The indented descendant report shows the descendants of selected individuals, each on a separate line, with each generation indented relative to the previous one. The information shown includes details of birth or baptism, death, burial, cause of death, occupation, residence and marriages, with some details also of spouses and their parents. This report can be saved to HTML, PDF, RTF and LaTeX formats, and also to the Excel XML format, supported by Excel 2003 and later.
The outline indented descendant report is similar but simpler in format. Spouses are shown on separate lines, parents of spouses are not shown and less information is included. Either numbered generations or a tree format may be chosen. This report can be saved to HTML, PDF and RTF formats, and with numbered generations also to LaTeX.
The compact ancestor report provides a report for ancestors similar in style to the outline indented descendant report. Either numbered generations or a tree format may be chosen. This report can be saved to HTML, PDF and RTF formats, and with numbered generations also to LaTeX. Although with numbered generations this report is less easy to read than with the tree format, it allows more generations to be fitted within the width of a given page.
You can also choose to create a simple report which lists all individuals, in either alphabetic or database order, or descendants or ancestors of a named individual, giving personal details and family links: marriage, children and parents. Producing a listing in database order will allow you to produce supplementary pages as new people are added. These reports can include pictures, but only one for each individual, and this will be the topmost picture listed in the individual datasheet, in the View/Edit interface, for that individual - you can reorder the list to select the picture you want. There are a number of options available influencing the content and layout of these reports. The option to treat notes and text fields as preformatted text is primarily directed at HTML output: the effects differ in other formats.
Each report must be saved as one or more files, either as plain text or HTML or in Rich Text Format (RTF), Portable Document Format (PDF) or as a LaTeX file. Plain text files do not preserve formatting information, and cannot include pictures. If you save your report as a LaTeX file, it cannot be viewed directly, but must be typeset by means of one of the TeX distributions such as MikTeX (which is free).
Files in RTF format can be opened and edited in a word processor such as MS Word, and can be saved as Word documents. They preserve formatting information, including choice of font, bold text and the option to prevent, if possible, the block of data for any individual being interrupted by a page break. The font used is that selected under Options, Fonts... - that is, the same font is used in both charts and reports. When the outline indented descendant or compact ancestor reports in tree format are saved to RTF and opened in MS Word, text wrapping may cause the vertical link lines to be broken as text is wrapped to the left margin. This can be overcome by editing within Word, most easily by shortening long lines. This problem is avoided when reports are saved to HTML or PDF.
You can also produce an HTML report which is linked to an HTML chart. To access this facility, you must produce a 'full chart' in the usual way, and choose to save it to HTML. The HTML Options dialog will then open, allowing you to choose to produce a linked report. The HTML Options dialog provides facilities to select background images, to choose to use frames for the report, and to select colours for background, text and links, with the facility to view and select from the 140 named colours supported by most browsers.
Currently, there are no facilities within the program to print reports, or to preview them - they must be saved to file, and can then be viewed and printed using, for example, Word.