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Old 01-06-2005, 02:38 PM   #1
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iCal printing

Does anyone know of a way to print iCal calendars so that it would be useful as some sort of day planner?
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Old 01-06-2005, 05:54 PM   #2
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I think your best bet is to make a screenshot of the iCal display and print that.
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Old 01-27-2005, 06:34 PM   #3
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Print from the file menu does fine. Maybe it has to do with active cursor placement, i.e. click on the calendar and out of the appointment/event drawer, and it prints fine. Monthly, weekly, whatever your calendar setting is. I use this all the time; it's built into iCal.
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Old 01-28-2005, 09:39 PM   #4
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I use iCal as a day planner too. The easiest way I've found is by using the file>print option but setting my printer output to print two pages per sheet, this way I can print a half page each for consecutive months and then just cut and paste them onto one page. If anyone knows of a way to set which side a half-page printout will appear on, I'd love to know! (so I could simply reinsert the first printed page...)
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Old 01-28-2005, 10:03 PM   #5
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just tested something.

if you go to print.

set layout to - two pages per sheet.

set iCal (on the same drop down as layout ) to -
print from 29/01/2005 to 30/01/2005

and also
print from 00:00 to 00:00


this ( at lest in my preview) prints two days on one sheet

Last edited by mark hunte; 01-28-2005 at 10:04 PM. Reason: always a typo some where
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Old 01-28-2005, 10:10 PM   #6
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****. I just realised.

This works also for month view. If you set page layout to 16
and iCal to print from 29/01/2005 to 30/12/2005
take off print mini months.

You get a Year planner.

I'm sure there was a post looking for this.
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Old 02-01-2005, 02:49 PM   #7
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Cocoa Booklet

Seems like if one were to set the page size to half of a normal page, then printed the days through something like Cocoa Booklet:
http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/cocoabooklet/ (or other imposition software),
one could print out a nice date book of sorts.
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Old 02-01-2005, 04:56 PM   #8
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more iCal printing questions

since I found this thread, I will ask different question or two.
a friend has an iCal calendar that has man "All Day" events in some places.
Only two of these will ever print.
Does anyone know how do get iCal to print 4 or 5 all day events?
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Old 02-01-2005, 06:02 PM   #9
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From Robg-on the hints site--I switched it to a six-up layout, and printed the year on two pages (a bit more readable for these aging eyes!).

Another way to help with seeing the cal.

Before you Do the Above do this first.
select colsync from the same drop down menu.

Take the Quartz Filter: to Add filter.

A new window pops up.
Tick - Preview
Select >black & white.
Click > Duplicate.
select the Intermediate Transform drop down menu: and take it to Custom.

You will see 3 tabs on the brightness line.
Take the left tab as far left as you can. ( to darken foreground )
Take the middle tab far left as you can.
Take the right tab just to slightly to the left (just to darken the background)

Change hue and Saturation as needed.
In fact change any of the tabs and play with the other menus to get what you like best.

Hit the close button. Then go back to print and select your new colour scheme under the Quartz Filter. and the the rest of the tip above.

** I am only looking at these on my screen, So you may or may not get different results when you print.

Image below shows my quartz window with changes
Attached Files
File Type: pdf Picture 4.pdf (55.4 KB, 2003 views)

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Old 02-15-2005, 02:24 PM   #10
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iCAL print text only for full year

I have been using iCal to keep a list of all medical and charitable driving over the past year. This is needed at tax time <frown>. However, despite searching a variety of places, I can not find any way to do this cleanly. I tried the export calendar thing but the output is SO UGLY and would require intensive editing by hand to make it legible. Has anyone found a way to accomplish this? It would be helpful if it ignored dates with no entries and if I could print the comments as an option. I'm on OS X 10.2.6 if that helps any.
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Old 05-06-2005, 11:41 AM   #11
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I have been using iCal to keep a list of all medical and charitable driving over the past year. This is needed at tax time <frown>.

I was searching for ways to change the printing of iCals when I came across both your post and this website: <http://www.pocketmac.net/products/pmicalprinter/indexg.html> It'll print your iCal in a list format. I haven't used it personally, but it kinda sounds like what you need.

-Dave
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Old 05-07-2005, 01:11 AM   #12
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thanks

thanks for the link I will check it out
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Old 05-09-2005, 08:02 PM   #13
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thought you might be interested to know that I contacted the folks who make a neat little application (but somewhat limited for my purposes) for printing iCal date ranges in a list format. 1) OS 10.3 or later, earlier versions of OS not supported. 2) and this one is the issue for me...prints ALL iCal entries for the date range. I use the categories feature and gather them as birthdays, medical, charitable etc. I wanted to print all the entries in just the medical category but they advise me that they don't support that.
Too bad, I would have gladly bought their product (www.pocketmac.net)
Thanks for the hint, sorry it didn't work out for me but it may for someone else.
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Old 05-09-2005, 10:08 PM   #14
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Note - Entourage works much better than iCal for printing calendars. That said...

I've found that iCal can work reasonably well if you do the following:

1. Via File:Page Setup - set the paper size to something huge ie: 11 x 17 or even larger. It's ok if your printer won't handle this.

2. Print and then preview instead of actually printing. Use Preview.app to scale the printed calendars back down to whatever paper size you actually want.

While this does not give you the full capabilities of Entourage or a better calendar program - it does allow all of the writing on the calendars to be seen on the printed pages. In my opinion this is a huge improvement and it comes close to making the calendars usable in printed form.

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Old 05-10-2005, 08:44 PM   #15
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On Screen iCal Month View--can it show more than one line per item

My iCal sometimes will show a second line for a given entry, often it cuts off after one line. I can scroll through--but I'd like to see the whole thing at once, on screen, in month view.

In Palm Desktop I had an option to "cut off long entries after 5 lines in month view" and I would like something similar in iCal.

Is there a trick?
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Old 07-23-2006, 11:07 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by hschickel
Note - Entourage works much better than iCal for printing calendars. That said...

I've found that iCal can work reasonably well if you do the following:

1. Via File:Page Setup - set the paper size to something huge ie: 11 x 17 or even larger. It's ok if your printer won't handle this.

2. Print and then preview instead of actually printing. Use Preview.app to scale the printed calendars back down to whatever paper size you actually want.

While this does not give you the full capabilities of Entourage or a better calendar program - it does allow all of the writing on the calendars to be seen on the printed pages. In my opinion this is a huge improvement and it comes close to making the calendars usable in printed form.

Hugh

One small addition to this excellent suggestion. When you click Preview, remember that you can save a Preview document out as a PDF, no special distiller software needed. Then open it in Acrobat Reader (free) and select "Fit to Printer Margins" when printing.
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