[Editor’s note: I have updated my Calendar script to version 5 on 17 February 2009. Magicien de calendrier, Kalender-Zauberer, Mago del calendario, 日历巫术师, カレンダーã®é”法使ã„, Чудодей календара.
Get version 5 and read more about the changes and see new templates.
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[Editor’s note: I have updated my Calendar script to version 4. I now support multiple languages and fixed a few bugs. New video helps users set up tabs and change character styles. Magicien de calendrier, Kalender-Zauberer, Mago del calendario, 日历巫术师, カレンダーã®é”法使ã„, Чудодей календара.]
I was asked recently if I could automate the creation of calendars in Adobe Illustrator. It turns out there are a couple script for accomplishing this in InDesign (best is from sselberg), but only pre-built templates for Illustrator. If you need a new year, you’d have to search for a new template, which is lame. New script to the rescue! Thanks go to Joyce for this suggestion.
Download version 4 of Calendar Script (71k).
NOTE: You will need version CS3 or CS4 of Illustrator. If you have CS or CS2, get a trial version of CS4 from Adobe. Also see post about version 3 of the Calendar script.
New features and bug fixes in version 4:
- Multi-lingual: Languages added for English, Deutsch, Español, Français,Â ä¸æ–‡, 日本語’, руÑÑкий Ñзык, and custom. This affects both the graphical dialog for creating the calendars and the month and day words in the calendar itself when it is created.
- No longer need to have text frame selected, one will be created for you. If a text frame IS selected, it will be used.
- Added ability to easily stylize weekend (Saturday and Sunday) dates numbers (eg gray or red).
- Equal row spacing between months checkbox now works.
- Buttons for current year and month now work.
To install new scripts you need to:
- Quit Illustrator
- Copy the files into the Illustrator application folder’s “Presets†» “Scripts†subfolder
- After restarting Illustrator you can find the scripts in the menu “File†» “Scriptsâ€;
- TIP: You can create subfolders in the scripts folder to organize your scripts
There are several sizes of calendars:
- Wall calendar with smaller dates in box grid (you add the boxes).
- Wall mini 1 month calendar that fits in a date square in a wall calendar (prior month, next month).
- Page calendar, larger dates fill grid (no boxes).
- Page calendar, larger dates fill grid (no boxes) – 12 months at a time option.
- Mini calendar, 12 months small enough to fit on a business card.
View video demonstration of script (click to play, 9.3 megs):
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