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: Levi (Sweet) Trewhitt
(22 Apr 1829 Sunbright, Morgan County, Tennessee, USA - 19 Oct 1916 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
Mother: Sarah A Wattenbarger
(30 Oct 1836 Greene County, Tennessee, USA - 21 Feb 1909 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
Susan Ann Trewhitt
(Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA;20 Oct 1859 - 24 Oct 1928)
William Henry Wright
(12 Feb 1844 Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA - 28 May 1920 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─David Levi Wright
(6 Mar 1880 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 14 Jan 1957 Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─William Luthur Wright
(21 Jul 1881 Tennessee, USA - 6 May 1957 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ Clara Mae Moore
(29 May 1895 Tennessee, USA - 17 Dec 1980 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Hoyt Daniel Wright
(29 May 1915 Old Fort, Polk County, Tennessee, USA - 13 Aug 1993 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ + Nannie Ensley
(23 Jun 1916 Tennessee, USA - 2 Sep 1986 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Glen Thomas Wright
(28 Aug 1917 Polk County, Tennessee, USA - 28 Aug 1991)
     │      ├─Joseph Bunner Wright
(4 May 1921 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 27 Feb 1966 Bradford County, Florida, USA)
     │      │ + Living
     │      ├─James Harlan Wright, Sr
(22 Jun 1924 Tennessee, USA - 4 Jun 1958 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      │ + Hazel Beatrice Wampler
(19 Dec 1922 Englewood, McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 27 Jan 2006 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      ├─Mary Erblee Wright
(28 Mar 1927 Consauga, Polk County, Tennessee, USA - 22 Apr 1995)
     │      │ + James Lee Smith, Sr
(22 Apr 1924 Tennessee, USA - 3 Jun 1996 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │      └─Edward Stanley Wright
(24 Mar 1933 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA - 29 Apr 2009 Delano, Polk County, Tennessee, USA)
     │       + Living
     ├─Andrew Wesley Wright
(25 Sep 1883 Tennessee, USA - Dec 1970 Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + Elizabeth Stephenson
(1 Jan 1885 - 10 Aug 1956 Murray County, Georgia, USA)
     ├─Sarah Elizabeth Wright
(9 Oct 1890 Georgia, USA - 5 Jul 1956 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + Leach Lonzo Lea
(10 Sep 1884 Georgia, USA - 20 Sep 1967 Oldfort, Polk County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Hattie Wright
(17 Feb 1893 Georgia, USA - 1 Jun 1953 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + Lee Russell Snyder
(6 Jan 1873 Polk County, Tennessee, USA - 9 Mar 1940 Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     ├─Alice M Wright
(1 Apr 1899 Shuck Pen, Murray County, Georgia, USA - 24 Jan 1983 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
     │ + Oscar Columbus Mantooth
(2 Mar 1888 Polk County, Tennessee, USA - 7 Mar 1963)
     ├─Mary Wright
(Abt 1902 Shuck Pen, Murray County, Georgia, USA - )
     └─Lucy Malinda Wright
(23 Oct 1903 Shuck Pen, Murray County, Georgia, USA - 2 Aug 1994 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)
      + Jessie H Roderick
(18 Nov 1895 McMinn County, Tennessee, USA - 15 Apr 1971 Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA)