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This\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7358,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/11\/gramps-and-graphviz-speak-russian\/","url_meta":{"origin":8566,"position":5},"title":"Gramps and GraphViz speak Russian","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 11, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is the very great day in history! :) I've managed to convince gramps to correctly export my family tree into GraphViz format. It did preserve all the names in Unicode, so I just had to install a unicode TrueType Arial font and generate a GIF and PNG. 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