Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

OK,
Make your own personalized Calendar!

That's right!  Place a different image on the page for each month; change the background color, change the number colors; Personalize!!

Hint! CUSTOM, Prints per page, 7 x 5.

Hint!  There are only 7 possible location variations for the dates, so if you save your "job", you can simply slide the numbers around into the proper locations for the next month, and save the job.
See Screen snap 119

There is one intentional error in the sample image.
If you can find it, First Three, win a FREE lunch with Mike Chaney in Sarasota, Fl. ???

If you cannot find it, I will add the correction during the afternoon.

HAVE FUN with your Qimage Ultimate!!

Fred

Sept has only 30 days. Also the days of the week are not included.

OH Wow!
That was fast!

Sometimes, those easy ones elude us.

Thanks, Dennis!
Fred

PS I will advise Mike to put $5.00 away in Escrow for your lunch!

Fred

With Dennis' advice, added days and changed the picture, and did April 2013

Fred

Here is my effort.
I made the Month table image with the days of the week in Serif Page Plus (DTP program).
The dates were added in QU with floating text, one row for each week.
Terry

Terry you need to add 31st for October. ;)

You can't slip anything past Dennis.

Tee Hee

Fred

It was a metric October  ::)
Sorted now  :D
I remembered: -
30 days hath September,
April, June & November.
All the rest have 31,
except February which has 28
or 29 in a Leap Year.

Terry

Once one is done and saved as a Job, others are easy.
Terry

I said in my post above;
I have now made blank  month calender in QU, see attached. Took me about 10 mins.
Terry

Please wait for Dennis' approval!

Fred

This is what I remember.

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest are 31;
Except for February 28
But in leap year we assign
February, twenty-nine.

Fred

How the hell did you make that calendar template??

Hi Paul,
I'm please to hear you have been challenged  ;)
I made the image using Print to File, steps as follows.

First you need some images of a plain colour to make the rectangle for each day.
You can do this in QU by printing to file:
Set up PTF with a suitable page size and resolution to make and image say of ~ 2000pixels, sRGB
Make the page background the colour required and add the template from any folder - this enables the page to print as a blank, the template will not show.

To make the calender:
Set up PTF with a suitable page size and resolution, see screen shot below.
Make a Custom image size of 6 rows and 7 columns per page, crop on.
I added a thin B type border
Add the plain colour images in sequence, top right to bottom left, using the plain colour images as required.
Open the page editor and add the days of the week as floating text, see screen shot for settings I used.
Finished result as 3rd screen shot.
Print to file and save with a suitable name.

If anything is not clear, please ask again.
Terry

Forgive me, but Terry's calendar is far nicer than mine, but for the sake of learning, I will present my simple recipe.

So...
Start with 7 x 5 page landscape
1) type in the number 31 in the copies box above the thumbs.

2) Open Print properties, Custom, Number of prints per page, and  set to 7 columns and 5 rows; say OK

3) Select a color for the background, I used a gold image for the background color for this demo....add a very thin border so you can see better (0.01)  Click the + sign of the thumbnail.  31 boxes for the days. (Reset copies back to 1)
Go to Print to FILE and print.

4) Set screen back to normal at 8.5 x 11 paper, with Optimal Spaced and Fit to page.

5 Go to the last thumbnail which is a template. Set that size to 5 x 7 and add two templates.

6) Now drag the saved print to file of the squares to the lower Template, and drag a nice picture to the upper one.

7) Open the Page editor and go Crazy with floating text. see attached 063


Fred