I've made calendars for various friends and family members for 5-6 years
now, as Christmas presents. I include the birthdays of everyone in my
extended family and all kinds of obscure holidays and trivia items. While it
saves me a lot of anguish finding last minute presents, it has turned into a
fairly large annual project, especially since I include over 200 holidays
and trivia items, and over 100 birthdays.
This means that every November and December I'm an expert on obscure
calendar-related calculations, and have absolutely no free time. Every year
I'm sure I don't have nearly enough good quality photographs at the start,
but somehow I manage to find 12 landscape photos and 1 portait photo that
I'm reasonably satisfied with (especially since my standards get a lot lower
as the deadline approaches).
When I started I used Paintshop, but it it turned out to be far too much
work. Then I used Word for a few years, but was never satisfied with it.
I've never found a good template for non-english calendars, neither for word
nor using online tools, so in the end I wrote my own program that has now
been jury rigged so much that it's falling apart.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know what you're getting yourself into when
you want total control over size, fonts, etc. and to add the holidays you
choose :-)
Thrainn
Thanks, Dave. Maybe I will go that way in the future if I ever make more
than two copies of a calendar. ;-) I sort of like, though, having total
control
over everything about it, size, fonts, etc. I also liked adding the
holidays
I chose.
Marnie aka Doe :-)
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