I wrote an article about how to create calendars in InDesign Magazine, Issue #21 (December 2007/January 2008). For those of you who haven’t been subscribing, I encourage you to do so; or you can buy that one back issue if you want. The article mentioned templates you could use, but focused primarily on a script by Scott Selberg called CalendarWizard.
There is an old and crusty version on the Adobe Exchange, but I wanted to point out that you can also download the script from this page at indesignmag.com.
Also, if you’re wanting to lay out a calendar with vertical spreads (that is, where one page is on top of the other), be sure to read this post about PageControl, and this post with Anne-Marie’s cool trick.
For german speaking readers I take the liberty to give a link to my blog absatzsetzer.de (=paragraph composer
), where I had a posting about a very flexible way of calender-making with Excel and InDesign.
David, your classes on http://www.lynda.com are amazing and I love your articles on this site, you have increased my productivity and I feel far more powerful with the CS3 Suite, long life Adobe!!!
Teus de Jong wrote a nice little script in 2005 that automatically exports any document to PDF, then creates a new document in rotated aspect and places the PDF, rotated, ready for for either printing as spreads for top binding or single sheet use, or for imposing into a saddle-stitch binding.
You’ll find it at http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.3bbd4bb6/0
(cross-posted on the page with Anne Marie’s trick)
I have CS4 and subscribe to indesign magazine, however when I use the script fowllowing the directions I get an error. Any ideas what I am doing wrong.
You probably need a more recent version. I see that Scott has created a new site to host the development. See the CalendarWizard page a SourceForge.
Wondering if Scott has any plans to update this script for CS5? It sort of works but has a number of glitches with it…