But by using a provided template file to jump-start your publishing, and learning a core subset of commands, you can learn the basics to produce a journal with only a little effort. Scribus is a full-featured program, which means it can be complicated and intimidating. Publishing Using Scribus by Dave Tribby ( tutorial describes how to create amateur journals using the free open-source desktop publishing application Scribus. Parts of this script are taken from my Monthl圜alendar script for Scribus.

You can easily change the text styles, colors and fills of month title, weekday names, week numbers, weekends, holidays, normal dates, special dates, vacation and grids.Option to generate a text frame at the bottom with the holiday dates and texts.Option to draw an empty image frame within the top and / or left 'offset' area and to get an 'inner' margin between this frame and the calendar.You can position the 12-months calendar within your document exactly where you want it.Number of months per row determines the layout of the 12-month calendar.

Automatic calculation of the holiday dates for each calendar year. See the example holiday.txt-file for the layout. The 'holidays.txt' file from Monthl圜alendar script can be used here.

Option to import holidays, special days and vacation dates from a 'holidays.txt' file.

Option to show week numbers with (or without) a week numbers heading in your local language.

Saturdays and Sundays will be printed in separate colors (many colors can be changed afterwards with Edit - Colors and Fills).

Calendar year, start month and week starting day are to be given.

You can change fonts of many items afterwards in the Styles menu (Edit - Styles).

You can choose your font from the list of fonts available on your system.

You can choose between more than 20 languages (default is English).Can be used to create credit card sized calendar, school year calendar, wall calendar, etc. Generates a 12-months calendar on one page in pdf or image format.

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