https://github.com/mattvenn/printable-diary
https://github.com/mattvenn/printable-diary
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mattvenn/printable-diary
- Owner: mattvenn
- Created: 2015-01-18T18:09:13.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-02-09T21:17:14.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-01T18:09:57.620Z (2 months ago)
- Language: TeX
- Size: 2.32 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Printable Diary
Don't have a smart phone but want to continue making use of your online (google)
calendar?
The idea here is to print a diary, one month at a time that also includes your
todo list (trello), business cards, blank and graph paper, nice title photo etc.
It is very rough around the edges. Currently all done with shell scripts, pdftk
and pdfnup. Everytime I print a diary it gets a bit better. I may move to
[pypdf2](https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/PdfFileReader.html) in the future.
# Requirements
* for todo list stuff: pandoc (maybe xelatex too), trello python library
* pdftk, pdfnup
# Making it
## Cover image
put an image called cover.png in the directory
## Biz cards
these are tear off business cards. I made an svg doc called biz.svg you can
modify.
## Calendar
go to your google calendar, click 'more', 'print', then choose 4 weeks in
landscape. Then 'save as'.
Make a symlink to it called 'current_cal.pdf':
ln -s calendar_2015XXXXX.pdf current_cal.pdf
I'd love to automate this but have no idea how to interact with all the
javascript on the google calendar page.
## Trello
Move trellokeys.blank to trellokeys.py and add your API details.
You can run ./fetchtasks.py to test it's working. It will download all tasks in
the 'Doing' set of the 'tasks' board. Change the file if you have to.
## Generating all the pdfs
run prep.sh:
./prep.sh
you should now have a load of pdfs in your directory:
biz.pdf blank.pdf cal_1.pdf cal_2.pdf cal_3.pdf cal_4.pdf graph.pdf cover.pdf todo.pdf
## Collating into a single pdf for double sided printing
This collates everything in the right order, rotating everything apart from the
calendars.
./collate.sh
Now you have: cal_a4.pdf and cal_a5.pdf for printing. Print double sided, short
edge binding. Or first all odd pages then back in the printer and even pages.
## Bind it
I use the [5 hole pamphlet stitch](http://www.designsponge.com/2013/03/bookbinding-101-five-hole-pamphlet-stitch.html) to hold it all together.
# Todo
* can embedded images in svg be used to do rotation of images for title/biz?
* now using svglue for cover page
* reverse pics on the business cards
* select pics from a pool somewhere
# Log
## Mon Jan 19 15:23:58 GMT 2015
2 sided print from chrome the 2nd sides were flipped. No 2 sided print option from ubuntu. Printed 1,3,5 on laser printer with ubuntu. Put in correct order, with cover image towards me on the tray. Print 2,4,6 and all in correct order.
## what I did Sat 17/01/15
print side1nup.pdf on 3 sheets
then put in the other side up, so that cover image is at top of printer
what happened:
second set of pages were wrong way round. printer prints 'upside down' so that the bottom of the page is closest to the print head after printing. I think it would be ok if both put in the same way.