I need two software products

1. A Book printing software that is NOT based on Ahnentafel format.

I want something that will print the book in Biography format by
family not by numbers and generations.

Example:

Joe Smith was born on December 1, 1830 in Harvey, Connecticut. His
parents were Matthew Smith and Joesphine Comstock. Joe married
Precilla Weston in 1870 in Hartford Connecticut. They had seven
children: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Amos,Andy, and Jose.

Mathew Smith was born in 1871 in Dover Connecticut.

Et, Et, Et..............

Charlie Hoffpauir...

Many genealogy programs will do something like this. Some will also
allow you to generate the "canned" program to an RTF file, then take
it into a word processor to fix up "just right".

The second piece I need is something that will allow me to put an
interactive tree on CD Rom with an autostart capability. The tree
would then be cross referenced to the above book. Even if I have to do
it manually after the fact through Hypertext links. That's ok.

Charlie Hoffpauir...

This is trivial. Loats of free software will provide the autostart
capability, and the interactive tree is also available for free. I
particularly like GED2WWW, but there are many available.

In the autostart I want an Introductory page where I can place a
series of facts and pictures. Like a slide show.

Charlie Hoffpauir...

No problem.

All of this must not be software, add-in or driver dependant.

And above all, it must all be locked so nome of it can be printed,
copied or stolen except if they want to take forever to retype it.

Charlie Hoffpauir...

This part is impossible.

singhals...

Difficult yes, impossible, no. I've been on pages that do it.

Doug McDonald...

Impossible, except as video. Even that can be kludged if it ever
appears in a memory buffer. I have programs that will copy
the screen buffer directly from a standard video card buffer memory,
so even programs that inhibit "print screen" don't work.

And of course, there is that device, the "camera", which goes
to the "printer" and thence to the "OCR scanner", though the
latter step can be stopped by handwriting.

Doug McDonald

Cursor-over is disabled, save-as is disabled, and even print nad
print-screen are disabled. I have NO clue how it's done (probably JAVA
though) but it sure would be good to learn!

T.M. Sommers...

The OP also added the requirement that "All of this must not be
software, add-in or driver dependant." The solution you propose

singhals...

Good point. Anything you put on a CD can be copied. It's probably NOT
possible to share something with anyone without running the risk of
their stealing it by printing off a hard copy.

requires cooperation from the browser, if a web environment is
assumed. Nothing stops anyone from using an uncooperative
browser, or from fetching the pages by other means (telnet, for
instance).

Tutors welcome.

Charlie Hoffpauir...

Well, it's always possible that I misinterpreted the OP. When he said
"....it must all be locked so nome of it can be printed,copied or
stolen...."
I thought he was speaking about a CD, not a web page, and by "nome" I
thought he meant "none". And I would agree that it's possible to
protect against copying by "some" people, but certainly not "all"
people.
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

K0BBE...

I have copy-protected my web page.
When another does the same...: I know how to breack such
protection. ;-)

Dave Hinz...

Of course. If it can be displayed, it can be copied, saved,
manipulated, or whatever. Period.

In fact: it is impossible to protect something on the internet.
I have only the intention to discourage copying. I want "contact"
with my visitors when they want something.

Dave Hinz...

That's a reasonable attitude to take. Kind of "Here's the data in
presentation format; if you want it in gedcom format, let's talk about
how we're related".

Dave Hinz

The product(s) must be able to handle a database of at least 4500.

Charlie Hoffpauir...

No problem.

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Donald Newcomb...

Family Origins did something like this, except:
The writing was very stilted and repetitive. If you entered a location as
"Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA" it would repeat this over and
over everywhere the location was used. In essence, every fact in the
database created a sentence and the sentences were thrown together to make a
book. Before publication, a lot of hand editing was required.

The only way to keep the book from being "stolen" is to encrypt it so that
it can only be displayed by a licensed program that does not permit
printing. That's beyond my experience.