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  Re: Calendar making program for Linux? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2021-11-22 18:39 +0100
    Re: Calendar making program for Linux? pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2021-11-23 00:54 +0000

#33702 — Re: Calendar making program for Linux?

pH <wNOSP...@gmail.org> [p]:
p> make calendar pages to go with them to make a wall calendar
p> ...  choose the 12 pics, specify the year and voila?

Remind (https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529) comes with a
nifty utility called 'rem2ps', that draws a PostScript calendar
from remind's output. It could be a good starting point for
your project.

To get an idea what the output looks like, see 
https://ibb.co/GPjpq1t

Then you have to either manually paste in your pics, or (if your
postscript skill are top notch) inject the appropriate postscript
code (see rem2ps's -p option).

Since I don't want to do it manually and lack the skills to do it in
PostScript, I usually convert both the calendar pages and the pics to
PDF and then run a small script file containing a few pdftk commands
to scale and merge pages as needed.


To get a 1-month calendar:
$ remind -p1 /dev/null  | rem2ps -l -i -e -m Letter > mycalendar.ps

To get a 12-month calendar:
$ remind -p12 /dev/null | rem2ps -l -i -e -m Letter > mycalendar.ps


If you have a reminders file, replace "/dev/null" with its path and
all your important dates will also be marked on the printed calendar.

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On 2021-11-22, Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
> pH <wNOSP...@gmail.org> [p]:
> p> make calendar pages to go with them to make a wall calendar
> p> ...  choose the 12 pics, specify the year and voila?
>
> Remind (https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529) comes with a
> nifty utility called 'rem2ps', that draws a PostScript calendar
> from remind's output. It could be a good starting point for
> your project.
>
> To get an idea what the output looks like, see 
> https://ibb.co/GPjpq1t

I like the looks of that calendar page.
A "re<tab><tab>" shows that I do not currently have "remind" or "rem2ps"
installed.
I don't have "Scribus", either, for that matter.

>
> Then you have to either manually paste in your pics, or (if your
> postscript skill are top notch) inject the appropriate postscript
> code (see rem2ps's -p option).
>
> Since I don't want to do it manually and lack the skills to do it in
> PostScript, I usually convert both the calendar pages and the pics to
> PDF and then run a small script file containing a few pdftk commands
> to scale and merge pages as needed.
>
>
> To get a 1-month calendar:
> $ remind -p1 /dev/null  | rem2ps -l -i -e -m Letter > mycalendar.ps
>
> To get a 12-month calendar:
> $ remind -p12 /dev/null | rem2ps -l -i -e -m Letter > mycalendar.ps
>
>
> If you have a reminders file, replace "/dev/null" with its path and
> all your important dates will also be marked on the printed calendar.
>
Wow, this looks very cool.
My Linux skills are pretty poor and it's been a long time since my 'C'
programming class...I'm one of those users who thinks he knows what he's
doing to the point where I am a danger to myself sometimes.

pH

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