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.
     │ :     ├─Charles A. Bacon
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;1878 - 1880)
     │ :     ├─Robert Issac Bacon
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;29 Apr 1880 - 30 Mar 1926)
     │ :     │ Minerva (Nerva) Jane Woods
(28 May 1886 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 3 Aug 1975 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :     │      ├─Robert Olen Bacon
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;30 Jun 1906 - 11 Jul 1992)
     │ :     │      │ + Irene Watson
(2 Mar 1908 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 15 Dec 1999 Oldfort, Polk County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :     │      ├─Ruby Lee Bacon
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;22 Oct 1908 - 12 Dec 1921)
     │ :     │      ├─Marvin B Bacon, Sr
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;6 Jun 1911 - 7 Feb 2000)
     │ :     │      │ Grace P ??
(1914 Tennessee, USA - 1986 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :     │      ├─W Kenneth Bacon
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;27 Dec 1914 - Jan 1985)
     │ :     │      └─James Arthur (Ott) Bacon
(14 May 1917 - 13 Sep 1991)
     │ :     ├─James Franklin Bacon
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;30 Jan 1882 - 10 Apr 1967)
     │ :     │ + Lucy Pearl Humberd
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;29 Aug 1892 - 15 May 1967)
     │ :     ├─William Edgar Bacon
(2 Mar 1884 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 27 Sep 1966 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :     │ Sarah Martha (Mattie) Southerland
(1 Oct 1886 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 28 Jan 1975 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :     │      ├─Marie Bacon
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;6 Jan 1911 - 5 May 1998)
     │ :     │      │ + Raymond Roberson
(17 Nov 1908 Tellico Plains, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA -      │ :     │      │ 1 Apr 1998 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :     │      └─Frank Bacon
(Abt 1915 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │ :     ├─Sarah Catherine Bacon
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;22 Feb 1886 - 3 Dec 1976)
     │ :     │ + William T Southerland
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;19 Oct 1882 - 10 Nov 1908)
     │ :     ├─Benjamin Harrison Bacon
(30 Jul 1892 Tennessee, USA - 12 Mar 1972 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :     │ Mamie Ruth Epperson
(7 Oct 1895 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Sep 1997 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :     │      ├─Charles Willard Bacon
(Abt 1917 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │ :     │      │ + Living
     │ :     │      ├─Paul Huston Bacon
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;8 Aug 1918 - 15 Oct 2006)
     │ :     │      │ Mamie Wilson Beasley
(3 Sep 1923 Elkton, Giles County, Tennessee, USA - 10 May 2017 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :     │      ├─Benjamin Hoyle Bacon
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;30 May 1925 - 16 Aug 1926)
     │ :     │      └─William R Bacon, Sr
(9 Nov 1934 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 11 Dec 2013 Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA)
     │ :     │       Living
     │ :     └─Margie B Bacon
(9 Mar 1896 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 9 Jan 1978 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :      Frederic Madison Howell
(18 Sep 1898 Polk County, Tennessee, USA - 2 Jul 1973 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ :           ├─Minnie R Howell
(Abt 1920 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │ :           ├─Robert Fred Howell
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;13 Jan 1921 - 22 Sep 1991)
     │ :           ├─Wood Ira Howell
(20 Jan 1930 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 18 Jan 2013 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA)
     │ :           ├─Nellie Marie Howell
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;25 Jan 1936 - Sep 1972)
     │ :           └─Clarence Randall Howell
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;15 Apr 1941 - 9 Feb 2002)
     │ Eliza Elnora Burchfield
(6 Aug 1871 Tennessee, USA - 1 Jan 1938 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─George Leonard Bacon
(5 Jan 1903 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - )
     │      ├─John Wesley Bacon
(26 Oct 1904 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 21 Jun 1997 Shreveport, Caddo County, Louisiana, USA)
     │      ├─Nora M Bacon
(1907 Tennessee, USA - )
     │      └─Theadore H Bacon
(1909 Tennessee, USA - )
     ├─Matilda "Tinnie" Bacon
(Abt 1857 Tennessee, USA - 3 Jul 1899 Crawford, McLennan County, Texas, USA)
     │ + Franklin Canady Cooper
(4 Oct 1853 Murray County, Georgia, USA - 20 Jun 1902 Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA)
     ├─Sarah Bacon
(1858 Tennessee, USA - )
     ├─Therese L Bacon
(Abt 1861 Tennessee, USA - )
     ├─Martha A Bacon
(Abt 1864 Tennessee, USA - )
     ├─Charles Franklin Bacon, Jr
(20 Dec 1866 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 6 May 1931 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ Dicie L Lawson
(9 Jun 1869 Tennessee, USA - 4 Jan 1910 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Clara L Bacon
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;27 Sep 1888 - 3 Oct 1943)
     │      │ + Thomas Edward Weaver
(13 May 1885 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 21 Apr 1951 Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Bettie Marie Bacon
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;14 Oct 1891 - 13 Jan 1944)
     │      │ + John T Donley
     │      └─Vida Bacon
(Dec 1899 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - )
     └─Susan Elizabeth Bacon
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;18 Aug 1868 - 16 Oct 1890)
      + Matt P Mallett
(Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;Abt 1865 - 21 May 1910)