When to use JPG or PDF format with media.

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I use both the JPG and PDF format.  JPGs I use for my pictures but for other documents like scanning birth records I use PDF format.  I know how to attached them but it appears from what I'm reading in the help section under media that when publishing a book or scrapbook that PDF documents are not input into these features.  Am I incorrect?  I've tried everything I can think of but none of my PDF files show when I publish a book.  I have this feeling what I read in the help file is correct i.e., PDF files will not show up when using the publish book feature, descendant charts, ancestor charts, scrapbooks, etc.

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  1. Monique RileyMay 18, 2015 at 3:20 PM

    Interested in the answer as well, Yvonne Tallini . Hopefully someone with experience on this topic will be able to shed some light on it (if there is a known work around). I have many PDF files attached to individuals.

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  2. michelle kaplanMay 18, 2015 at 8:55 PM

    Yes, I'll be following this one closely too because I have a few thousand PDF files.

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  3. JL BeekenMay 19, 2015 at 9:52 PM

    of course, the way around that would be to not scan documents as PDFs. I used to have images in PDFs and I took them all out so I can see them more easily.

    I haven't used the book publishing option but will it accept charts in text or rich text format instead?

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  4. Yvonne TalliniMay 20, 2015 at 5:24 AM

    I have thought about converting my PDFs to JPEGs but the time to do that to hundreds of documents just isn't where I want to spend my  time.  I am hoping that in an upgrade that Legacy will have a solution to this problem.  I do not know about text or rich text format.  I'll have to play around with that.

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  5. Emily MooreMay 20, 2015 at 6:37 AM

    I seem to recall that the pdf files need a separate proprietary viewer from Adobe while jpg files do not.

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  6. Emily MooreMay 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM

    I think PDF files have to be linked as documents. There may be a way to bulk convert PDF to jpg, but you would still have to link them individually.

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  7. Yvonne TalliniMay 25, 2015 at 9:05 AM

    PDFs have to be linked as documents. I'm going to contact Legacy either this week or next week and ask them.  From what I was told with FTM you can publish books with PDFs without any problems

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  8. Leslie RigsbyDecember 11, 2015 at 8:51 AM

    I just learned that you can convert pdf files to jpeg files. Just Google how to do that. It's a bit of a hassle up front, but at least I can see everything the same way.

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