Everything you see in GED-VIEW can be taken out of it, and everything is generated in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server to be rendered. Exporting is part of Pro; the Exports page, where every file you made is kept, is free.

Formats

  • PDF. Lists and charts formatted for paper. List exports are real text, not screenshots, so they are searchable and a very large file exports without running the browser out of memory. On the Events page there are two densities: Comfortable (larger text, fewer rows per page) and Compact. Before a large PDF starts, GED-VIEW estimates the page count and asks if it is going to be huge.
  • PNG. The tree, the charts, and the map as an image.
  • Excel and CSV. Tables (people, families, events, sources) for a spreadsheet.
  • ICS calendar files. Birthdays and anniversaries, importable into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Four separate files: birthdays of living people, birthdays of deceased people, death anniversaries, and everything else (marriages, burials, custom events and the yearly ones), so you can subscribe to exactly the set you want.
  • One person's sources. On the Sources page, once a citation of theirs is selected: every fact with its citations, page references, quality ratings and transcribed text, as a PDF. The "show my work" document.
  • The tree itself, as a file. Every tool under Tools ends with Download: a GEDCOM without a branch, one branch on its own, a merged file, a privatized, repaired, standardized or anonymized copy. Convert writes the open file as GEDCOM 5.5.1 or 7, plain or for a particular program, as a GEDZIP or zip with the media packed in, or as GEDCOM X, Gramps XML or Gramps CSV; the conversion guide explains the choices. Privatize living people, Repair file and Anonymize are free; the other tools are part of Pro. The open file is never modified; every result is a new file.

Filters carry through

An export contains what is on screen. Filter the Events page to one branch's deaths in one county, and that is what goes on paper.

File names

Exports are named after the report, the row count, and the date.

Recent exports are kept

Every export is kept in your browser for 14 days on the Exports page, so you can re-download it instantly. After that, just generate the export again.

Next

Open Events, set the filters, and export a PDF. Then try the ICS export from Calendar and add it to your phone.