Downloading and sharing

1Choose the cover and the layout

Press PDF on the front page or the chart for the whole genealogy, or on a person's page for that person and their branch alone - the page says which, under its title. Then choose:

• Cover style: ten of them, from Vermilion, Ink, Jade and Porcelain blue to Thread-bound and Navy quarter, each shown as this genealogy's own cover. The three with + Add photo can carry a photograph of yours as their background; it is deleted once the PDF has been made. Press ⤢ on a cover to see it larger.
• Layout style: Classic sets the names vertically, right to left, a row to each generation, as the old books did; Outline runs across the page, one person to a line, indented by branch; Index is a table by generation, for looking up pages. Each comes with a sample page.

2Choose the paper, then generate it

Further down you can choose:

• Other notes: choose Print and the other notes written in people's records are set beside their names, with the courtesy names and remarks; the Outline style sets them under the line, and the Index leaves them out. They are left out unless you choose;
• Generation column design (classic style) and Generation column (classic style): how the generation column in the margin of the Classic layout is drawn, and which side it goes on;
• Paper: eight sizes - A4, B5, 16K (large), 16K (standard), 8K (large), 32K (pocket), A3 and Letter - and Orientation, Portrait or Landscape;
• Typeface: other typefaces for the names and for the generation column;
• First page number of the chart: for a genealogy bound into another book, or a volume that continues an earlier one. The chart's first page carries that number and the pages after it follow on, and every "continued on page N" uses the new numbers.

Press Generate & download. A large genealogy takes about 10–30 seconds; keep the page open meanwhile. On a computer the download starts by itself; on a phone or tablet, press Share or save to keep it on the device or send it straight to the family. The continued-on and continued-from marks in the PDF, and its table of contents, are links.

3The lineage image

Press Lineage image on a person's page or the chart to draw that person and everyone descended from them as one tree: them at the top, their descendants spreading out below, a generation to a row. From the chart of the whole genealogy, it starts at the founder.

• Heading: set across the top of the picture. It starts as the genealogy's name and the person's; change it as you like, or empty it for no heading at all.
• How many generations: leave it empty for the whole line, or put 5 to draw the person and four generations below them.
• Format: PDF is drawn in lines, so it stays sharp however far you zoom in and its names can be searched; PNG is a picture that opens anywhere.
• Other notes: choose Print to set them beside the names; with Names only they are left out.
• Detail, Compact, Shape, Type size and the rest each say under them what they do.

Press Draw it and download; it arrives the same way as the PDF.

4Share with relatives

The front page, each person's page, the chart, the statistics, the village pages and others have Share this page at the top right. In WeChat it copies the link and shows you where WeChat's own menu is - tap ⋯ at the top right, then Send to chat or Share to Moments. In other browsers it opens the phone's or computer's share menu, or, where there is none, copies the link and says Link copied.

What you share is an address: whoever opens it sees what they themselves may see. Someone without access sees no names in the genealogy, only who may read it and how to get access. A person's page shared by someone with access still shows that person's name on the link's card in the chat. To send the PDF or the picture itself, use Share or save when you download it on a phone.