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7. What version of GNOME do I need?
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8. Is GRAMPS compatible with other genealogical software?
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8. Is GRAMPS compatible with other genealogical software (GenApps)?
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9. Can GRAMPS read files created by GenApp X?
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13. Is GRAMPS compatible with the Internet?
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14. What standards does GRAMPS support?
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14. Can I create custom reports/filters/whatever?
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15. What is the maximum database size (bytes) GRAMPS can handle?
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15. What standards does GRAMPS support?
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16. How many people can GRAMPS database handle?
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16. What is the maximum database size (bytes) GRAMPS can handle?
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17. My database is really big.
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17. How many people can GRAMPS database handle?
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18. Why is GRAMPS running so slowly?
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19. My database is really big.
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Is there a way around loading all the data into memory?
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18. Can I create custom reports/filters/whatever?
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19. Why is GRAMPS running so slowly?
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20. Why are non-latin characters displayed as garbage in PDF/PS reports?
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21. Why can I not add/remove/edit columns to the lists in People View
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and Family View?
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22. I found a bug and I want it fixed right now! What do I do?
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*** Questions and answers ***
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@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ to gramps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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1. What is GRAMPS?
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GRAMPS is the Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Program System.
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In other words, it a personal genealogy program letting you store, edit,
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In other words, it is a personal genealogy program letting you store, edit,
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and research genealogical data using the powers of your computer.
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@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ The latest versions of gramps (0.9.0 and higher) require GNOME 2.0 or higher.
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Previous versions required GNOME 1.X.
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8. Is GRAMPS compatible with other genealogical software?
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8. Is GRAMPS compatible with other genealogical software (GenApps)?
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GRAMPS makes every effort to maintain compatibility with GEDCOM, the general
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standard of recording genealogical information. We have import and export
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@ -121,9 +122,9 @@ filters that enable GRAMPS to read and write GEDCOM files.
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It is important to understand that the GEDCOM standard is poorly implemented --
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virtually every genealogical software has its own "flavor" of GEDCOM. As we
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learn about new flavor, the import/export filters can be created very quickly.
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However, finding out about the unknown flavors requires user's feedback.
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However, finding out about the unknown flavors requires user feedback.
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Please feel free to inform us about any GEDCOM flavor not supported by GRAMPS,
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and we will support it!
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and we will do our best to support it!
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9. Can GRAMPS read files created by GenApp X?
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@ -161,45 +162,12 @@ PostScript, PDF, SVG, OpenOffice and GraphViz formats.
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GRAMPS can store web addresses and direct your browser to them. It can import
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data that you download from the Internet. It can export data that you could
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send over the Internet. GRAMPS is familiar with the standard file formats
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widely used on the Internet (e.g. JPEG and GIF images, MP3, OGG, and WAV sound
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files, QuickTime, MPEG, and AVI movie files, etc). Other than that, there is
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little that a genealogical program can do with the Internet :-)
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widely used on the Internet (e.g. JPEG, PNG, and GIF images, MP3, OGG, and
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WAV sound files, QuickTime, MPEG, and AVI movie files, etc). Other than that,
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there is little that a genealogical program can do with the Internet :-)
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14. What standards does GRAMPS support?
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The nice thing about the standards is that there never is a shortage of
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them :-). GRAMPS is tested to support the following flavors of GEDCOM:
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GEDCOM5.5, Brother's Keeper, Family Origins, Familty Tree Maker, Ftree,
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GeneWeb, Legacy, Personal Ancestral File, Pro-Gen, Reunion, and
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Visual Genealogie.
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15. What is the maximum database size (bytes) GRAMPS can handle?
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GRAMPS has no hard limits on the size of a database that it can handle.
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In reality, however, there are practical limits. Currently GRAMPS loads all
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data into memory, so the limiting factor tends to be the available memory
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on the system.
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16. How many people can GRAMPS database handle?
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We have found that on a typical system, GRAMPS tends to bog down after the
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database has around 15,000 people. Again, this is dependant on how much
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memory you have.
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17. My database is really big.
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Is there a way around loading all the data into memory?
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Currently, there is no way around it. However, this is our biggest priority
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after releasing version 1.0. The real database backend will be incorporated
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in the next stable release (1.2) which will dramatically improve performance
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in both speed and memory usage.
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18. Can I create custom reports/filters/whatever?
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14. Can I create custom reports/filters/whatever?
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Yes. There are many levels of customization. One is creating or modifying
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the templates used for the reports. This gives you some control over
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@ -213,7 +181,31 @@ reports, research tools, import/export filters, etc. This assumes some
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knowledge of programming in Python.
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19. Why is GRAMPS running so slowly?
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15. What standards does GRAMPS support?
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The nice thing about the standards is that there never is a shortage of
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them :-). GRAMPS is tested to support the following flavors of GEDCOM:
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GEDCOM5.5, Brother's Keeper, Family Origins, Familty Tree Maker, Ftree,
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GeneWeb, Legacy, Personal Ancestral File, Pro-Gen, Reunion, and
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Visual Genealogie.
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16. What is the maximum database size (bytes) GRAMPS can handle?
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GRAMPS has no hard limits on the size of a database that it can handle.
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In reality, however, there are practical limits. Currently GRAMPS loads all
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data into memory, so the limiting factor tends to be the available memory
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on the system.
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17. How many people can GRAMPS database handle?
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We have found that on a typical system, GRAMPS tends to bog down after the
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database has around 15,000 people. Again, this is dependant on how much
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memory you have.
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18. Why is GRAMPS running so slowly?
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If GRAMPS seems too slow to you, it is most likely that you have a large
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database. Currently, GRAMPS loads all the database into memory, therefore
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@ -227,6 +219,15 @@ with the implementation of the real database backend, please don't hesitate
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to email us at gramps-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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19. My database is really big.
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Is there a way around loading all the data into memory?
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Currently, there is no way around it. However, this is our biggest priority
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after releasing version 1.0. The real database backend will be incorporated
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in the next stable release (1.2) which will dramatically improve performance
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in both speed and memory usage.
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20. Why are non-latin characters displayed as garbage in PDF/PS reports?
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This is a known problem -- PS (and PDF) have builtin fonts which pretty much
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@ -235,7 +236,8 @@ but then it would have to be embedded in the file. This is problematic since
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every system has different idea about fonts and their setup.
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This should be resolved as we move to gnome-print. In the meantime, a useable
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workaround is to generate reports in OOo format and the export to PDF from OOo.
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workaround is to generate reports in OpenOffice.org format and then export
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to PDF from the OpenOffice.org application.
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21. Why can I not add/remove/edit columns to the lists in People View
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@ -246,6 +248,35 @@ see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125172 for the details.
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Once the patch is committed and incorporated into pygtk, we will add the
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ability to add/remove/edit sortable columns.
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22. I found a bug and I want it fixed right now! What do I do?
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The best thing you can do is to fix the bug and send the patch to
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gramps-devel@lists.sf.net :-)
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The next best thing would be to submit a good bug report. This can be done in
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one of the two ways: (1) send your report to gramps-bugs@lists.sf.net
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or (2) file your report with the bug tracker system at
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http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=25770&atid=385137 (this function is also
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available by selecting "Help->Report a bug" from gramps main menu).
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A good bug report would include:
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(1) Version of gramps you were using when you encountered the bug
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(available through Help->About menu item)
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(2) Language under which gramps was run
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(available by executing "echo $LANG" in your terminal)
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(3) Symptomps indicating that this is indeed a bug
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(4) Any Traceback messages, error messages, warnings, etc, that showed up
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in your terminal or a in separate traceback window
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Most problems can be fixed quickly provided there is enough information.
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To ensure this, please follow up on your bug reports. In particular, if you
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file bug report with sf.net bug tracker, PLEASE log into sf.net before filing
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(register your free account if you don't have one). Then we will have a way
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of contacting you should we need more information. If you choose to file your
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report anonymously, at least check every so often whether your report page
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has something new posted, as it probably would.
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*** End of GRAMPS Frequently Asked Questions ***
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