http://billmill.org/ Bill Mill blogs irregularly 2005-11-16T22:20:00Z Bill Mill bill.mill@gmail.com http://billmill.org/ http://billmill.org/calendar.html 2005-11-16T22:20:00Z

Today, I needed a quick and dirty PDF calendar generator. Fortunately, with python handy, it was blazingly easy to knock one up. Using the <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-calendar.html">calendar moduule</a> and the <a href="http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html">ReportLab PDF library</a>, it took me about 10 minutes to learn enough of the API to get started, and another couple of hours to finish the script - you can find it <a href="http://billmill.org/static/files/pdf_calendar.py">here</a>.<p> Usage is pretty simple:<p> <textarea rows="6" cols="60">from pdf_calendar import createCalendar #create a December, 2005 PDF c = createCalendar(12, 2005, filename="blog_calendar.pdf") #now add January, 2006 to the end createCalendar(1, 2006, canvas=c) c.save()</textarea><p> This script will create a PDF file called "blog_calendar.pdf" with two pages, one for December 2005 followed by one for January 2006. More details can be found inside the script.<p> <b>update</b>: Now with <a href="http://billmill.org/static/files/blog_calendar.pdf">sample output</a>.

Today, I needed a quick and dirty PDF calendar generator. Fortunately, with python handy, it was blazingly easy to knock one up. Using the <a href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-calendar.html">calendar moduule</a> and the <a href="http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html">ReportLab PDF library</a>, it took me about 10 minutes to learn enough of the API to get started, and another couple of hours to finish the script - you can find it <a href="http://billmill.org/static/files/pdf_calendar.py">here</a>.<p> Usage is pretty simple:<p> <textarea rows="6" cols="60">from pdf_calendar import createCalendar #create a December, 2005 PDF c = createCalendar(12, 2005, filename="blog_calendar.pdf") #now add January, 2006 to the end createCalendar(1, 2006, canvas=c) c.save()</textarea><p> This script will create a PDF file called "blog_calendar.pdf" with two pages, one for December 2005 followed by one for January 2006. More details can be found inside the script.<p> <b>update</b>: Now with <a href="http://billmill.org/static/files/blog_calendar.pdf">sample output</a>.