Taurus CalendarMaker is a Java application designed to create your own calendars using your own photographs and images.
You create a template for your calendar, choose your pictures, then let CalendarMaker fill in the details for each month. CalendarMaker lets you print calendars for any year you wish, and uses the day/month names for your locale. Local holidays can also be entered (using simple text files).
Here are some key features of "Taurus CalendarMaker":
· Create calendars using templates, either by customizing the pre-defined ones, or by creating your own
· Templates may contain images, month/year titles and list/table calendars
· Layout can be independant of page size
· Fully internationalized
· Basic Accessibility support
· Support for Drag and Drop
· Load and save templates in XML
· PanoramaCalendar bean and example panorama template
· StaticImage bean for logos. Can be created by dropping an image file onto the page
· StaticTitle bean for copyright messages etc
· Coversheet template
· First day of the week can now be changed on TableCalendar bean
· Diary entries can now be turned on and off
· Text in Title beans can now be justified
· Keyboard move/resize of the selected bean using the cursor-keys and Alt-
· and Shift-keys. Beans can also be inserted using just the keyboard
· All beans can have their aspect-ratio locked in coordinate layout mode
· In readiness for user-definable beans, beans are added to Edit toolbar by interrogating BeanInfo
· New icon for the program, to be used in the title bar and on shortcuts etc
· Run scripts now take an argument of a template to load at startup
· Installer for Windows users
· British English properties now supplied (in addition to US English)
Requirements:
· Java Runtime
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Clear Selection used Ctrl Z, but now uses the more conventional Ctrl D.
· Beans used integer arithmetic, now they all use floats for improved drawing accuracy.
· Fixed font size when editing a cell in MonthImage properties, which caused the filename to "jump".
· Fixed default font to be "sansserif" instead of "Helvetica", which doesn't exist on many platforms.
· Fixed proportional (or constrained) resizing of beans using the Ctrl key.
· Fixed missing icon in colour editor when properties window re-opened.
Improved Features:
· Much better Focusing: The Tab key can be used to select beans for editing in the template; New selections automatically get the focus.
· Graphical Anchor and Fill editors on the Layout properties page, both with proper keyboard navigation using the cursor keys.
· New Font style editor buttons for Bold and Italic.
· Improved Colour editor with Greyscale and Web colour pickers, which remembers recently used colours.
· Improved names and descriptions for Accessibility, incl...