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Reunion® ver.9.x (Macintosh-only). Reunion® ver.9.x for Macintosh® Just $191.00 (incl. GST and registered Australia Post postage and handling to anywhere in Australia). THIS is the latest variant of the most popular Mac®-friendly genealogy programs on the Australian market today! Click here to visit the Leister Production's website to learn all about what makes Reunion® ver.9.x the must-have software for enhancing your enjoyment of "doing your family tree". Click here to download a working demonstration version of Reunion® ver.9.x (it will take only 50 individuals of your initial family file). Leister also gives concise answers to some of the typical questions about Reunion® here. SO JUST WHY IS REUNION® SO GOOD? From the moment you start, you can tell Reunion® was designed for a Graphical User Interface. You can feel it in the ease of entering and editing your family information. The ease of clicking to navigate through generations of your ancestors. The speed of searching and finding. The attention to detail in documents. In short, Reunion® works the way good computer software ought to work. Easy to put in what you want - easy to get out what you want. Reunion® has the power to create large, graphic descendant and pedigree charts - with complete control over boxes, lines, fonts, even colour. Reunion® also creates reports, such as family group records, personal and family histories, event calendars, and even questionnaires for gathering more information. If you believe a picture paints a thousand words, you'll be happy to learn how easily Reunion® links information and images. Even high-resolution colour pictures. If you have a favourite page layout, word processing, drawing, or spreadsheet program, you'll appreciate how easily Reunion® shares information with other software applications. Quite simply, Reunion® is the easiest, most elegant way to organise your genealogy information and create charts, reports and documents worthy of publication. Click here to read what a reviewer from leading genealogy publication, FamilyTree Magazine, recently wrote about this current iteration of Reunion®. How about MacWorld's opinion of ver.9.x? Click here to what its reviewer wrote.   Just some of the features of ver.9.x:- Reunion® ver.9.x is a Universal Binary application with full, native support for Intel® and PPC Macintosh® computers. Pod cards for your iPod® - a new way to carry data with you. Treetops - shows a quick list of the earliest ancestors for any person. Last Names list - show all unique last names (surnames) in your family file. Spell checking. As you enter data, Reunion® can automatically check your spelling as you type. When you mistype or misspell a word, it's underlined in red so you can quickly spot errors and correct them. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) web styles offer elegant design, flexibility, and precise control of reports destined for the web. Drag and drop to add people from the Index to the family card. If you're about to add a child, parent, or spouse to somebody, and you know that the person is already entered in the family file somewhere, just open the index and drag the person from the index over to the correct spot on the family card. Drag and drop to add sources from the Source List to events, facts, notes, and names. Keep the Source List open as you're adding data and when you need to cite a source, just drag and drop it into the field. Unicode support allows for multi-lingual text using different languages. Ability to find citation detail. For example, you can find everybody linked to page 106 of a particular book. Import and export of multimedia links in GEDCOM® files. Index and List enhancements... Data (names, dates, places, etc.) can be edited directly in lists. If you notice a spelling error or inconsistency while perusing the Index or any other list, just make the correction directly in the list. No need to dig up the record. Lists (such as the Index, Source List, Found List, etc.) can stay open while you work in your family file. A search box is used to find people and filter the Index and Found lists. Drag columns to change the order of columns in a list. Click column titles to sort by column. Manual sorting option, using any combination of three fields or attributes. Name and save sorts. Entries in lists are colour-coded by sex. Family card enhancements... Family card size is limited only by the size of your screen. Flags can be checked/unchecked directly on the family card. Note fields in the family card view are scrollable. Find people using a search box on the family card. Option to display parents and children in a list, with resizeable, draggable, and optional fields. Brushed metal family card. Tool tips show information about people buttons, including birth/death date and place, and ID#. Resizeable section for child buttons/list. Option to colourise buttons by sex. Control-click (or right-click) people on the family card (parents, husb/wife, children) for a contextual popup menu showing siblings, spouses, children, treetops, etc. New "view" options - smart event and fact lists, other children, birth-death, and date feasibility. Sibling popup menus have been enhanced to show: direct lines, half-siblings, icons to indicate sex, and whether or not a sibling has children. 3D drop shadows on child, husband/wife, and parent buttons on family card. Control-click (or right-click) children (in a list, or as buttons) to change child status. Child status colour is now applied to shadows, making it more conspicuous. New preferences to set the colour of children with children, children without children, parents with parents, and parents without parents. The vertical dividing line between field titles and data can be repositioned by dragging. Multimedia... Thumbnail view of multimedia items, ala iPhoto®. Multimedia files can be linked to source records. Support for more file formats: PDF, MS Word® documents, RTF, Text Support for more audio file formats: .AAC, .AU Support for .BMP images. Support for video formats: .MOV, .MP4, and .AVI. Multimedia files can be grouped into albums. Comments from iPhoto® are imported into Reunion®. Rotate items in 90-degree increments. New multimedia sorting options. Option to designate items as "sensitive". Option to treat an image file as if it were a document. Drag and drop pictures from a multimedia window to another person on another family card. Slideshows... Create slideshows for people, families, marked people, or all people. Slideshows can be saved, previewed, etc. Choose transitions, music, time for each slide, image size, caption content, etc. Toolbar on the family card... Customisable toolbar. Option to show as small or large icons. Option to show as "text only", "icons only" or "icons and text". New, additional toolbar icons. OS X® native... Cocoa-based - Reunion® ver.9.x is only available for Mac OS X®. It has been completely rewritten for Mac OS X® using Cocoa®, Apple's® object-oriented application environment designed specifically for developing Mac OS X®-only native applications with a state-of-the-art Aqua® user interface. More resizeable windows and live window resizing. OS X®-standard file locations. Use of more attractive windows, "sheets" and icons. Tool tips show information about buttons. Better support for third-party utilities. Option to use Apple's® Colour Picker to choose 24-bit colours. Standard Mac OS X® text navigation in text fields. Charts... Soft shadows can be applied to boxes, bars, captions, and pictures. Find Anything In Boxes - new ways to search for boxes and select found boxes. Ability to remove frames of pictures inside boxes. Ability to turn on/off page break lines and grid lines . Ability to compact charts and optimise for printing, by resampling hi-res pictures. Many additions to the popup menu that appears when you Control-click (or right-click) a chart box (such as: Align Picture in Box, Size Picture in Box, Frame Picture in Box, Save Default Box Attributes) Support for transparency in images. When charts or chart objects are copied to the clipboard, PDF transparency is supported. Graphic charts exported as .PNG or .PDF have transparency. Ability to add shadows to shapes. New menu item to mark people in all selected boxes on a chart. Max button in the Orientation window - lets you maximise the chart window size while making changes to the orientation. New Tags feature for including variables in text objects and frame titles. Addition of border depth popup menu for timeline bars. In Colours window (for chart boxes and timeline bars), you can drag/drop generations to change order. In Colours window (for chart boxes and timeline bars), ability to exclude text from changes. New shortcut to redraw a chart using the previous settings in the Orientation window; Option-Command-R. Text objects appear on-screen at all zoom settings. Deleting frames is easier: click to select the frame and press the Delete key. Chart dimensions are shown in metrics when appropriate. Ability to mark people whose information cites any particular source. Reminders - an enhanced startup option to let you know, in advance, of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries, etc. New search box for searching source records. Mighty mouse is supported (with horizontal and vertical scrolling) Speed Names limit increased to 2,000. Source List window can be resized vertically and horizontally, letting you see more of each source. Source list shows more characters per source, making it easier to identify and distinguish sources. Source citations list in the Edit Person window is resizable. You can see more sources, at a glance. New Field Usage window, for showing which fields are used and how frequently they're used. New Folder Preferences for specifying default locations for particular types of files as you create, save, open, import, and export files. Words in note fields can be Control-clicked to show a contextual popup menu of features (like looking up the word in the dictionary, Google®, or Spotlight®; or creating a clickable link of a web address). Ages enhancements - added a column for places and support for perspective events appearing in the list. Bookmarks menu enhancements - menu items include birth-death dates, includes colour to indicate people with children, includes icon to indicate sex. Quickbar enhancements - icons indicate sex, tool tips show more information about a person or family in the quickbar, Control-click to show menu of spouses and children for a person/family, children with children are indicated by colour. Overview window enhancements - icons appear in the popup menus to indicate the sex of a person's children, tool tips show more information about a person, control clicking a person shows spouses and children. Statistics enhancements - added unique last names, percentages, and a Find button to list people matching a highlighted statistic. Startup preferences include the ability to go to the last card you were viewing. File -> Open Recent submenu. Change Case window includes the option to affect first and middle names. When adding events to a person, you can make the selected event a default event (for all new people) You can drag and drop people into the Find Relationship window, which can stay open all the time. OS X® Click-thru is disabled in most situations (to avoid accidentally clicking buttons in Reunion® when you're using other applications). Manual... Search box in the tool bar, for easy searching. Shift-Command-click shortcut opens linked page in a new window behind the current window Command-click shortcut opens linked page in a new window Holding down the mouse on the Back/Forward buttons shows you a list of the recent manual pages you've visited. Logs - new Sort Logs button. Edit Family/Children window - you can include columns for birth and death place in the list, making it easier to do batch entry of children. Merge People window is modeless - handy for comparing records listed in the Merge People window. Support for International Standard ISO-8601 date format: yyyy-mm-dd Reports can be saved in .rtfd format (rtf with images). GEDCOM® import/export support for the Unique Identifier Number (UID) GEDCOM® import/export support for Unicode and UTF-8 character sets. GEDCOM® import option to not strip out extra commas from place names. LDS® event statuses can be included in lists and can be searched. Add Source popup menu shows more sources and more characters per source, making it easier to identify and distinguish sources. Moving fields: Events can be moved into other events. When you open a family file, the previous ten family cards you viewed are remembered from your previous session. Relative lists can be limited to marked people only. Reunion® keeps track of and tells you the last time relationships were identified. HTML, RTF, Microsoft Word® documents may be imported into note fields (however, formatting is stripped). Tags in web output - to make the contents of the footer, creation date, and intro fields more interesting and dynamic. You can even include Google® search tools. Person sheets and family group sheets can be sorted using any custom sort criteria. Register Report enhancements... Spouses in bold. Option to include last name for children. Option to include birth and death dates for children. Option to have parenthetical ancestry in italic text. More advanced warnings and error checking when linking people. For example: when linking cousins as spouses, a message will draw your attention to that relationship. Date Feasibility testing added to Find Anything window, family card view, and list windows. Numerous new shortcuts. What you'll need to run Reunion® ver.9.x:- Mac OS X® ver.10.3.9 or newer. Mac OS®, Power Macintosh®, iMac®, eMac®, iBook®, Apple®, QuickTime®, Rosetta® and Macintosh® are all registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks on this page belong to their respective registered owners.