DIY Planner - DIY Planner Widget Kit 0.6 (for OpenOffice.org 2.0) - Comments

5.5x8.5 2/page

Cristy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:30:38 -0400

Just wondering if any templates are designed to print two per page 5.5x8.5?

First, REGISTER, please

ygor — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:41:02 -0400

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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

Got IT!

Ken W — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:27:44 -0400

For some reason, even though the text fields were set as Blue Highway, the font wasn't. Odd, because it printed correctly in OpenOffice. I highlighted all of the text in the document and changed everything back to Blue Highway and the document is complete.

How would I go about submitting the template to the site?

Thats all fine but...

Ken W — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:15:59 -0400

I would run Linux over both if work would allow.

Any ideas on the font?

get a Mac ?

ygor — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:43:16 -0400

It's one thing to tell PC users that a Mac is better, but to show them that even a PC is better when it runs on a Mac really drives the point home.

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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

Font Date

Ken W — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:16:34 -0400

Even though this is a Mac only thing, I checked the fonts. The fonts I have are in XP from 2007, three years newer than the font in the widget kit.

Anyone have other ideas?

Mac-only

jonglass — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:53:00 -0400

That's a mac-only thing, and what happens is you get exclamation points instead of spaces.

-Jon

Old or corrupt

reepicheep — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:10:58 -0400

I recall there were people encountering problems with some copies of the font. Might be worth double-checking that you have the latest version installed.

Font is Installed

Ken W — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:31:13 -0400

Yes, I installed the font into Windows using the fonts applet in the Control Panel.

Font installed?

caligatia — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:05:35 -0400

Do you have the Blue Highway font installed on your computer?

PDF of new Form

Ken W — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:45:28 -0400

I have made a new form to handle project meetings and it looks great. The problem I have is that when I PDF the form, the fonts all revert from the default font used by the DIY Planner Widget kit to Times New Roman. If I can fix that, I can PDF and share this with the template library and coworkers.

I tried using a PDF printer as well, but the widget pieces get distorted. They only look good if I use the PDF Export function of OpenOffice. Then I get the font issue. Has anyone run into this? Is there a workaround? I like the default font and would like to keep it. - Thanks!

It should work fine.

Tournevis — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:15:56 -0400

It should work fine.

OpenOffice 3?

Ken W — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:17:26 -0400

I was wondering if this works in OpenOffice 3 beta? I am looking to make a new Project/Meeting template and didn't want to have to uninstall OO3 if it doesn't work.

Anyone try this? - Ken

Thanks Muchly!

Rocket Jones — Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:28:12 -0400

ygor, this rocks. I just finished my first custom form, requested by my wife. It's fiddly, but anything sufficiently flexible to be worthwhile is, and this is.

Now, on to her second request, and then I'll figure out how to upload these puppies and give back a little to the group.

oh nevermind. I neglected to

elana — Wed, 7 May 2008 22:50:36 -0400

oh nevermind. I neglected to realize you have to INSTALL the font after downloading it. Like I said, completely computer illiterate, this project will be interesting :-)

p.s.- you guys are AWESOME!

DIY Planner Widget Kit 0.6 (for OpenOffice.org 2.0)

dougj — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:30:00 -0500

A little early Christmas gift for those budding template designers among you: a brand new version of the D*I*Y Planner Widget Kit for OpenOffice.org 2.0, stogged tight with graphical elements you can use to create your own forms.

The kit now includes:

Better standardisation of widgets, lines and fills to match the forthcoming D*I*Y Planner 3.0 kits.
Plenty of annotations and tips to help explain things, ensure consistency, and give a little peek into my process. (These are located to the sides of the pages, so you may have to zoom out.)
Several new widgets to round out the set.
A sample monthly calendar page that you can use to create your own months.
A sample weekly calendar (8 boxes on 1 page) so you can design your own weeks.
A sample page with various components laid out so you have something to start tweaking.
Colours that match the D*I*Y Planner standard colours (or should I say tones).
A new file format (OpenDocument) to take advantage of OpenOffice.org Suite 2.0, which of course is a free download. No guarantees are given for backward compatibility to the 1.x series, but since the new version of Draw is significantly better, I highly suggest getting 2.0 anyway.
The Blue Highway fonts (regular and bold), which should be installed prior to opening this file for the first time.

It's still an early version, and more widgets are yet to come, so feel free to chime in with comments, bugs and requests. On a personal note, let me say that OOo2 Draw has turned out to be extremely easy to use, without any of the problems and irritations that plagued me with 1.x. For the design of templates, I think I can finally recommend it as much as I would Adobe Illustrator, and that's really saying something -- AI is the program I used to construct all the 'Planner kits till now.

Download:

D*I*Y Planner Widget Kit 0.6 (80K)
Sample PDF File (360K)

This package is released under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- ShareAlike License.

Note for Hipster PDA Designers: For those people looking to develop Hipster PDA templates, you can use this Widget Kit, although I'm working on getting a 5.5"x8.5" version to 1.0 first before anything else. To make hPDA templates, you can either scale your final design to 3"x5" size (which would throw off the proportions, probably), or you can try the following:

Set the page dimensions to 3" wide by 5" high, with a margin of 1/4".
Select the whole page of Widgets, grab a corner handle, and while holding down the shift key (this keeps the right proportions), resize until it fits into the left and right margins. This may take a few attempts, and a little practice.
Drag the widgets so that the title falls just under the top margin.
You may also have to fiddle a bit with the various line thicknesses and font sizes to get it looking right.

Note for A5 Designers: The D*I*Y Planner generally has A5 margins set as: top 0.325"; bottom 0.325" (thereabouts, depending on the form); inside (with punch holes) 0.5-0.7" (depending on form); outside 0.5". The top and outside margins are the strict ones; the others are a little more variable, and are tied to the size and shape of the form.

D*I*Y Planner - D*I*Y Planner Widget Kit 0.6 (for OpenOffice.org 2.0) - Comments

5.5x8.5 2/page

First, REGISTER, please

Got IT!

Thats all fine but...

get a Mac ?

Font Date

Mac-only

Old or corrupt

Font is Installed

Font installed?

PDF of new Form

It should work fine.

OpenOffice 3?

Thanks Muchly!

oh nevermind. I neglected to

D*I*Y Planner Widget Kit 0.6 (for OpenOffice.org 2.0)

DIY Planner - DIY Planner Widget Kit 0.6 (for OpenOffice.org 2.0) - Comments

DIY Planner Widget Kit 0.6 (for OpenOffice.org 2.0)