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: Josiah McCutchan
(27 Oct 1833 New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, USA - 3 Apr 1891 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA)
Mother: Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Nelson
(18 Feb 1842 Madison County, Indiana, USA - 13 Sep 1906 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA)
Ella Ann McCutchan
(Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA;13 May 1868 - 31 Oct 1938)
James Franklin Hines
(28 Apr 1866 Illinois, USA - 8 Sep 1926 Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA)
     ├─Edgar Josiah Hines
(20 Apr 1891 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA - 21 Mar 1974 Seal Beach, Orange County, California, USA)
     │ Minnie Hazel Overholtzer
(11 Mar 1892 Grand River, Decatur County, Iowa, USA - 8 Dec 1985 San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA)
     │      ├─Edgar Kenneth Hines
(Sep 1916 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA - 9 Dec 1923 Grand River, Decatur County, Iowa, USA)
     │      └─Hazel Lorraine Hines
(2 Jun 1918 Grand River, Decatur County, Iowa, USA - 7 Oct 1990 Santa Clara County, California, USA)
     ├─Della May Hines
(15 Apr 1894 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA - 6 Sep 1941 Louisiana, USA)
     │ + William J Zimmerman
(1872 Golden, Adams County, Illinois, USA - )
     ├─Arthur Leslie Hines
(Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA;20 Aug 1897 - 1908)
     ├─Jennie Elizabeth Hines
(30 Mar 1903 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA - 11 Nov 1965 Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, USA)
     │ James Ephriam Shearer
(11 Jul 1897 Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa, USA - 3 Feb 1964 Iowa, USA)
     │      ├─James William Shearer
(1 May 1928 - )
     │      ├─Jean Alice Ann Shearer
(3 Oct 1929 - )
     │      └─John Shearer
(20 Oct 1936 - )
     └─William Franklin Hines
(19 Jul 1910 Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, USA - 10 Jun 1976 Sepulveda County, California, USA)
      Camilla Beatrice Capdeville
(15 Jul 1916 Los Angeles County, California, USA - 1 Jun 2010 Port Hueneme, Ventura County, California, USA)