Printing a monthly calendar with custom pictures and events

Question

I want to print a monthly calendar on A3 (or 11x17", tabloid) paper, with spiral bindings in the middle of the (cut) sheet. The top half is a nice photo and the bottom is one month, with custom events that I control.

I know about this LaTeX extension which produces full-page results with pictures, but it's hard to use, and does not support full-page grids.

I also know about this Inkscape plugin but it only generates a full year on one page, not at all what I need. And there are various PDF, PowerPoint or ODT templates lying around, but none of those make my life any easier.

I want to programmatically generate the calendar. I have over 30 events I need to fill in and I don't want to do each by hand.

Said tool would also be free software based. Output would be PDF or SVG or some accessible format.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I have found that the only practical way to do this "programmatically" is to use LaTeX. There are templates for various vector editing tools, but those all imply downloading a new template each year and it's unclear where the template comes from. Some you need to pay for.

I ended up going with the wallcalendar project. It's hard to use, but it gave me great results.

Answer 2

In the off chance that you have an Apple Laptop / Desktop. You can print calendars from the calendars app, that comes installed, in many different ways, it's pretty flexible and has a lot of options.