Version 2.8h adds the following new capability:
Version 2.8f fixes a bug whereby dates with the GEDCOM
BEF and AFT qualifiers were not sorted correctly. For example, AA would
not have put the following two dates in correct order: after 1936, before
1924.
Version 2.8e adds the additional new capabilities:
- Vital dates, notes, and other information about children are now optionally included in Ancestor reports.
In previous revisions, only the optional birth and death dates were
recorded for children. Select "Children" in the "Ancestor Report" dialog, then select
"Include Selected Items". The items selected for the report will be included for children, as
well as ancestors in the direct line.
- Alias names sometimes had forward slash characters around the last
name (e.g. /Johnson/). The slashes have been removed.
Version 2.8a adds the following new capabilities:
- Support has been added for the GEDCOM INDI.ALIA tag. Alias names are now displayed in descendant
and ancestor reports. Note that a new keywords.txt file entry has been
added for alias.
- Children and spouses are now chronologically sorted. Press the OPTIONS button on the opening dialog,
then select the "Sorting Dates" tab.
- Support for the GEDCOM INDI.DEAT.CAUS tag has been added. Cause of death is
now displayed in descendant and ancestor reports. Note that a new keywords.txt file entry has been added
for cause of death.
- The starting page number, which had previously been 1, can now be changed.
This is especially handy if the PDF file produced by AA is to be appended
or inserted into the middle of another document. Press the OPTIONS button
on the opening dialog, then select the "Start Page" tab.
- Support has been added for the processing of unmarried couples. Press the
OPTIONS button on the opening dialog, then select the GEDCOM tab. Help for the "MARR Tag Processing" box will explain how
to use the new feature.
- Note that the keywords.txt file has changed with this release. If you have modified
the keywords.txt file, you'll need to add to it the new entries in
<install
dir>/samples/keywords/keywords.txt
- Several bugs have been fixed, including a bug related to drag and drop on files that
have parenthesis in their names.
This is a FREE upgrade to
existing customers.
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Previous Releases
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Version 2.7 added support for the Windows Vista operating
system.
Version 2.6 added the following new capabilities:
- Added support for "Blended Families", i.e. showing
children from previous or subsequent marriages. This is handy for
showing step children in families whose parents have been married more
than once. Press the OPTIONS button on the Ancestor or Descendant
Report dialog boxes, and select the "Blended Families" tab.
- Drag and Drop GEDCOM browsing has been improved. All individuals are
now output to the PDF file, and are fully hyperlinked. In previous
releases, only direct descendants of the person with the largest
number of descendants (i.e. the "greatest ancestor") were
output to the PDF file. As a result, many individuals in the GEDCOM
were left out of the PDF report, including spouses and collateral
lines. AA 2.6 rectifies this situation, resulting in a PDF file
that shows ALL the individuals in the GEDCOM.
- Full size page images (e.g. 8.5 x 11 inches) are now supported. AA
will not shrink the image to fit the margins. This is very handy for
images that occupy an entire page, and are meant to replace the page.
For example, scanned images of formatted text - tables, lists, etc -
can be directly imported onto a page. On the import text and images
dialog, choose the "Full Page" image location.
- Added the capability to suppress the borders on the title page. This
is not yet part of the Ancestral Author Wizard; you'll have to
manually add the SUPPRESS: BORDERS option to the title page script
statement. For example:
(TITLE "Test of Suppressed Borders" SUPPRESS: BORDERS)
Version 2.5 added the following new capabilities:
- Ability to choose alternate page sizes (LEGAL, LETTER, A4, A5, A6, B4,
B5).
- Support for single column name index as an alternative to the double
column name index that is currently supported.
- Support for divorce records (GEDCOM DIV tag).
- Added "FILE SAVE" operations. To access the "FILE
SAVE" pop-up menu, right click on the AA starting dialog.
- Added support for Title, Byline, and Header wrapping. It is no longer
necessary to use forward slashes (/) to force multiline headings. If no
forward slashes are present, AA will automatically wrap the headings to
fit on the page.
Version 2.4 added the following new capabilities:
- Simplified "quick start" tutorial to help new users get
started quickly.
- Support for lowercase Dutch surname prefixes (van, van der, etc).
- Ancestor (Ahnentafel) Reports.
- Support has been added for family census records.
- The page limit has been increased from 5000 to 12000.
- The maximum number of generations has been increased from 128 to 512.
- On Windows/XP, images are visible in the browse dialog. This is
particularly handy when you're browsing for title page graphics, or when
you're importing pictures.
- "< Begin" and "End >" buttons have been
added to jump quickly to the beginning or end of a long script.
- Education records (GEDCOM EDUC tag) are now output to the PDF file.
- Christening records (GEDCOM CHR tag) are now output to the PDF file.
- Reference numbers (GEDCOM REFN tag) can now be output to the PDF file.
Press the OPTIONS button, then choose the Reference Number tab.
- Added support for Family Tree Maker v11.0 style source citations.
- Added support for GEDCOM 'date phrases'; i.e.dates that don't strictly
match the GEDCOM spec, and are enclosed in parenthesis. These are output
by FamilyHistorian.
- The default keywords for 'born', 'buried', and 'died' have been
changed from 'b.', 'bur.', and 'd.' to 'born', 'buried', and 'died'. If
you prefer the old abbreviations, you can send an email to
support@ancestralauthor.com, and we will help you revert back to the old
forms.
Version 2.3 added support for more GEDCOM tags,
resulting in more information from the GEDCOM being transferred to the PDF
file. Specifically 2.3 adds the following new features to Ancestral Author:
- Occupation, Religion, and Census records are now output to the PDF
file.
- Up to 10 sources per event (such as birth, marriage, death dates, etc)
are now output to the PDF file. Previous versions output only a single
source per event, even if the GEDCOM had multiple sources.
- Notes associated with events in the GEDCOM file are output to the
"Sources and Endnotes" section of the PDF file. In earlier
versions of AA, these notes were ignored.
- Additional source information is output to the PDF file. Sources
attached to a GEDCOM individual (INDI) record are now processed and
output, as are sources attached to a GEDCOM name record.
- Family/Marriage notes are now output to the PDF file. In previous
versions of AA, they have been ignored.
- Spousal notes for children are now output. In previous versions of AA,
the spouse notes for a child would not be output if the couple had no
children.
- Comment lines can now be added to script files, making hand editted
script files easier to read. Comment lines must start with a vertical
bar '|' followed by a space.
- The hyperlink limit has been increased from 60,000 to 150,000.
- Fixed a number of small bugs and usability
issues.
- This release is a free upgrade to existing
customers. Just download the new version, and install. No need to
reenter the registration code.
Version 2.2 added the following new features to
Ancestral Author:
- Improved support for Table of Contents,
including automatic wrapping of long TOC entries, and preservation of
zoom level when following a TOC entry link.
- The ability to select fonts, and to control the
size of the fonts. By making the font smaller, you can reduce the number
of pages in your document. By making them larger, you can increase the
readability. Times Roman, Courier, and Helvetica fonts are supported in
this release. Bold, Italic, and/or underlined
fonts can be used on the title page.
- The ability to independently control the right
and left margin sizes. With this feature, you can increase the left
margin to make room for binding your book. Alternating margins are
supported for double sided documents.
- Added a RESTART button. It is no longer
necessary to exit Ancestral Author to rerun the wizard. This makes it
easier to experiment with different fonts, margins, and settings.
- Added support for top of page images after a
Level 2 header. If a page begins with a Level 1 and/or Level 2 header,
you can place an image in the upper right, upper center, or upper left
of the page without forcing a page eject.
- Fixed a number of small bugs and usability
issues.
- This release is a free upgrade to existing
customers. Just download the new version, and install. No need to
reenter the registration code.
Version 2.1 added the following new
features to Ancestral Author:
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The ability to insert a table of
contents into the PDF document. For a sample, click here.
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More options for controlling how
notes are displayed, including:
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New keywords have been added to
the keywords.txt file, specifically keywords for the table of contents
title, and the preface text for notes. If you are using a keywords.txt
file, you'll have to update your keywords file to include the new
keywords.
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Fixed a problem with very long
source records.
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Fixed a problem with page breaks
after images centered on a page.
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Fixed a problem importing a large
number of images; increased the limit from 100 images to 1000 images.
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Fixed a problem with paragraph
spacing.
Version 2.0 added the following new
features to Ancestral Author:
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The ability to import JPEG images,
and to embed them within text. This makes it possible to include old
photographs of your ancestors, headstones, or scanned pages of
documents. The images can be placed at different locations on the page:
upper left, top half, bottom half, etc. Or they can fill the entire
page. The latter is particularly handy for including scanned 8.5x11
documents (wills, probate records, letters) and including them in an
appendix. For samples, and more info, click here.
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The ability to suppress the
descent list. For example, the following register entry:
1. John3 Smith
(Joseph2,
Jonathan1)
will look like this if the descent list is suppressed:
1. John Smith
Version 1.3 added the following new
features to Ancestral Author:
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The hyperlink limit is increased
from 20,000 to 30,000.
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Generation headers can be output
prior to each new generation. The headers can optionally be placed in
the bookmarks (PDF outline view). E.G.
Generation No. 1
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Raised generation numbers are
placed next to each person in the register report, and on each ancestor
in the direct line. E.G.
1. John3 Smith (Joseph2,
Jonathan1)
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All ancestors in the direct line
can be hyperlinked (previously limited to only parent). E.G.
1. John3 Smith (Joseph2,
Jonathan1)
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All output text and phrases
(including dates) can be translated to another language, or changed to
your preference.
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The Ancestral Author Wizard now
supports insertion of document items (chapters,
headings, descendant reports, etc). No need to re-enter information if
you want to add a new chapter to the beginning of the document.
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Ancestral Author now correctly
processes double quotes in headings, bylines, footers, and names.
Version 1.2b increased the hyperlink
limit from 5,000 to 20,000. The page limit was increased from 1000 to 2000
pages. In addition, the following bugs were fixed:
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Page limit is now checked, and an
error message is generated if the limit is exceeded.
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Extral long URLs in the notes or
sources section caused AA to crash. This has been fixed.
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Sources that used only the ABBR
tag were not recognized by AA. They are now.
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The "BYPASS WIZARD
BUTTON" did not work if the AA window had previously been moved.
This has been fixed.
Version 1.2a added the following new
features to Ancestral Author:
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GEDCOM name browser. Now you can
pick a name from the GEDCOM file - no need to type it.
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Blank page insertion.
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Option to force chapters to start
on odd pages.
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Page number placement options -
top, bottom, right, or alternating left (even)/right (odd).
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Option to change keywords and
phrases. For example, if you don't like the Ancestral Author
abbreviations for born and died (that is, "b.", and
"d."), you can change them (for example, "born" and
"died").
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Simplified and improved help
documentation.
Version 1.2a fixed several bugs,
including:
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Eliminated extra space that
appeared in PDF outline view entries.
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Eliminated placement of
"Family Genealogy" as the footer, when no footer was
specified.
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Crash if a text file was inserted
as the first document item.
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Improper handling of Title Page if
it is not the first item in the document.
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Blank lines in script file caused
termination of script file processing.
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Fixed a minor problem involving
cancellation during process of reading a GEDCOM file.
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Ancestral Author used to ignore
blank NOTE lines, causing multiple paragraphs to run together.
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Improper handling of small and
large system fonts. Buttons were improperly sized, and skewed if the
system fonts were set to anything other than "normal".
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Fixed problem with duplicate
periods (eg Va..) in output text.
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Added options for specifying date
format.
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Added option to insert blanks
between words that are run together due to incorrect GEDCOM formatting.
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Minor cosmetic changes and bug
fixes.
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