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

The kit is an example to get you started

ygor — Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:12:54 -0500

If you have other ideas, go for it.
Nothing says you have to stick with one style.
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Styles mostly

Arcitens — Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:09:20 -0500

Nothing big, I just noticed that some of the styles aren't the same as the most recent DIY planner core package. Like there aren't gradients in these widgets, and the checkbox sizes are different, etc. Just figured I'd ask.

oh, custom...

jonglass — Mon, 3 Jan 2011 06:43:37 -0500

...If you want custom, you will have to use the widget set, or go completely on your own. There are various notes forms in the dynamics, but nothing you can customize that much. However, you might want to peruse the user template gallery, and see if someone didn't already make what you are trying to do. :-)

-Jon

How do dynamic templates work?

Arcitens — Mon, 3 Jan 2011 01:23:40 -0500

I'm fairly new to this, so I apologize if I'm missing something. I just went to the dynamic templates page and to me it looks like they are only for making calendar pages. I'm trying to make new template pages tailored for my particular style of usage for things like project management. I was hoping to use this widget kit tool for that, and in fact I made a template page to do this, but then I realized it was sized for half a sheet of letter instead of A5. I guess I can just edit the sizes of everything down so it fits on A5, but I figured I'd check to see if there was something that was already like that out there.

What would you want updated ?

ygor — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:43:03 -0500

It is just a basic set of building blocks you can cut and paste into new templates.
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Dynamic templates?

jonglass — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:25:16 -0500

I think the new plan is for us to use the Dynamic Templates app to print out what we need. But last I read, there was no plan to update the widgets to the 3.0 DIYP templates.

-Jon

Updated version?/A5?

Arcitens — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:35:46 -0500

Hi, this is an amazing resource and thanks for putting in the time to create it. I noticed though, that the style is a bit different in the current version of the DIY planner, and I was wondering if you have any plans to release an updated version. Or for that matter releasing a version specifically for A5 planners? Thanks.

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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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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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.

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

The kit is an example to get you started

Styles mostly

oh, custom...

How do dynamic templates work?

What would you want updated ?

Dynamic templates?

Updated version?/A5?

5.5x8.5 2/page

First, REGISTER, please

Got IT!

Thats all fine but...

get a Mac ?

Font Date

Mac-only

Old or corrupt

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)