Calendar Creator

Java program to create annual planning calendars. Program execution results in a *.tex file you can easily compile into a *.pdf using a TeX compiler of your choice

Features

• Create a calendar for a certain year
• Automatically add German holidays to that years calendar
• Add custom entries like birthdays to that years calendar
• Save and load configurations for a certain year to a *.xml file
• Export a years calendar to a *.tex file. You can set the language (English or German) and choose from one of three different layouts
• Desktop application contains a user guide

How to run on Linux

• Download the repository and enter the project folder

$ cd calendar-creator

• Assuming Gradle is installed on your system, run this command to build the app from source

$ gradle fatJar

• At build/libs you should see the following now:

build/libs/
└── calendar-creator-all.jar

• Assuming OpenJDK 8 is installed on your system, run this command to start the app:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java -jar  build/libs/calendar-creator-all.jar

• Export your calendar *.tex file say to /tmp/cal2020.tex
• If you have TeXLive installed on your system, run the following command to compile your calendar

pdflatex /tmp/cal2020.tex

• Your finished calendar will be saved as /tmp/cal2020.pdf

Demo

(1) Classic calendar layout

(2) Layout with larger margin on the right

(3) Landscape layout

License

GPL-3.0-or-later