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This article is from April 14, 2008, and is no longer current.

Need to Build a Calendar in InDesign?

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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.

David Blatner is the co-founder of the Creative Publishing Network, InDesign Magazine, CreativePro Magazine, and the author or co-author of 15 books, including Real World InDesign. His InDesign videos at LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) are among the most watched InDesign training in the world.
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  • Robert says:

    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!!!

  • Peter Spier says:

    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 https://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.3bbd4bb6/0

    (cross-posted on the page with Anne Marie’s trick)

  • Vondora says:

    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.

  • Josh Gordon says:

    Wondering if Scott has any plans to update this script for CS5? It sort of works but has a number of glitches with it…

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