I scanned a lot of old black and white family photos and also created family trees for the people in the photos using 'Reunion 9'.
I then combined them in a Word document, with text I wrote about their lives, and printed some pages at OfficeWorks to see how they turned out. On some pages I used black and white family trees and others had colour.
The photos printed very well but all the family tree pages were blank. The staff said it was a Macintosh computer incompatibility problem.
Update: I've worked out a solution:
PROBLEM:
Using a Macintosh computer and copying and pasting scanned photos and Reunion family tree charts into a MS Word document created good colour copies of the photos at the local OfficeWorks shop, but the charts didn’t print.
Instead, in the middle of a blank frame where each chart should be, this message appeared: “Quicktime and a TIFF (Uncompresssed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.”
The staff suggested I convert it to .pdf but when I did that the charts printed, but all the photos were too dark.
SOLUTION:
I created a family chart in Reunion, then: Select All – Copy – As Chart
Then I opened up Photoshop and selected ‘create a new file’.
Pasted the copied chart into Photoshop.
Saved it as a Photoshop PDF, selecting: High Quality Print; General = Unticked all options starting with Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities; Compression = JPEG and Image Quality Maximum; Output = no colour conversion, include Destination Profile.
There may be other, more elegant solutions, but this one works. The charts print well and the photos are not too dark.
I then combined them in a Word document, with text I wrote about their lives, and printed some pages at OfficeWorks to see how they turned out. On some pages I used black and white family trees and others had colour.
The photos printed very well but all the family tree pages were blank. The staff said it was a Macintosh computer incompatibility problem.
Update: I've worked out a solution:
PROBLEM:
Using a Macintosh computer and copying and pasting scanned photos and Reunion family tree charts into a MS Word document created good colour copies of the photos at the local OfficeWorks shop, but the charts didn’t print.
Instead, in the middle of a blank frame where each chart should be, this message appeared: “Quicktime and a TIFF (Uncompresssed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.”
The staff suggested I convert it to .pdf but when I did that the charts printed, but all the photos were too dark.
SOLUTION:
I created a family chart in Reunion, then: Select All – Copy – As Chart
Then I opened up Photoshop and selected ‘create a new file’.
Pasted the copied chart into Photoshop.
Saved it as a Photoshop PDF, selecting: High Quality Print; General = Unticked all options starting with Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities; Compression = JPEG and Image Quality Maximum; Output = no colour conversion, include Destination Profile.
There may be other, more elegant solutions, but this one works. The charts print well and the photos are not too dark.