OSP - OFB Service Programs

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Will also handle ged files according to GEDCOM 7 specification

To simplify and support the usage of the OFB corresponding "OFB Service Programs" were developed. These are:

User Guides for these programs are available at the Download area.

All the programs listed above (except Start Center) can be called up with command line options and can therefore be used in scripts.

 

System Requirements, Installation & Update

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This program is part of the OFB Program package and will be installed by the "ofb-setup.exe" including all other programs of the package. This file is available at the Download area. All details of system requirements, installation and update are listed at the appropriate menu item of "Our Family Book".
 

Licensing & Copyrights

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Because the programs are part of the OFB Program package, the same copyright and license conditions are valid as defined for the OFB in the OFB User Guide. A license for the these OFB Service Programs is not required, they haven't to be activated.



OFB Start Center

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Startzentrum

Functionality

The OFB Start Center (OFB-Start.exe) allows from a central point the start of all OFB programs and also the Gedcom service programs, if the OFB license includes these programs. Also from here the license can be activated, an automated update of the program package started, the User Guides downloaded and moved to the correct folder, the languages defined and the OFB Program package installed to an USB stick. In case of installed "GSP Special programs" or "GSP/OPF Utility programs", these also can be started.

See the Service Program user guide 1 for further details.



OFB Color/Font Management

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MainScreen

Functionality

The program (OFB-ColorFont.exe) is used to create and manage color and font definitions and the related files (ocf-files) for a screen output of the OFB lists. The printer output will always be in black and white.

By a color dialog screen the various colors can be defined easily and a font dialog allows the definition of font names, size and style. In addition the color of the genealogy symbols may be defined. See the user guide 1 for further details.



OFB Gedcom Profile Management

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MainScreen

Functionality

The program (OFB-GedcomProfil.exe) is used to create and manage the different Gedcom profiles and the related profile files (ogp-files) of the OFB. These Profile files are storing the rules for the transition of the genealogical data of the ged-files to the OFB. During importing of the ged-file by the OFB the data will be interpreted and transferred accordingly. Without such profile files the OFB can't process the genealogy data. See the user guide 2 for further details.

The Gedcom subject is a complex item. Therefore a base knowledge to a certain extent is required to use the program.



OFB SplitList - Split of large OFB Index lists in output folder "print"

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SourPers

Funktionality

If output is created in the OFB program with the option "Optimize for Print/Word", index lists larger than 2.5 .. 3 MB may be created, since these are not split by the OFB. These can possibly only be modified very time-consuming in Word.

This program allows you to split large index lists into several parts.

A log file is created during processing, which can be opened with any text editor.

For a more detailed description see the user guide.



Gedcom Specification

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The OFB is processing the data according the agreements of the German GEDCOM-L group based on the GEDCOM Specification 5.5.1 and GEDCOM 7.x.

A detailed description of the Gedcom topic and of the Gedcom tags managed by the OFB is available at the OFB Service Program User guide - part 2. This and the above noted specifications are available at Documents.

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