GMOL | Save or Print a Report

How to Save or Print a GMOL Report

There are several ways to save or print reports, and they vary according to what is available for a page. Some pages are charts, some are text, and many are somewhere in between. Here are some options:

Print or save a document through the Browser.

Using your browser, print the screen-image of the page directly on your printer. Or, you can make a pdf of the report by selecting "Save to PDF" as the printer on most browsers.

GRanDMA OnLine does some optimizing for printing GMOL web pages:

Most of the time, GMOL hides the interactive navigation menu and buttons at the top and bottom.
In some reports, where it is in the way, GMOL hides the top banner.
In a few cases, GMOL can re-orient the page to be suitable for either portrait or landscape printing.
GMOL often changes the color selection to black so the text is clearer on paper.
On some pages, page-breaks are controlled so sections stay together.

What GMOL cannot do:

It cannot set up the header and footer directly. If you don't want some of that information on your browser-printed page, you must set that up through the browser.

.doc file

Microsoft doc Format.

This format is available for some reports. They may be downloaded as a .doc file.

Other pages might provide a simple text file. It may be of interest that the internal encoding for GRanDMA Online .doc files is RTF (Rich Text Format.)
With a .doc file (or a text file), you can:

Open and edit the report in Word, Google Docs or another word processor.
Edit it or save it in Microsoft Word (docx, pdf or text formats).
Don't have Microsoft Word available? Convert it online to something else: .docx, .pdf, image files, other word-processing formats, presentation format like PowerPoint, or EBook format. The free service at https://convertio.co is excellent for converting to other formats. (Google Docs handles our doc files that contain tables much better after conversion to docx.)

As of 4/18/2023, the following reports produce downloadable, editable .doc files:

Individual Profile
Simple Ahnentafel
Narrative Ahnentafel
Descendants
Group Sheets
Alphabetic or birthdate lists
Individual Timelines

file in image format

Image Format.

A few reports output a high-resolution graphics (png) file which can be embedded in other documents or taken to a commercial printer to print at high resolution.

.csv file or

.txt file

Lists.

Sometimes you just need a list to put in a spreadsheet or working document. A number of reports provide lists as either txt or csv files. .csv files can be opened in Excel or Google Sheets.

Others.

I continue to work on and search for other solutions. If you have a particular need, let me know (klr).

Prepared for , 12/1/2024 10:13:21 AM

Database: ,

Mennonite Genealogy, Inc.

GRanDMA OnLine Website (https://grandmaOnline.org): GMOL v7.5.119;

K. L. Ratzlaff

, Lawrence, KS, 11/2000‑12/2024

Database: , Mennonite Genealogy, Inc.

GRanDMA OnLine Website (https://grandmaOnline.org): GMOL v7.5.119; K. L. Ratzlaff, Lawrence, KS, 11/2000‑12/2024