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Year planner (printed)?
« on: July 09, 2015, 06:01:03 PM »
I have been wasting my time scouring the net for either a tutorial for my existing software, or a software generator for large size (A1 most probably) wall planners. For the life of me I just cannot find anything! There are plenty of templates for Excel and InDesign etc. but none are truly printable for the size I want and/or don't offer the horizontal month layout that I'd prefer.

Does anyone know how to go about this or know of a magic bullet bit of software that do the job (Mac or PC)?

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Re: Year planner (printed)?
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2015, 08:56:30 PM »
year planner do you mean this

what software is it? I think it would be easy to make it in adobe illustrator.


maybe make into image ? 

i used this site http://www.calendarlabs.com/view/yearly-blank-calendar/501 (this site will also let you make your own yearly calendar http://www.calendarlabs.com/calendars/free-custom-calendar.php)  download pdf and opened it in adobeillustrator and then opened new document in a1 size then dragged over calender to new document and resized to fit.

this website will slice the image up and then you can print it out. 

http://www.blockposters.com/

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Re: Year planner (printed)?
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2015, 01:44:12 AM »
Yes that's it.

I could make it manually but it would be such a chore to work out all the holidays for the U.K etc.  I saw that calendarlabs site but the resolution of their templates were low I believe - difficult to scale to A1.

There is a plugin for InDesign called Calendar Wizard which is really good, but it doesn't have the U.K hols file and it doesn't to the horizontal months, It generates the calendar like the image you posted.

Really appreciate you help, mish.
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Re: Year planner (printed)?
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2015, 02:14:13 PM »
I found this ... it says its free.

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-image-english-planner-calendar-horizontal-months-white-background-image36364046   

you could probably make a file of text of the UK holidays and indesign input the data. I think I came across a tutorial for it.
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Re: Year planner (printed)?
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2015, 04:19:43 PM »
Quote from: mishca09 on July 10, 2015, 02:14:13 PM
I found this ... it says its free.

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-image-english-planner-calendar-horizontal-months-white-background-image36364046   

you could probably make a file of text of the UK holidays and indesign input the data. I think I came across a tutorial for it.

Looking closer at that site it actually looks extraordinarily expensive.  It's a shame as that was exactly what I wanted, to a T.

I'll study it a little closer as even a small version would allow me to covert it to a usable file I could build on.

Thanks again, mish.
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Re: Year planner (printed)?
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2015, 04:51:01 PM »
I have just run the calendarlabs pdfs through Illustrator and they are now fully editable. This should allow me to modify them to my heart's desire.

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Re: Year planner (printed)?
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2015, 05:22:29 PM »
awesome ! :)
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