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Old 12-02-2009, 01:45 PM   #1
ToddPeperkorn
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Create custom .ics calendar for printing?

Is there any way to create a document in Pages, Numbers or something else that will import the data from an .ics file?
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Old 12-02-2009, 06:26 PM   #2
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What do you expect to see in the document? .ics files reside in ~/Library/Calendars/ and they are just text files. A typical one looks like this (an oil change appointment on August 7th, 2009):

Quote:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//iCal 3.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
SEQUENCE:3
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:0E6A3B60-094A-4E9A-AF78-536739B4564D
DTSTART;TZID=Canada/Atlantic:20090811T140000
DTSTAMP:20090807T170155Z
SUMMARY:Oil Change
CREATED:20090807T170131Z
DTEND;TZID=Canada/Atlantic:20090811T150000
BEGIN:VALARM
X-WR-ALARMUID:0C2CC33A-3C34-43A7-B941-4C0D126CD3AA
ACTIONISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Event reminder
TRIGGER:-P1D
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Where it gets really messy is with recurring events. iCal only records the first instance of a recurrence and computes the others on the fly. Unscrambling that is a messy prospect given the number of recurrence conditions that can be applied.
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