What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family calendar?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , Frank Slootweg
writes:
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And indeed, Dutch isn't a lanuguage, it's a throat disease.

Oops! That, "lanuguage" *was* a typo. Anyway, Dutch isn't a lanuguage
either! :-)

LOL! Stlll chuckling. Saved (with attribution) to my quotes file.

You're welcome. I've been collecting some of yours in my quotes file.

And, as they say:

"If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much!"

A friend at university lived in NL (though I think he was British), and
insisted on pronouncing anything Dutch with full phlegm - placenames,
and the Grolsh (beer) he liked.

I live in 's-Gravenhage [1]. Get your tongue around *that* one!

[1] Also called Den Haag, which is much easier, and, to please You Guys,
The Hague.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
...
And indeed, Dutch isn't a lanuguage, it's a throat disease.

LOL! Stlll chuckling. Saved (with attribution) to my quotes file.
A friend at university lived in NL (though I think he was British), and
insisted on pronouncing anything Dutch with full phlegm - placenames, and
the Grolsh (beer) he liked.

Not for nothing are the Dutch-speaking people of Belgium called Phlegmish
;-)

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 22:31:35 -0000 (UTC), "Arlen G. Holder"
wrote:

The problem with the Excel spreadsheet is that you have to LOOK at it in
order to see which birthdays and anniversaries are coming up.

What would be PERFECT is an Excel spreadsheet that has a button that
outputs to a printable calendar file format!

There are plenty:
https://www.calendarlabs.com/excel-calendar/
2019 Monthly & Yearly Excel Calendar Templates

In message , Frank Slootweg
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , Frank Slootweg
writes:
[]
And indeed, Dutch isn't a lanuguage, it's a throat disease.

Oops! That, "lanuguage" *was* a typo. Anyway, Dutch isn't a lanuguage
either! :-)

I didn't spot that (so it's in my quotes file with the error!).

LOL! Stlll chuckling. Saved (with attribution) to my quotes file.

You're welcome. I've been collecting some of yours in my quotes file.

Quite happy to share the whole file if I have an email to send it to.
It's only about 63K - I edit it with an ancient text editor that has a
limit (just _under_ 64K), meaning I have to delete to add, which keeps
it fresh.
[]
I live in 's-Gravenhage [1]. Get your tongue around *that* one!

Stand clear!
[]
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On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 04:33:37 -0400, Paul wrote:

I compiled it (pcal-4.11.0.tgz) from source, in MinGW.
No, the makefile is not set up for that.

I did a test run afterwards. ( pcal.exe 260,884 bytes )

pcal -P tabloid -o calendar.ps

Here is the resulting output. A vanilla calendar.

https://i.postimg.cc/4yNG3MpC/calendar.gif

Click the "download original", to get the full (300DPI) resolution.

The output is postscript but I rasterized it so
people could see a sample, without actually compiling
the damn thing.

pcal development might have started in 1991.
Last edits are 2007.
Today is 2019.
That's 16 years development, 12 years decay.

*******

In the Makefile, change this chunk...

ifeq ($(OS),DJGPP) # DOS+DJGPP
OS_NAME = "DOS+DJGPP"
D_BUILD_ENV = -DBUILD_ENV_DJGPP
PCAL = pcal.exe
CC = gcc
PACK = :
else # Unix
OS_NAME = "Unix"
D_BUILD_ENV = -DBUILD_ENV_UNIX
PCAL = pcal
CC = /usr/bin/gcc
PACK = compress
# PACK = pack
# PACK = gzip
endif

to a simpler:

OS_NAME = "DOS+DJGPP"
D_BUILD_ENV = -DBUILD_ENV_DJGPP
PCAL = pcal.exe
CC = gcc
PACK = :

I did "BUILD_ENV_DJGPP=0" in msys, but that wasn't
seemingly getting passed, so it was quicker to just
hack it out and force the environment variables so
it could find the gcc in MinGW.

In writefil.c I changed this:

#include pwd.h

to this:

/* include pwd.h */

because MinGW is not POSIX, there is no getpwuid and
friends, and the function in question is vanity bull****
(has nothing to do with printing a calendar).

Now, further down in writefil.c, *remove* this section. Delete it.

/* Generate "For" and "Routing" comments if user name is known... */

#if defined (BUILD_ENV_UNIX) || defined (BUILD_ENV_DJGPP)
if ((pw = getpwuid(getuid())) != NULL && strcmp(pw-pw_name, "nobody" /* anonymous account */) != 0) {
printf("%%%%For: %s\n", pw-pw_name);
#ifdef BUILD_ENV_UNIX
/* The 'pw-pw_gecos' element ('real' user name) is not available in
MS-DOS or DOS+DJGPP build environments... */
strcpy(tmp, pw-pw_gecos);
if ((p = strchr(tmp, ',')) != NULL) *p = '\0';
printf("%%%%Routing: %s\n", tmp);
#endif
}
#endif

That should be enough to get a "make" to work in MinGW (32 bit version).
The pcal.exe is in the exec folder (you have to watch the make output
to figure out where it went :-/ )

The program over the years, has become a bit more portable, so
at least a vanilla calendar can be output. I'm not going to
debug

make install

as I don't know if there is a point to bothering with that.

If you look at the "doc" folder, the parameters you can pass
to the stupid thing are endless. I hope someone has worked
examples somewhere, because it would take me all week to
figure out what to do :-/

Paul
Copy "calendar_us.txt" as "calendar" and place
in the same directory as "pcal.exe".

The program looks for ".calendar", which would be a workable
choice on Linux, and it also looks for "calendar",
which is the working choice on a Windows system.

Then try:

pcal.exe -P tabloid -n Helvetica-Narrow/18 -o calendar.ps

and the calendar will then show "Independence Day" as
July 4th.

The program was probably invented in B&W printer era,
as the PostScript "colors" it refers to, have simple numeric values.
For example "0.8/0.9" are likely two grayscale values.

I don't see any way to add color portraits of puppies
or kittens, so you're on your own there (use your colored
pencils).

Someone may have compiled this for Cygwin, but that doesn't
necessarily mean it was an official package of Cygwin
and can be fetched with the Cygwin package methods. It's
probably less troublesome in Cygwin to do it. You would
then need a minimum of three files, the pcal.exe plus
the two DLLs that Cygwin uses for runtime support.

Paul

Hi Paul,

This note is short as it goes to all the original groups - not just the
poorly archived Win10 ng where most of the suggestions are being explored.

Thanks for being one of a half dozen who (a) understood the question, and,
(b) who offered a purposefully helpful cross-platform solution of modifying
the Makefile in order to successfully compile the ancient Pcal source code
(1991 to 2007) on a current desktop OS.

Here is the resulting output. A vanilla calendar.
https://i.postimg.cc/4yNG3MpC/calendar.gif

Others who understood the question well enough to share purposefully
helpful technical insight were Keith Nuttle (TB/Lightning), RatchetJaw
(LibreOffice calendar creator), Apd (pcal 16-bit issues), G Ross (Calendar
Creator), owl (pcval) Michael Logies & Zaidy036 (Excel calendar creator &
Birthday Alarm calendar creation, & pyotr filipivich (Open Office Calc)).

Just some of the helpful proposed solutions currently under test, are
https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-do-i-create-a-calendar-in-openoffice
https://extensions.libreoffice.org/templates/calendar-creator
https://www.calendarlabs.com/excel-calendar/
http://pcal.sourceforge.net/
https://www.birthdayalarm.com/
https://www.calendar-12.com/printable_calendar/2019
https://filehippo.com/download_ams-photo-calendar-creator/
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/calendar/
https://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
https://print-a-calendar.com/july-2019
https://www.vertex42.com/calendars/printable-calendars.html
https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/calendar-template
etc.

The solution will be of general use to almost everyone, where this note is
simply to say I will explore all valid suggested solutions & report back in
the Win10 group the cross platform successful results after testing.

--
(1) I've chosen to ignore the trolls, choosing, instead, to follow Mike
Easter's advice to provide a cross-platform solution to the Win10 ng.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:00:17 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:

In article , Arlen G. Holder
wrote:
*What method do YOU use to create your printable personal family
calendar?* 1. Do you have a program that creates a printable calendar?
(this is best) 2. Do you have a Microsoft Office calendar template? (this
would be nice) 3. Do you modify an existing calendar file? (this may work
if it's editable)

I'm sorry.

This has *WHAT* to do with linux? (The only group I read to which this
was posted)

Nothing, it's another trolling ****wit.

Newsgroups:
alt.comp.freeware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.gener al,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux

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On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:50:17 +0100, William Poaster wrote:

another trolling ****wit.

killed

*plonk*

In message , William Poaster
writes:
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:00:17 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:
[]
This has *WHAT* to do with linux? (The only group I read to which this
was posted)

Nothing, it's another trolling ****wit.

Newsgroups:
alt.comp.freeware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.gene ral,alt.windows7.genera
l,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux

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