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.
:     └─Freda Vianna Hutcheson
(Cold Spring, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA;4 Nov 1896 - 4 Jan 1981)
:      Charles Emmitt Brown
(Cold Spring, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA;21 Dec 1892 - 28 May 1955)
:           ├─William Clarence Brown
(29 Oct 1916 Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 9 Apr 2001 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA)
:           │ Elizabeth Mae Frazier
(3 Jul 1929 Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 14 Aug 2011 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA)
:           ├─Frances Elizabeth Brown
(6 May 1921 Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 5 Jun 2011 Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, USA)
:           │ + Howard Farmer
(14 Mar 1914 Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Jul 1986 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA)
:           └─Sallie Blanch Brown
(15 May 1926 Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 29 Apr 2013 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA)
:            Florian Dale Hannah
(5 Dec 1925 Maryland, USA - 18 Nov 1987 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
:            :     │ + Living
:            :     │ + Living
:            :     ├─James Edward Hannah
(20 Dec 1957 Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA - :            :     │ 25 Sep 2006 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA) =>
:            :     │ + Living
:            :      + Living
:            + Living
Martha 'Ada' Seitz
(19 Aug 1876 Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA - 20 May 1961 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Thomas Joe Hutcheson
(Cold Spring, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA;12 May 1903 - 27 Nov 1983)
     │ Katherine Baker Matthews
(1 Feb 1906 Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 3 Jul 1985 Cold Spring, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ Thomas Howard Ellington
(16 Mar 1925 Wartrace, Bedford County, Tennessee, USA - 12 Jun 1998 Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      └─Clyde Matthews Hutcheson
(12 Jul 1940 Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 14 Feb 2015 Mills River, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA)
     │       Donna Lee Moore
(3 Mar 1938 Madison County, North Carolina, USA - 16 Dec 1992 Horse Shoe, Henderson County, North Carolina, USA)
     │             + Living
     ├─Robert Lee Hutcheson
(27 May 1911 Cold Spring, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 27 Feb 1963 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ Clara 'Lucille' Simmons
(21 Sep 1912 Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA - 12 Dec 1997 Hixson, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)