List of some third party calendar generator tools

[v_kyr]

Note: there are a bunch of calendar generation tools available, either on the net as online tools, or as specific apps, or as plugins for word processors and other common apps, or as common system CLI tools etc. All of these can be mostly used to generate all sort of calendars for a (re)usage in the Affinity Suite. - Thus I list here just a few of these calendar tools, so mostly some online and CLI tools, which don't need any account requirements, or to be extra bought.

 

Online calendar tools ( should be usable without account requirements )

• Advanced calendar creator (can generate various sorts of calendars)
• Basic calendar creator
• SVG Calendar Generator  (by Mensch Mesch)
• Create a calendar for any year
• Calendar Generator
• Design a custom calendar
• Make Word calendar online (can generate various sorts of calendars)
• PDF Calendar
• Fantasy Calendar Generator
• Personal life calendar generator
• ...etc...

 

OS CLI tools:

• cal  (macOS)
• ncal (macOS)
• Gnu gcal (macOS + Win, very powerful)
• Gnu gcal manual
• ...etc...

Python Scripting:

• calendar module
• calendar module tut
• workalendar module
• ...etc...

(to be continued over time)

[v_kyr]

I give a quick little example (a mini primer) for a by the "Python calendar" module generated localized 2024 calendar:

First you have to determine what locale languages are supported on your system (in my case macOS), to do so we can perform in a terminal (Terminal.app, iTerm2, etc.) a call of "locale -a" which will list as output a bunch of locales ...

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> locale -a
af_ZA
af_ZA.ISO8859-1
af_ZA.ISO8859-15
af_ZA.UTF-8
am_ET
am_ET.UTF-8
be_BY
be_BY.CP1131
be_BY.CP1251
be_BY.ISO8859-5
be_BY.UTF-8
bg_BG
bg_BG.CP1251
bg_BG.UTF-8
ca_ES
ca_ES.ISO8859-1
ca_ES.ISO8859-15
ca_ES.UTF-8
cs_CZ
cs_CZ.ISO8859-2
cs_CZ.UTF-8
da_DK
da_DK.ISO8859-1
da_DK.ISO8859-15
da_DK.UTF-8
de_AT
de_AT.ISO8859-1
de_AT.ISO8859-15
de_AT.UTF-8
de_CH
de_CH.ISO8859-1
de_CH.ISO8859-15
de_CH.UTF-8
de_DE
de_DE.ISO8859-1
de_DE.ISO8859-15
de_DE.UTF-8
el_GR
el_GR.ISO8859-7
el_GR.UTF-8
en_AU
en_AU.ISO8859-1
en_AU.ISO8859-15
en_AU.US-ASCII
en_AU.UTF-8
en_CA
en_CA.ISO8859-1
en_CA.ISO8859-15
en_CA.US-ASCII
en_CA.UTF-8
en_GB
en_GB.ISO8859-1
en_GB.ISO8859-15
en_GB.US-ASCII
en_GB.UTF-8
...
...

... next we simply reuse the choosen/wanted locale then in a little Python script, for generating a 2024 year overview calendar in DE starting always on mondays ...

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import calendar
### use in terminal -> "locale -a" and use the wanted locale for output
calsheet = calendar.LocaleTextCalendar(calendar.MONDAY, locale='de_DE.UTF-8')
output = calsheet.formatyear(2024, 2, 1, 1, 3)
print(output)

... and run that script ...

> python3 pcal_2024_de.py
                              2024

       Januar               Februar                 März
Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So  Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So  Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7            1  2  3  4               1  2  3
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14   5  6  7  8  9 10 11   4  5  6  7  8  9 10
15 16 17 18 19 20 21  12 13 14 15 16 17 18  11 12 13 14 15 16 17
22 23 24 25 26 27 28  19 20 21 22 23 24 25  18 19 20 21 22 23 24
29 30 31              26 27 28 29           25 26 27 28 29 30 31

       April                  Mai                   Juni
Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So  Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So  Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7         1  2  3  4  5                  1  2
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14   6  7  8  9 10 11 12   3  4  5  6  7  8  9
15 16 17 18 19 20 21  13 14 15 16 17 18 19  10 11 12 13 14 15 16
22 23 24 25 26 27 28  20 21 22 23 24 25 26  17 18 19 20 21 22 23
29 30                 27 28 29 30 31        24 25 26 27 28 29 30

        Juli                 August              September
Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So  Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So  Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7            1  2  3  4                     1
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14   5  6  7  8  9 10 11   2  3  4  5  6  7  8
15 16 17 18 19 20 21  12 13 14 15 16 17 18   9 10 11 12 13 14 15
22 23 24 25 26 27 28  19 20 21 22 23 24 25  16 17 18 19 20 21 22
29 30 31              26 27 28 29 30 31     23 24 25 26 27 28 29
                                            30

      Oktober               November              Dezember
Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So  Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So  Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So
    1  2  3  4  5  6               1  2  3                     1
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13   4  5  6  7  8  9 10   2  3  4  5  6  7  8
14 15 16 17 18 19 20  11 12 13 14 15 16 17   9 10 11 12 13 14 15
21 22 23 24 25 26 27  18 19 20 21 22 23 24  16 17 18 19 20 21 22
28 29 30 31           25 26 27 28 29 30     23 24 25 26 27 28 29
                                            30 31

• pcal_2024_de.py

If we let's say want to have instead months & days output in GR, we simply change the locale setting in above script to "el_GR.UTF-8" and let Python then generate the greek lang calendar for that locale ...

                              2024

     Ιανουαρίου           Φεβρουαρίου             Μαρτίου
Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ  Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ  Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7            1  2  3  4               1  2  3
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14   5  6  7  8  9 10 11   4  5  6  7  8  9 10
15 16 17 18 19 20 21  12 13 14 15 16 17 18  11 12 13 14 15 16 17
22 23 24 25 26 27 28  19 20 21 22 23 24 25  18 19 20 21 22 23 24
29 30 31              26 27 28 29           25 26 27 28 29 30 31

      Απριλίου               Μαΐου                Ιουνίου
Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ  Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ  Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7         1  2  3  4  5                  1  2
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14   6  7  8  9 10 11 12   3  4  5  6  7  8  9
15 16 17 18 19 20 21  13 14 15 16 17 18 19  10 11 12 13 14 15 16
22 23 24 25 26 27 28  20 21 22 23 24 25 26  17 18 19 20 21 22 23
29 30                 27 28 29 30 31        24 25 26 27 28 29 30

      Ιουλίου              Αυγούστου            Σεπτεμβρίου
Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ  Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ  Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7            1  2  3  4                     1
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14   5  6  7  8  9 10 11   2  3  4  5  6  7  8
15 16 17 18 19 20 21  12 13 14 15 16 17 18   9 10 11 12 13 14 15
22 23 24 25 26 27 28  19 20 21 22 23 24 25  16 17 18 19 20 21 22
29 30 31              26 27 28 29 30 31     23 24 25 26 27 28 29
                                            30

     Οκτωβρίου             Νοεμβρίου             Δεκεμβρίου
Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ  Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ  Δε Τρ Τε Πε Πα Σα Κυ
    1  2  3  4  5  6               1  2  3                     1
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13   4  5  6  7  8  9 10   2  3  4  5  6  7  8
14 15 16 17 18 19 20  11 12 13 14 15 16 17   9 10 11 12 13 14 15
21 22 23 24 25 26 27  18 19 20 21 22 23 24  16 17 18 19 20 21 22
28 29 30 31           25 26 27 28 29 30     23 24 25 26 27 28 29
                                            30 31

• pcal_2024_gr.py

It's that easy.

And of course we can also let the output to be generate into a file, or just pipe the output into a txt file instead, so we can easier copy/paste & reuse the generated output in the Affinity apps.

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> python3 pcal_2024_de.py > somefile.txt

When you copy/paste generated calendar texts over into Affinity, you best use some Monospace Font for the texts, so everything keeps to be aligned properly as was shown before in a terminal output.

• Top 10 Most Popular Monospaced Fonts

 

Of course the Python calendar module offers much more functions for generating a bunch of other customized different type of year, month and day calendars etc. But that would be beyond this little intro primer about building a simple localized year calendar.