About Calendar Wizard

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Calendar Wizard to make your own calendar

Calendar Wizard lets you to:

• create calendars both for one month and for one year;
• make the months alignment variable;
• choose the type of a month's representation;
• create multi-lingual calendars;
• pick and note any events on the calendar;
• create calendars using any color styles suitable for you;
• preview the calendar at any stage of creation;
• split items of days and the calendar grid lines into different layers.

List of available plug-ins: Corel Draw, MS Excel, JPEG, BMP, Adobe PDF, HTML, TXT.

Hot! How to make your own calendar? Read Helen's review with step-by-step directions and tips of making 2008 calendar or one month's calendar

Calendar Wizard is used by professional designers but the interface is such friendly that anyone can use the one for creating stylish calendar! Simply make the calendar grid, add any nice image and print your own calendar!

The limitations of unregistered version:

1. JPEG plug-in: limited resolution to 72dpi.
   The maximal resolution of JPEG-files in the registered version is 600 dpi.
2. Adobe PDF plugin: protection from editing format.
3. MS Excel plugin: disabled.
4. Corel Draw plugin: disabled.
5. "Trial" word.

See calendar examples

Reviews and awards:

Helen's calendar for 2008 year

What calendar is perfect for me? It's a calendar made by me. I decided to try Calendar Wizard software to make my own calendar in the way I want. I needed two calendars - one of them for the next year, big and good-looking, another one - the simplest calendar for the next month. And this is my impressions of first attempts of making a calendar with Calendar Wizard 2.3.

Having entered the program, I saw dialog window, which looks like window you see while installing software on your computer. The window has Next and Back buttons, and program is based on step-by-step principle. It is the first advantage I've noted. Step-by-step calendar making is rather convenient for me. Each step is a group of related parameters, and such structure of program makes calendar creation easy even for me though I'm not an advanced computer user at all. The next thing I liked very much is interactive preview, which enables user to see changes in calendar look immediately after specifying any parameter. So, it's time to start the first calendar making.

Step 1

The first you should do is to choose interface language. Then, choose whether you want to create calendar from existing calendar template file (these templates are in the Sample folder, and you can also create your own templates) or start new project. The next is to choose calendar period: for the entire year or only for one month and choose a year or month respectively. My first calendar was for the next (2008) year, so I chose the entire year.

Step 2

Enter the calendar header. You can enter anything you want as a header; it's limited only with your imagination and your calendar size. My header was Happy New 2008 Year of Rat (Mouse). From Helen with love. How did I know 2008 year will be the year of Rat? Calendar Wizard has option Add eastern calendar title, so I hadn't to search for this information in Web. I liked this option very much. The last is to choose month arrangements - how many rows and columns will have the calendar (I've chosen four columns (4x3) - below I will put my choice into brackets)

Step 3

Month layout
You can select week orientation - weeks in columns or in rows (rows)
Week numbering can be added to the calendar (tick off)
You can set quantity of weeks in one row or column - 1 week, 2 weeks or all weeks (1 week)
Select the first day of week - any day can be set as week starting point, not only Sunday or Monday
You can see a sample of month appearance while choosing month layout

Step 4

Choose month and weekdays titles (one can choose language of the titles and there can be titles in more than one language at one time. Language can be chosen by pressing Clear and Add buttons - Clear to remove existing titles and Add to insert titles in needed language. You can repeat Add procedure until titles in all languages you want are added. Default language of titles is your system language. Tick off Brief titles to get abbreviated titles, if you don't tick it off, you will have full titles. One can also choose type of letters for month and weekdays titles - all capital, all small or small starting with capital. Take into account that you can change letters type only after clearing existing titles. For example, I had all capital letters for month titles and all small for weekdays. And I wanted to have titles starting with capital. So, I cleared month titles (pressed Clear button), chose an appropriate type of letters and then pressed Add and chose title language. The same procedure was made for weekdays' titles. As you can see, type of letters can be selected separately for month and weekdays titles. Brief titles can also be applied separately to weekdays or months titles. One can also add year to month title in two forms - full year number (e.g. 2008) and brief number (e.g. 08), or choose empty not to add year.) I've added brief month and weekdays titles in English and Russian (titles in different languages are separated with slash). What's interesting - you can enter whatever title you want. So, if Sunday, Monday etc. are too boring for you, you can enter "Weekend is over" instead of Monday, "I can't work any more" instead of Friday and so on.

Step 5

Choose the location of weekdays and months titles. The calendar can have one row\column of weekdays titles above or beneath a group of months or have the titles above each month. Month title can be arranged atop or to the left of a month (I've set weekdays titles above each month, and month title atop of a month).

Step 6

Concern the possibilities to save space by adjoining single day of the first or last week (if they are Sunday or Monday respectively) with next or previous week; to fell the gap in the first or last week with days of previous or next month for your convenience; and to show month gridline.

Step 7

If you've chosen to show month gridline (as I've done), your 7 th step is at first to determine cell size. One can choose cell size corresponding to the text size (In the text options). But I've chosen Selected cell size. After choosing Selected there appeared Width and Height values and selection of text alignment inside a cell. Then, I wanted to show gridline borders and ticked it off, after what I could adjust border width and line color. Line color (as well as text or background colors in the next steps) can be set manually by adjusting color values in CMYK or RGB models. But the easiest way to choose needed color is to click color box and select color using color palette. Cell color will be selected in the next step.

Step 8\7 (step number will vary depending on whether you've chosen to show month gridline or not - see step 6)

This step is to specify the parameters of days and titles. There are categories of days and titles in the left window. Having clicked the needed category, one can specify its parameters, such as text parameters (font, size, color), background color, and text orientation. So, I've chosen different fonts for titles and dates. Then, I used background colors to mark out Saturdays and Sundays (one can choose different parameters for Saturday and Sunday). Mind you, if you didn't choose to show month gridline, you wouldn't be able to set color background for date cells, year, month and weekdays titles. The thing I should mention - titles for Saturday and Sunday takes the color of Saturday and Sunday dates. It is important if your dates color is identical with background color for weekdays titles. In this case your "Saturday" and "Sunday" will merge with background and become invisible. One more advice - don't mix up white background with transparent background, they look identically in preview.

There is Holydays category. You can make your own list of important dates or edit existing one. These days have their own parameters, so, if you want, you can make them differ from other days using another font style, font size, text or background colors.

I must say, I liked this step very much, because it was very interesting for me to amuse myself changing my calendar's appearance and palette with some mouse-clicks. When I became tired of playing with fonts and colors, I went to the next step.

Step 9\8

I was offered to save my calendar's parameter for further use. I agreed and saved calendar template (.cbl file), which can be used in future for making other calendars.

Step 10\9

One can select file format to store the calendar. Available plug-ins are: Adobe PDF, HTML file, JPEG image, MS Excel, OLE Automation for CorelDraw and text format. After selecting a format, the next step is.

Step 11\10

.file building. It's different for each file format. What's pleasant - you can return to the previous step as many times as you want, so you can make files of all needed formats without opening program one more time.

So, the first calendar is ready. Making the second calendar (for one month), I saw there is no difference between a year and a month calendar except eliminating Step 2 and year titles in step 7. Having learned all features of calendar Wizard during the first calendar making, I made the second calendar within 10 minutes.

Let's sum up my experience. It's necessary to say about

Problems:

• Font size values sometimes return to default while setting cells parameters (step 8\7)
• result files can differ from preview a little. For example, MS Excel adapts colors according to its own color palette - colors set by you in Calendar Wizard and colors in Excel file may vary. Gaps between months take the color of weekdays cells background in Excel. Fonts in HTML files may be changed by your Internet browser, and, what I can't understand, each browser changes another font.
• I wish Calendar Wizard to have option of adding background picture. Of course, result JPEG calendar can be laid on any picture using graphics editor, but it would be more comfortable to have possibility of picture adding immediately in the program.

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Advantages:

• I liked it so much that I would repeat one more time - interactive preview is a very good idea.
• Calendar can be created in a matter of minutes.
• A lot of available plug-ins for result file making give a wide range of possibilities to use the calendar made with Calendar Wizard.
• Program interface is so easy and user-friendly that all parameters can be customized intuitively, without looking through Help file. There are many tips and notes which makes calendar creation easy and understandable.

Author: Helen Grigorieva

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In detail

The program works like a standard Windows wizard letting you to form the calendar image step-by-step:
Step 1. Determining calendar period.
Step 2. Arranging months. There is a built-in feature which lets you see the year title in eastern calendar format.
Step 3. Month's structure:

• vertical or horizontal orientation of weeks;
• first day of week (Monday, Sunday);
• variations of weeks showing (any quantity of weeks in row/column).

Step 4. Creating months and weekdays titles. The option to create multi-lingual calendars.
Step 5. Arranging calendar items
Step 6. Additional image parameters
Step 7. Gridline options

• color and width of lines;
• cells background ;
• cells size;
• text arrangement inside a cell.

Step 8. Calendar elements layout:

• font, font style name, size, color;
• text orientation;
• choosing dates, holidays and observances.

Step 9. Saving created image.
Step 10. Choosing a plug-in.
Step 11. Configuring and running a plug-in.

The image created can be saved for further use.

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Project news

01.07.03 - Version 2.3. Recent changes:

• new plug-in to create Adobe PDF;
• capability to split items of days and the calendar grid lines into different layers (for Corel Draw plug-in).

10.21.02 - Version 2.2. Capability of activity with Corel Draw 11 is added. The Add and Edit date options are much simpler now. You can add or edit the date in a separated window.

04.08.02 - Version 2.1 released! Preview the calendar created is now on any stage of creation.

01.28.02 - Version 2.0. Now there are program, interface and file of help in two languages: English and Russian.

12.25.01 - Version 1.2. Recent changes:

• Now program delivers with the installer.
• Is added plugin for creation of a calendar in MS Excel.
• The capability is added to stop process of construction of a calendar for a module CorelDraw.
• The capability of selection of the coding for a module HTML is added.

12.05.01 - The capability of activity with Corel Draw 10 is added.

12.01.01 - The program is adapted to Win2000.

11.22.01 - Is added plugin for creation of a calendar in HTML.

11.19.01 - Started beta-testings the program. The converters for CorelDraw, JPEG, Text are written.

10.18.01 - Creation of the basic module Calendar Wizard is finished.
Writing padding modules is started.