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Ancestral Author is a Windows program that constructs hyperlinked Adobe Acrobat PDF files from GEDCOM files, text files, images, and other user inputs. It is very simple to use, and creates high quality documents that can be printed, emailed, published on the internet, or sent to a service bureau for conversion into a bound book. Ancestral Author guides you through the process of creating fully hyperlinked documents, with title page, table of contents, name index, source citations, outline view, chapter and section headings. It extracts NEHGS style register reports automatically from GEDCOM files, producing genealogical reports that can be viewed on any computer - MACs, PCs, Linux machines, etc.
Features:
? Ancestral Author is an easy program to use. It guides you step by step through a procedure that transforms your genealogical research into an Adobe PDF document.
? The PDF format is ideal for distributing your genealogical data. Distribute through email, on the internet, or print it out and use postal mail.
? PDFs are less easily abused than GEDCOMs. They can't be indiscriminately uploaded to Rootsweb, FamilySearch, or other websites; and they can't easily be imported into somebody's genealogy database.
? Easily transform a downloaded GEDCOM into a PDF. Just drag the GEDCOM onto the Ancestral Author desktop icon, and in a few seconds you'll have a fully hyperlinked and indexed PDF document. This makes it easy to view GEDCOMs downloaded from FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Rootsweb, Genealogy.com, etc.
? Or use the Ancestral Author wizard to create more elaborate PDF documents with title pages, chapters, sections, indexes, source references, table of contents, etc.
? You can add pictures to your titles pages, such as a family crest, an old picture of the homestead, or a picture of your great-grandparents.
? You can embed pictures within the text of your document. For example, if you've written a biography of your ancestor, you can import a picture of him or her, give it a caption, and place it on the page containing the biography. You can also use this capability to import scanned images of old documents.
? You can automatically extract descendant reports from your GEDCOM, starting with any individual, including any number of generations. Any number of descendant reports can be extracted. For example, you can extract your father's ancestry in one descendant report, and your mother's ancestry in another. Each descendant report can be placed in the PDF document with its own chapter, and its own title: "Ancestry of My Mom", "Ancestry of My Dad".
? Names are hyperlinked to pages. This makes it easy to navigate the genealogical relationships. Click on a hyperlinked name, and you are brought immediately to the page on which that person appears.
? The index is fully hyperlinked too. Once you find someone in the index, just click on the page number, and you are brought immediately to that page.
? Creates PDF documents up to 5000 pages long, with 60,000 hyperlinks. Extra capacity beyond these limits is also available.
? Want to write a chapter that describes your research? Or acknowledge help from other researchers? No problem. Just write the chapter in an ordinary text file, using your favorite text editor, and import it into Ancestral Author. You can give it a chapter heading like "Acknowledgements", "Research Notes", etc.
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