Dynamic Templates

This is a copy of the D*I*Y Planner Dynamic Template application that was posted to diyplanner.com/node/6210 back in 2009, but lost when the website was reorganized sometime later. Luckily the announcement and the source code were crawled by the Internet Archive, so it was possible to save it. An example of the page-per-day, "DIY3 Right Hand Style" template formatted for the reMarkable2 e-ink tablet shown above is in example-diy-planner.pdf (page size 14.0x19.4cm, margins 0,0,1.5,0, line spacing 0.6cm).

Build instructions

This has been updated to use CMake as a build generator rather than qmake. It was tested with Qt 5.15.2 LTS on Windows 10 x64 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 x64. After installing Qt5 and adding its msvc2019-x64\bin folder to your path, you can open the folder directly in Visual Studio and it handles the CMake file correctly. You can then build directly from there.

Dynamic Templates v2.05 announcement

This is a copy of the original post:

The D*I*Y Planner Dynamic Template application has now hit version 2.0, ready to produce any size and shape of yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily calendars for your printing pleasure. All designs are based upon the Classic versions of the D*I*Y Planner, along with input from Doug, and so will integrate completely into your DiyP setup. (The daily design was created by Doug, but was never implemented as a static template owing to the insane amount of repetitive work required.)

Simply select your paper size, choose the calendar type, and tweak the settings to come up with your own printable set of calendars that perfectly fit your planner and your lifestyle.

The Mac version was built in Mac OS 10.4.11, using Qt 4.5.2

This is multi-platform software. Below are download links for pre-built, static, binary applications for both Windows and Mac OS X as well as the source code. Through the Nordic Magic of the Qt Libraries, both of these applications were built from the same source code. This source can be built on any platform supported for Qt 4.5.2

Some Major Changes:

One application instead of many. The initial merge was a pain, but once established, adding new templates is now far easier. This release replaces all of the individual Calender-type Dynamic Templates, which will be disappearing in the near future.
No Printing, Only PDF and SVG. Details below.
ANY Page size, Painlessly. I included the major US and European page sizes along with a Custom Page Size control. The Qt feature that lets me do this was new to Qt 4.4

I would like to believe the application is intuitive easy to use, but what I call easy may not be so for other folks, so here are some basic instructions.

Be sure you have the font "Blue Highway" installed as it is hard coded into the application
Use the "Page Size" tab to set paper size and margins
Use the calendar widget and the First/Last selectors to set your page range.
The Qt date widget is a bit non-intuitive. Here's how to "do it". (I'm doing this a step at a time with a copy of the application running as I type this - Two Pages per Day template - originally posted 30 May 2008) The default date selection is today for both first/last. The widgets are set so that the last day must be AFTER the first day, so you should start by setting the LAST day.
Click on "May" in "Last Day" then click the up-arrow once. Last Day should now read "June 30,2008".
Click on the "1" which is June 1st to set the displayed date to June 1, 2008
To set the "First Day", decrement the day from May 30 to May 1, then increment the month from May to June.
Now the range is June 1 to June 30.
If you do not like the way this works, complain to Trolltech, the makers of Qt.
Set your line width and Line Spacing with the "Line Spacing and Thickness" tab. Try tinkering with a custom line spacing on the templates that have blocks of lines. The spacing is done as multiples of a single line and that can leave blank space at the page bottom
No printing, just PDF or SVG. For multi-page PDF output, you can use the "File" menu or just type [Control-S(Win)/ Command-S(Mac)] This is, I hope, a temporary thing. At the last minute, I ran into difficulty between the parts that "draw" to a printer versus the parts that "draw" to a PDF document. I decided to just pull the print feature rather than delay the release. We have figured out how to arrange and rearrange PDF's for double-sided (duplex) printing:
Arrange Pages for 2-Up Duplex Printing
- Dynamic Templates and Multivalent: Example 1 - January 2008 classic booklet
- Dynamic Templates and Multivalent: Example 2 - A 2 year classic booklet
Graphic output in SVG format. Be careful: It makes one file per page. [Control-P(Win)/ Command-P(Mac)] SVG is Scaled Vector Format. An open source equivalent of the file format used by Adobe Illustrator. There is a freeware application called Inkscape you can use to edit the shape and color of any generated template page.
The "Controls" are in what Qt calls a dock. It can be detatched to be a floating window or it can be hidden. To the right of the word "Controls" you see two small icons. The left had one "un-docks" the controls and the right hand one will hide it. To re-dock the window, double-click on the window's title bar - where the word "Controls" is. To un-hide it, use the "View" menu on the menu bar (On the application window for Windows, at the top of the screen for Macs)

Please let me know if you encounter problems. I do not consider this totally finished. There are refinements to be made, but it is, I believe, Ready for Prime Time.

License

License granted to me (Dan White) by Douglas Johnston to duplicate the DIY Planner forms look and feel under the Creative Commons NC-ND License. The source code is declared under GNU GPL.

Language

That's part of the Nordic Magic. Qt allows one to make an application multi-lingual. If you want to add a language, All I need is a list of words and phrases translated and they can easily be added to the application.

Current known problems:

None (yet). My goal is to add direct printing and the ability to save into a graphic format (SVG or PNG or something).

Version History:

2.0: Initial Release
2.01:
- Bug 01 - Full date range not "printing"
- Bug 02 - Second pages not "printing"
2.02: Bug 03 - month display, 5th week/first day comes up as "1"
2.03: Bug 04 - line spacing added to 2 pages per week and 2 pages per month -- AND !! -- Notes !
2.04: Bug 05 - 2 page per month inner/outer margins reversed on right hand page Plus !! two added goodies !! - I added an interactive label to the pen/line thickness control and I added a Progress Dialog to let you see your PDF's being generated.
2.05: 6 new templates, a credit line, and SVG output. The new templates are:
- One Page Per Day: Daily Journal pages -- Lined, Grid, and Blank
- Two Pages per Month - Landscape. I did this on 11 by 17 inch paper for a wall calendar !
- Two Pages per Week - one Portrait and one Landscape done in a minimal style inspired by Moleskine

Paper Sizes:

I originally wanted to include all the following in the application, but was asked to remove it to avoid legal issues. The info is important for folks using commercial binders, so I feel safe including it like this:

Franklin-Covey Page Sizes:

Pocket 3 x 5 inches
Compact 4.25 by 6.75 inches
Classic 5.5 by 8.5 inches
Monarch 8.5 by 11 inches

Filofax Page Sizes:

Mini 67 by 105 mm
Compact/Slimline/Personal 95 by 171 mm
Pocket 81 by 120 mm

Levenger Circa Page Sizes:

Micro PDA 2 by 3.5 inches
PDA 3 by 5 inches
Compact 3.75 by 6.75 inches
Junior 5.5 by 8.5 inches
Letter 8.5 by 11 inches

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