Comments on: Breakthrough (at last!)

By: Herb Mellinger

Herb Mellinger — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:05:01 +0000

Louis, Understandable with all the extra work it would involve. Looking forward to the Alpha 1.0 release.
Hope things start to go smoother for you and Behold.

Herb…

By: Louis Kessler

Louis Kessler — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:12:21 +0000

Herb: The reason why I included both RTF and HTML export was because they were included in the TRichView package that I use. Whereas, PDF is supported only with another 3rd party add-in. See the RichView page on this.

So it’s much harder to implement than just rewriting like the other two. I’d have to evaluate the other packages, learn how they work, and then twiddle everthing so that the Everything Report in PDF will look exactly the same as in the program.I can’t see this being less than a couple of months work - and you know how overly optimistic I am at my time estimates.

But thanks for mentioning this. What I will do it move it up on my priority list. I still want to get to Version 2 as quickly as possible, with of course Version 1 first. Once there, I’ll reevaluate all priorities, and the ones my users like you have mentioned will get preference.

But sorry. No I won’t be adding PDF export until at least Version 2.

By: Herb Mellinger

Herb Mellinger — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:50:22 +0000

Louis, I have been tracking your work and would like to ask if you could, rewriting the RTF and HTML export procedures wouldn’t it be easier to include support for PDF at this point. I read through your plans and PDF doesn’t show up until some of the maybe to-do’s. Many of the Genealogists I know use PDF for a considerable amount of their data they share within family’s, etc..

Just a question of taking on a opportunity while in the re-write phase of export commands.

Herb…