Calendars in their printed form, despite the many applets and widgets installed on computers or mobile devices, are still in demand, at least because of their convenience. No need to open the program and look at the dates, just pay attention to the calendar page or turn it over. And if you make a calendar with your own hands using special programs, this process can be very exciting. But which calendaring program is the best of its kind? Let's try to figure it out.
Creating a calendar as a creative process
If you approach the issue of creating calendars precisely as a creative process, here the whole design in the form of the design of the frames or the photos used depends only on the user's imagination.
True, almost any program for creating calendars or even an office editor that is not directly intended for this can offer a fairly large selection of built-in templates. Naturally, at first you can start from their use. However, changing the built-in structures to your own looks much more interesting, with the replacement of some elements and saving the created template in the appropriate format.
The easiest calendaring program
To begin, consider what the most common office editors Word and Excel can do. Do not be surprised that they are considered in the first place, because even in such applications, creating a calendar can be very simple.
Even with minimal skills with such applications, special difficulties should not arise. Basically, the creation process itself comes down to using tables, not to mention the use of templates. But only in Word the numbering of days and the choice of months will have to be done by manually entering information, and in Excel you can immediately set the format of each cell as a date, and then select and drag the first field to create automatic numbering.
It goes without saying that creating a calendar is not limited to this. The minus of office editors is that with all the desire in terms of inserting pictures into the appropriate fields, you will not accelerate here. You will either have to resize in the editor itself, or set the optimal parameters in some kind of graphical application.
Separately, we can raise the issue of creating a calendar in these editors also means setting the size of the sheet. In Word, the indentation and size of the main sheet are set elementary, but in Excel it is impossible to do this without an initialized printer in the system. However, as an option, you can seek help from Microsoft virtual printing devices.
Best software development
But you yourself understand that in office programs creating a calendar takes a lot of time, not to mention some laboriousness of the whole process. Therefore, isn’t it easier to immediately turn to specialized utilities, which are designed for this?
There are a lot of developments today. However, as the simplest, but no less effective applications, the following can be noted:
- "Design calendars."
- TKexe Kalender.
- Mojosoft Photo Calendar Studio.
To say which program for creating calendars from the above is the best is difficult. But, having considered some of their possibilities, users themselves will be able to choose what they like.
"Design calendars"
This is a program for creating calendars in Russian. Running a little ahead, we note that each of the presented developments has several modifications. And "Design Calendars" is no exception. At least there are versions from the third to the tenth on the Internet, and most of the packages presented are portable, that is, they do not require installation on the hard drive.
Working with the application is very simple. Simply select a template indicating a specific time period (month, year, quarter), then set the header formats, insert an unlimited number of photos (which will be automatically sized to fit each cell), use clip art tools, place contact or advertising information, and Mark holidays or dates that are relevant to the user (e.g. birthdays). At the end of the work, the document is sent for printing. At the same time, almost all models of laser or inkjet printers are supported.
TKexe Kalender
Before us is another program for creating calendars with photos. In essence, it is not much different from any similar software product. True, user reviews on the Internet look, to put it mildly, not very flattering.
This is due only to the fact that the application is not always installed correctly on Windows 7. In addition, some say that the program does not have built-in databases with template support. This problem can be solved simply by simply downloading add-ons from the Internet. The procedure after a full installation is no different from any other application.
Mojosoft Photo Calendar Studio
Finally, creating a calendar, as the remarks on the forums show, using this utility becomes the easiest thing. There are more opportunities than the previous utilities, and the templates are much more diverse and beautiful.
In addition to the fact that the application supports almost all known graphic formats when inserting pictures, you can create non-standard large size calendars in it, and then print it. Naturally, you can mark the desired calendar dates, and apply a lot of completely non-standard effects in the design. That's just for the utility itself requires activation by entering a special key.
Conclusion
As already clear, consider absolutely all popular programs is simply impossible. Nevertheless, if the user can master both office editors and the proposed utilities, the scope for creativity will be simply unlimited. However, if you advise something in terms of practical application, for the first time, "Design Calendars." If you want to do something really professional, it is better to use Photo Calendar Studio (Russian is supported in the program).