PhotoCalendar

A Python utility to create custom weekly/monthly/... photo calendars. For example:

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Examples
  • Usage
  • Templates
• Installation
• What is here
• Contribution
• License
• Acknowledgements

Overview

The program creates the calendar in HTML format.

Note: you can then print it to PDF using browser or, e.g., weasyptint utility.

User may provide (see examples below):

• name of weekdays and months and their abbreviations
• images (for each week, for title page, for backgrounds)
• name-days
• public holidays
• religious holidays
• notes (friends' birthdays, anniversaries, ...)
• template how the final calendar looks like
• title, first week day, ...

HTML templates

The produced HTML structure and CSS styling is defined by template - a python module defining toHTMLString(calendar) function and CSSString string variable. As an example and inspiration, a few predefined templates are provided. See examples, documentation or source code for more information how to create a custom template.

Compatibility

The package works with both Python 2 and 3 (tested on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2).

Examples

Usage

Python:

from photocalendar import PhotoCalendar
calendar = PhotoCalendar( # not all arguments are mandatory
	outputBase                = "/some/output/base",
	year                      = 2019,
	firstWeekDay              = "Tu", # Tuesday as the first week day? Well, why not...
	imagesDirectory           = "/some/directory/with/images/for/each/week",
	imageDescriptionsFile     = "/some/file/with/image/descriptions/for/each/week",
	backgroundImagesDirectory = "/some/directory/with/backround/images/for/each/week",
	title                     = "Some calendar title",
	titlePageImage            = "/some/image/for/title/page",
	titlePageBackground       = "/some/background/image/for/titlepage",
	lastPageBackground        = "/some/background/image/for/last/page",
	nameDaysFile              = "/some/file/with/name-days",
	religiousHolidaysFile     = "/some/file/with/religious/holidays",
	publicHolidaysFile        = "/some/file/with/public/holidays",
	notesFile                 = "/some/file/with/notes/like/birthdays/etc",
	weekDayNamesFile          = "/some/file/with/custom/weekday/names",
	abbrWeekDayNamesFile      = "/some/file/with/custom/abbreviated/weekday/names",
	monthNamesFile            = "/some/file/with/custom/month/names",
	abbrMonthNamesFile        = "/some/file/with/custom/abbreviated/month/names",
	template                  = "delphinus",
)
calendar.toHTML()

Shell:

# not all arguments are mandatory
photocalendar \
	--output-base                 /some/output/base \
	--year                        2019 \
	--first-week-day              Tu \
	--images-directory            /some/directory/with/images/for/each/week  \
	--image-descriptions-file     /some/file/with/image/descriptions/for/each/week \
	--background-images-directory /some/directory/with/backround/images/for/each/week \
	--title                       "Some calendar title" \
	--title-page-image            /some/image/for/title/page \
	--title-page-background       /some/background/image/for/titlepage \
	--last-page-background        /some/background/image/for/last/page \
	--name-days-file              /some/file/with/name-days \
	--religious-holidays-file     /some/file/with/religious/holidays \
	--public-holidays-file        /some/file/with/public/holidays \
	--notes-file                  /some/file/with/notes/like/birthdays/etc \
	--week-day-names-file         /some/file/with/custom/week/day/names \
	--abbr-week-day-names-file    /some/file/with/custom/abbreviated/week/day/names \
	--month-names-file            /some/file/with/custom/month/names \
	--abbr-month-names-file       /some/file/with/custom/abbreviated/month/names \
	--template                    delphinus

Template examples

Note: the photos and backgrounds are only illustrative. They are provided by the user in the real use case.

The title page and one inside page is shown.

In the illustrations, picture of Golden Gate Bridge and picture of Matterhorn are used.

Template delphinus:

Weekly A5 landscape calendar

Template columba:

Monthly A4 portrait calendar

Template lupus:

Two-weeks calendar

Installation

1. Using setup.py file:

   python setup.py install [options], e.g. python setup.py --user

2. Using make (calls setup.py internally):

   make install [options], e.g. make install USER=TRUE PYTHON=python3

3. Using pip

   [sudo] pip install [options] photo-calendar, e.g. pip install --user photo-calendar

What is here

file/directory	description
bin	directory containing executable python script
doc	source files for HTML documentation
examples	directory with examples
images	images for github page (e.g., templates illustrations)
locale	files for localization (public holidays, name days, etc.)
Makefile	makefile for the project (with targets help, install, doc, test, clean, dist)
photocalendar	actual python package
setup.py	python setup file for installation
tests	python unit tests

Contribution

Pull Requests

Are welcome. Especially:

• locales (name-days, public holidays)
• templates

But, please, discuss the intention beforehand with the author.

Bug reporting

In case of any question or problem, please leave an issue at the githup page of the project.

Contributors

• Jan Stránský

License

This project is licensed under the LGPL License - see the license file for details.

Acknowledgements

• to Petr Hlaváček for the inital idea and LaTeX implementation and providing his source code
• to dominate python package for HTML creation inspiration