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Printing. Before printing to ‘hard copy’ it is often sensible to check that all is well by ‘printing’ a few sheets as a sprite output using !Sprinter (freeware by David Pilling) - or by ‘printing’ to a PDF output and viewing on a PDF reader (see below also).
Text captions. Don’t forget that a !Draw document can accept text (in whatever font/size/colour you wish - and it can also be rotated). Consequently, with up to three graphics areas definable in any !Calibre calendar design, there are many opportunities to add custom text, either to pictures or by using one of the picture areas exclusively for this purpose.
Drawfile output. If you would prefer to have your ‘printed’ output as a drawfile (perhaps for enlarging via the !DrawPrint freeware application) then the solution is straightforward:
1) arrange for a ‘PDF printer’ to be active on your iconbar. There are several ways to achieve this e.g. Steve Fryatt’s freeware !PrintPDF;
2) print in the normal way from Calibre;
3) view the resulting PDF output file in a PDF viewer e.g. the freeware !PDF (from Colin Granville et al) or RiScript.
4) save from the PDF viewer as a drawfile.
Large calendars. On a similar theme to the above, if you configure a PDF ‘printer’ to have a very large paper size then you will be able to design and ‘print’ correspondingly large calendars - taking the output to a commercial printer for the finished product.
Moon font. The ‘CalMoon’ font used for the depiction of the moon phases is - using standard RISCOS procedures - automatically loaded at start-up and deleted again on quitting. This works properly on the vast majority of machines. However, a small minority of Iyonix users have experienced difficulties with this.
In these cases the simple solution is to load the CalMoon font permanently on your machine and ‘REM out’ the line starting with FontInstall in !Calibre’s !Run file. There may then be a need to re-start your computer.
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