This tool was created to easily generate and print refills for your calendar/planner yourself. It comes with two premade templates, one for a single page A4 layout, and a double sided A5 layout.
It outputs a single merged PDF file result.pdf containing all pages in the correct printing order.
This project was built using .NET 6.0 Core. For building the following NuGet dependencies are needed:
- PdfSharp
System.Text.Encoding.CodePages
To build, simply execute the following command:
dotnet buildThe corresponding executable calendar.exe will be in the bin directory.
We use a very simplistic approach to PDF generation. So far, there was no need to integrate a fully-fledged templating engine, nor a dedicated library for programmatic PDF generation (such as QuestPDF). Instead, the templates are written using normal HTML/CSS with specific placeholders that are to be replaced. For this, we use a helper tool wkhtmltopdf that stems the actual HTML -> PDF conversion.
It is therefore required to have the wkhtmltopdf binaries included in your PATH environment variable.
Usage is then very simple: Simply pick the wanted year and a format/template that is to be generated and hit Generate.
- Add more default templates
- Use batch mode PDF generation to significantly speed up the process