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How to share information with people who don't have Reunion.
Reunion family files can only be opened in Reunion. Thus, if you give your family file to somebody who does not own Reunion, he won't be able to use it. However, there are several ways you can share your information with others...
- You can create a multimedia slideshow containing pictures linked to everybody, or just pictures linked to marked people. You can save a standalone movie file of the slideshow and send the movie file to others. You can upload it to your web site, you can even use iDVD to burn a DVD with the movie.
- All reports can be shared. A report created in Rich Text Format (".rtf") can be opened in any standard word processor.
- You can share a chart by saving it as a graphic file (i.e., "JPEG," "TIFF," or "PNG"). To do this, create the chart and choose in the Reunion menu bar.
- OS X has the ability to save any report or chart as a PDF file. When the report or chart window is open, choose and then choose from the button.
- All of the above output (reports, tree charts, RTF, PDF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, files, etc.) can be emailed to another person or burned to a CD-R that other people (Mac or Windows users) can open.
- Most reports can be output for the web and uploaded to your web site or .Mac/iDisk. For example, a "Web Family Cards" project (). Web Family Cards are a series of linked HTML pages which are similar to Reunion's family card layout. You can then share this report by uploading it to your personal web space, or you can just burn the report folder onto a CD and send it to a family member. The pages are viewable in any standard web browser on any platform. Examples of reports on the web are listed here.
- If you want to share your raw data, you can export a GEDCOM file (). The GEDCOM file can then be imported into another genealogy program.