sep 1967 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA)
     │      ├─Elaine Whitaker
(1906 Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma, USA - )
     │      ├─Callie Louise Whitaker
(Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma, USA;8 Feb 1909 - 2 Oct 1918)
     │      ├─James Orson Whitaker
(2 Apr 1911 Oklahoma, USA - 28 Jun 1998 Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA)
     │      ├─Rowena E Whitaker
(Abt 1914 Oklahoma, USA - )
     │      ├─Maude Eloise Whitaker
(30 Jul 1914 Oklahoma, USA - 28 Feb 2007 El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA)
     │      │ + William Vernon Helms, Sr
(31 Dec 1912 Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, USA - Aug 1975 Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico, USA)
     │      └─Maxine Whitaker
(19 Oct 1915 Oklahoma, USA - 17 Dec 1983 Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA)
     │       + T F Curtis
(Abt 1910 - )
     │       + Thomas C Pitts
(24 Oct 1907 Arkansas, USA - Jan 1978 Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA)
     ├─Edward Cleveland Barnes
(8 Jul 1884 Boonsboro, Washington County, Arkansas, USA - 24 Apr 1961 Boise, Ada County, Idaho, USA)
     ├─Bessie Bertha Barnes
(14 Aug 1887 Dutch Mills, Washington County, Arkansas, USA - 25 Feb 1975 Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, USA)
     │ + Charles Albert Bertram Dyson
(8 Jun 1877 Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon, USA - 25 Dec 1967 Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, USA)
     │ + Orson Vanderhoven Bear
(8 Oct 1886 Medora, Reno County, Kansas, USA -      │ : 24 Feb 1909 Scott, Walla Walla County, Washington, USA)
     │ + Arno Paul Abell
(1883 Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, USA -      │ 13 Jun 1913 Whitman County, Washington, USA)
     └─Suzanne Elma Barnes
(8 Oct 1889 Arkansas, USA - 3 Mar 1970 Polk County, Oregon, USA)
      + Henry Claude Routh
(15 Apr 1889 Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA - )