FTM: Printing trees to fit page?

I recently started using FTM 2006 and overall am reasonably happy with
it. But, unless I'm just not using it correctly, one area in
particular seems very weak. I cannot get various small trees printed
the way I want. Typically, I want to get the tree to fill an A4 sheet.
But both types I've tried so far seem unable to do this. There's no
'Fit to page' command or similar, such as you get on most programs
with a print facility.

Graham Hadfield...

The only way I know to achieve a "more or less" fit to page - and I've
printed charts up to 64 feet long - is to use the text and Box size
options to force a larger tree which fits as closeley as possible to
the paper size..

Terry Pinnell...

Thanks, I'll try that approach too.

Seems a fairly basic feature to have omitted?

Here's an example of a print preview for a Descendant Tree

It is obviously going to waste a lot of space and be hard to read if
I go ahead and print that.

I also found that an All In One tree which would have fitted onto an
A4 sheet insisted on centralising itself in the middle of a 4 page
grid! And it cannot be 'dragged' into one of the individual 4 pages

Am I missing something basic here please?

Doug McDonald...

Not within FTM ... what do you expect from Genealogy.com? Flexibility?

However, it's easy: FTM can do a "copy tree" from the Edit menu.

You can paste that into Powerpoint which can edit it to your heart's
content. NOTE: to edit interior pieces you need to select the
whole thing and on the Draw toolbar do an Ungroup ... or many
ungroups in a row if it is complicated.

Terry Pinnell...

Thanks, I'll experiment along those lines. Presumably Word too, as
well as PowerPoint?

Doug McDonald