I use a Hipster PDA version of the DIY Planner. Can this program work with index card sizes?

Thanks in advance.

Great idea, but I'm not able to print the calendars on 5.5" x 8.5" paper, using my HP DeskJet 832C (using Windows version). When I go to page set-up, there is no option for that sized paper. I know that in Word I can specify custom sizes, but your application doesn't seem to allow me to do so.

Help! I would really like to use this app.

One tweak: cosmetic changes to the left hand page
And two extras: I created PDF Classic size calendars from January 2007 thru December 2009 - one with Sunday as the first day of the week, one with Monday.

Unless there are any other problems or complaints, I am calling this finished.

A few outstanding issues:

• The Mac PDF problem is (I think) a problem with MacOS. The notes on PagePacker at Big Nerd Ranch say that a fix should happen with Leopard, so I am going to wait and see. Using Preview is an acceptable workaround for the moment.
• Page size is still handled by the printer drivers due to a the way Qt implements that feature. The PDF page size is set by the printer driver. There is a "Custom Page Size" setting in Qt, but the problem is that there is currently no way to set the size of a custom page other than through the printer driver. If I "disconnected" the printer drivers, we would lose the ability to create just about any page size -- especially Hipster/index card size. Qt says this will be fixed in the next minor release (4.4.0)

I will be moving on to another template -- Two pages to the week. I made a promise.
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Hi ygor-
First off, thanks again for taking so much time to produce a product like this. It is a boon to all of us here without your skills, and all you get are pats on the back for your troubles. Kudos, indeed.

I have a couple of comments on what I saw in v1.1 (Windoze)- for the record I haven't tried 1.1.1.

I found the printing of the planning column on the left was so light you could barely see the box or the lines. Looks fine on screen, but not once printed. Everything else printed OK, and the lighter date squares for previous/next month seemed fine also. Perhaps this is one of the "cosmetic tweaks" you've hit on already.

My second issue is one I think was already mentioned in a previous beta version, but I can't find the post now. I used your app, and Acrobat Professional, to make a pdf of the months I wanted, then printed them from Acrobat rather than directly from your app. My printer won't duplex, so I had to do it manually. I printed my odd pages and they worked great. When I flipped my pages and printed the evens on the back side, all the pages had a box printed around the perimeter of the entire page. So, one print run was fine, the next wasn't, same program, same session, same settings. Odd.

I didn't have time to go back and play some more, but I'll get the latest version and do so.

Reese
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A general question to the D*I*Yers...

A previous poster asked about an option to add in things like holidays, birthdays, etc before printing thier pages. Not something you will be adding to your app anytime soon, as you said, and I wouldn't expect you to.

Can the multi-page PDF files be opened up in something else to add those bits manually? I think in Adobe Illustrator you can only open 1 page at a time to so so, then you have to print them one at a time, or take the time to remerge all the pages into a single document again. Is there something that lets you see and edit all the pages?

Reese
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I love you.

Just tried out the progam and somtething immediately jumped to my attention---I couldn't set the start month to this month (September 2007) only December 2006.

No offence but I have no need or desire to print out 18 pages of months that have already happened.

Is there a particular reason that the start month is stuck at not advancing past Dec. 2006?

Steven

PS. I think I'll steal the slider idea for adjusting the onscreen text scaling for a future project. ;-)

Ygor-
In the tracker list, it said the article was updated (Sept 27), but I can't see what you changed? Was it just the addition of the source? When you update an article, could you please add an addendum, with the date, as to what you changed? I like your idea of updating the articles rather than creating new ones, but it would help if we knew what was changed, and when. :-) Thanks.

-Jon

I can't seem to get the first month to be January 2008. It just stops at December 2007 and I can't move forward. I'm on a Mac (OS X 10.5.1)

Edited to add: Just read ygor's post in the Two Pages Per Day v1.0 thread. Move month first, then year.....

Also, I put in the "hooks" to read in translation files. The translation files will follow shortly.
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ygor,
I was working up a 2008 monthly planner for my wife over the weekend - gotta love waitng until the last minute - and noticed some oddities.

For the record, I was using v1.1.1 since I have no language issues. Perhaps you've noted and fixed this, if it's even a problem on your end.

1)Throughout the entire year there are random dates missing on the pages. It does seem like the 20th is usually gone, and then more random dates at the end of the month. Sometimes just a day or two, sometimes 3-4 days in a row. I can email you the PDF if you want it.

2)On one trial, I also had problems with the reference months in the bottom left corner - again a number of missing days. I didn't save that file, unfortunately.

In all cases I outputted to a PDF (with Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional) rather than directly to my printer. I have a suspicion that it is the PDF conversion, not your app, since it doesn't always happen. If I rerun the app, it is just as often perfectly executed. Odd.

Let me know if I can give you any more info, or the pdfs.

Reese

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If anyone wants more language support, I need volunteer translators or I will use The Babel-Fish
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This is one of the most awesome things I've come across! I'm making planners for the residents of a shelter I volunteer at, so I used the application to decrease the outer margins so I could print 2 months/page and simply cut in half and fold.

I noticed that it would look even better without the rectangular border around the 2nd half. Is this removable? If not that is totally fine and I will just leave it.

Thanks!

I am so excited to be a member of this site and share ideas with all of you!

I am having some trouble with this template program. Every time I print to pdf, the saved pdf has a blank screen. I have tried all types of different options. Not sure what else to try. I just need the 1 up classic 2008 monthly calendar with the same margins as the core package.
Thanks

First off, I want to thank you, thank you, thank you for all your work. These templates are wonderful and I love them.

If you are looking to maybe work on a different template (or add a new feature to this one), I would love to be able to print a month calendar on the vertical (landscape orientation), so that the weeks aren't split up. For example, see pages 7-8 in the diyp2_hpda_1up.pdf. I like to print the month on one card (front and back) and with the layout of the current template, I see the first 3 days of the week and then have to flip it over to see the last 4 days. With the landscape orientation, you still have to flip the card over but the weeks aren't broken up, so you see the first 3 weeks of the month on the front side and the last 2 weeks on the second side with the notes. This would allow me to see the entire week at once which would be really helpful.

What you have done is incredible, though. Thank you again!

I have tried to print this directly and it doesn't keep the margins properly, also it doesn't follow the printer driver's commands to print duplex (manually), i.e. it is supposed to print every other page and then it gives you an alert to reinsert the pages facing the opposite way. Also if I choose save to pdf, all I get are blank pages in the pdf. I have a pdf printer installed (CutePDF), but the print dialog can't seem to find the driver for it, only the driver for my main printer. I'm using Win Vista Home Premium with an HP Deskjet F380.

Thanks for any help you can give in this matter.

Gina

Hi everybody,

First, I would like to tell how amazed I was when I discovered the site 3 weeks ago.
Great great job and very nice community here !

I am on my way to bluid my first DIY A5 planner, with GTD inside.

Here is my point.
The french translation is brilliant and will make my planner building so easy ! But (there's always a but) it seems that a typo went into the " DIY_Two_Page_Week_fr_FR.qm " file.
Indeed, we should read planification with 1 (one) n, and no 2 (two).

If you want me to scan and upload a page from a french dictionary, tell me so.

Greetings to all, especially Douglas Johnston and Dan White

guiliguili