The GEDCOM import was quite fast, and in my case importing 1800 records took only few moments. When getting started, GRAMPS makes you create a new family tree, then load the new tree (which oddly takes more than a few seconds) and then lets you import a GEDCOM. That said, I’m not sure if some of the user-interface issues are due to the fact that the program originated on Linux, or are just the user-interface decisions of the developers.
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Beyond the look of an app, there are also usage norms of which Linux users, Mac users and Windows users all expect something different. This has been a complaint by other users of GRAMPS, that they should try to adapt to the user-interface ‘widgets’ of the operating systems they are targeting. For those used to standard Mac user-interface norms, GRAMPS doesn’t try to match them. Once I made the replacements in the file I wanted to load it into GRAMPS. Hopefully the efforts to improve/replace GEDCOM will in the future include a standard way to share that kind of information, and hopefully GRAMPS will add this feature as well.
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I don’t even know if GRAMPS can handle per-instance cropping of photos, but in any case it certainly doesn’t know how to import Reunion’s cropping information. This is a very nice feature, but GEDCOM doesn’t have a standard way to deal with it. For example, if you have a family photo that shows two parents and four children, you can assign that photo to all six people, and crop the photo for each person so when displayed will only show the head of the person you want. Reunion lets you re-use images with different people (or even multiple times with the same person) and for each instance of the image you can crop it how you’d like. One other thing to notice in the GEDCOM is that Reunion output not only the image location, but a line called _CROP which gives coordinates of how the image was cropped within Reunion. In the above image you can see that 935 instances of ~/ were replaced, including in the image location shown in the GEDCOM. GEDCOM excerpt showing absolute path to an image file (after Replace All) In any event, on the Mac your home directory is located at /Users/USERNAME/ or in my case /Users/philip/ and as you can see in the Find box, I replace all instances of ~/ with /Users/philip/. This is a UNIX shortcut, which makes it is surprising that GRAMPS doesn’t know how to deal with it. In the above image (click to enlarge) you can see the relative path on the line that starts with FILE starts with ~/ which is supposed to point to my home directory. GEDCOM excerpt showing relative path to an image file Knowing from previous attempts that GRAMPS would not recognize the relative paths used int the image file locations, I opened the GEDCOM first in a text editor and did a find-and-replace on the relative path: The first thing I did was export a GEDCOM file from Reunion to load into GRAMPS. It’s possible I had moved the application to my second monitor back in January and this version accessed some preference file from the old version, but in any case I’ve never seen an app boot directly to my second monitor.Įxporting and Correcting a GEDCOM from Reunion Oddly the program loaded on my second monitor, which is very unusual. For one, everything installed easily and I didn’t see any error messages when loading the program. This time, things went a lot smoother than my first attempt.
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As I mentioned back in January, I really like the idea of a free open-source cross-platform genealogy program, and I’m rooting for GRAMPS to be competitive with other genealogy programs out on the market. Recently version 3.3.0 was released, and I decided to give it a spin once again. Indeed there was at least one major issue which I submitted as a bug to the developers, but I haven’t had time since then to fully test it again.
At the time, at version 3.2.5, it was not yet stable enough on the Mac to use. I was looking at it specifically for use on the Mac, as that’s the platform I use. GRAMPS started on Linux, but is now available for Windows and Mac. Back in January I took a look at the free genealogy program GRAMPS.
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