Problem with Calendar creation

[AlanMR]

This problem actually relates to PagePlusX8 rather than Affinity Publisher, but I have made the query on the Legacy forum unsuccessfully. It seems to me that the answer really needs to come from Serif technical support, rather than the people who have replied in that forum who are unable to answer the question I posed, and this support is no longer available to the Legacy forum. As a result I am hoping to get some assistance here.

I have a problem with trying to incorporate public holidays in a calendar, which are clearly no longer updating due to the length of time since PPX8 was discontinued. I can enter these manually as if they were personal events but it would be useful if it is possible to import the details en bloc from a spreadsheet/csv file.

[Komatös]

Hello @AlanMR If the function does not exist in PPX8, Serif Support will not be able to help you here either, since, as you have already correctly pointed out, the development of PPX8 has been discontinued.

[firstdefence]

You could also help by linking to the original forum post you created so people can see what has already been discussed. There are people on here who have used the older software so they might be able to shine a light of this issue but I doubt you'll get much in the way of support for a discontinued app.

Have you looked at Affinity Publisher? you can download a trial 🙂

Good luck though.

[Alfred]

9 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

You could also help by linking to the original forum post you created so people can see what has already been discussed.

The thread in question is here.

[AlanMR]

AJ

Thanks for the suggestion - this is the thread in the PP8 Forum https://community.serif.com/forum/116258/pageplusx8-calendar-public-holidays-and-personal-events (sorry - double posted with Alfred!)

As you see it didn't really get anywhere towards answering the question.

In respect of upgrading to Affinity Publisher, I only use PP8 relatively spasmodically; it serves my needs, and I don't really have any enthusiasm for finding my way round a completely new software. (It didn't work for me with Affinity Photo and I am still using PhotoPlus with complete satisfaction!)