I want a simple program for Windows 2000 that does one thing well and
nothing more.  The program would import a list of calendar events in
ascii (Date, StartTime, EndTime, Description, SortPriorityWithInDay)
and then print a simple but well formatted monthly calendar. By well
formatted I mean that it handles overflow within a day elegantly
(reduce font size and/or increase size for day on the monthly
calendar).  I do not want any distracting graphics, just an executive
style printout of the events on a monthly calendar.  Calendar Creator
8 is the closest program I have found but it does not handle importing
of events as well as I wish. I have looked for years for this program.
 All that I have found are too complex (trying to plan my whole life),
too simple (do not handle formatting intelligently), or designed for
Web publishing instead of a simple printout to a laser printer.  All I
want is a program that will import my list of events and very
intelligently print them out as an elegant monthly calendar. It would
be OK if the software were a tool for Visual Basic, VBA, or Microsoft
Access. It would be fabulous if the software were written in Visual
Basic with source code that I could adapt.

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Request for Question Clarification by hummer-ga on 07 Dec 2002 12:51 PST

Dear miacid,

Have a look at this one:

Bill's Calendar: 
http://www.srosystems.com/sro_bc.htm


Additional Links:

Calendar Zone:
http://www.calendarzone.com/Software/

Calendar Master: free to try:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Tom_Hudgins/ProdMain.htm

Calendar with no VBX/OCX:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/6740/allfiles.htm

I'm hoping "Bill's Calendar" suits - if it does, let me know and I'll
post it as an answer. If not, let me know what it's lacking and I'll
have another look.

Sincerely,
hummer

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Clarification of Question by miacid-ga on 07 Dec 2002 15:09 PST

Unfortunately Bill's Calendar is not adequate for my expressed needs.

Problem One: It does not import (or export) a list of calendar events
in
ascii but only (a) some proprietary structure or (b) a web page.

Problem Two: It Does not handle overflow within a day elegantly but
instead ignors any overflow when printing a calendar, a condition
which would not be safe for someone who can not aford to loose
calendar information. (It does keep all the data for a date when
exporting to a web page but I need it to keep all data when printing
to a printed page). What the program should do is 1st reduce the size
of the font for a given day as the amount of data increases, 2nd
increase the size of the day, and 3rd give notice to refer to an extra
page where overflows areprinted.

I have been looking in Google for some years for the program I want
and am hoping that you or some person making a comment might have some
special insight for how to find it. I believe I have already looked in
the more obvious places such as http://www.calendarzone.com/Software/.
 This is the first time I have tried Google Answer and I hope my
question is not as frustrating for you as it has been for me. Perhaps
no one has written this software for Windows.  It is the kind of thing
that people used to write for DOS. What the program really should be
is a kind of print formating program that takes an ascii list of
events and prints them formated into a montly calendar.

Unfortunately, your requirement regarding "elegant" handling of
overflow is unlikely to be met in the way you describe. Reducing the
font size is alright for a small amount of overflow, but there is
always the potential for the overflow to be so great that the font
size *cannot* possibly be reduced sufficiently.

Increasing the size of the day has the same problem, plus has the
added issue of pushing out the day below it, possibly causing the
calendar to become more than one printed page, which becomes inelegant
again.

What if the program created (where needed) a separate "Notes" page
that printed with the calendar page? In this case, if the content was
too large for the day block, the day block would show "See Notes". The
Notes page would then have the day followed by the content. Would this
work for you?

What would be great would be to first reduce the font size for a small
amount of overflow and then if that is not sufficient, print "See
Notes" and have a separate notes page that would have the day followed
by the content. With both the font reduction for small overflow and
separate notes page for large overflow, just as you describe, the
program would be great for me.