[LUG] Generating and printing large charts

[George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx>]

For family history I create descendency charts using a Windows programme 
called Micrografx Flow Charter which works very well. But it is windows, 
runs under wine, dates from about 1998, no longer exists, has a 
proprietary file format (.flo) and has limited file format export 
options.  There are various apps that would do at a pinch, Inkskape, 
LibreOffice Draw, Dia, although they are not as easy to use as a flow 
charter, but the stopper is the printing. In Micrografx the chart is 
formatted as, say, an A3 landscape sheet made of 2 A4 portrait sheets 
side by side. The chart is drawn across the 2 A4 sheets and prints out 
as 2 A4 sheets which can be then taped together to give an A3 chart. 
Simples. Doing this you can print out a chart as big as you like, say 
A0, made up of A4 tiles.

I cannot find a way to do this in any Linux app that I've come across.  
Has anybody else come across one?

George

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