Pyxis Calendar is a PC and Apple Mac application that automates the task of creating custom calendars and year planners. 

Pyxis Calendar makes it incredibly easy to make a beautiful looking calendar.

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Both PC and Apple Mac versions are available

Seven different output options are currently available

1. Create months only - this is the default setting

2. Create a calendar suitable for wire binding, with images on top and months underneath

3. Create an imposed magazine of months only for use with a single back image

4. Create an imposed magazine with images and months combined

5. Create two separate documents, one with months and another with images for use in another application.

6. Create a Year Planner with months as rows

7. Create a Year Planner with months side by side in 4 columns and 3 rows for landscape output or 3 columns and 4 rows, where a portrait output size has been selected. 

FEATURES

Special Days

Import a Special Day file for your region. This is available to download (from the www.pyxis.ie website) for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Or you can manually enter Public Holidays and other Special Days. Note that special days can be assigned an optional Job Reference. If this job reference is entered prior to creating a calendar, only Special Days associated with that job reference will be used, together with Special Days that have no job reference. In this way, you would typically enter common special days without a job reference, and these would be used with each calendar. If no Job Reference is entered, all special days will be merged with the calendar or year planner being created.

Custom Size

Choose any output size up a massive 5.75m x 5.75m. Note that you will need a powerful computer to produce a calendar that incldues images, at this size!

No Proof Reading of Calendar Months

With Pyxis Calendar, you will never need to proof-read your calendar to ensure each month has the correct number of days and that they are in the correct order. This is guaranteed. The only thing you need to make certain is that you choose the correct year to start with!

Custom Colours

You can create an unlimited number of colours that can be applied to fonts and backgrounds as desired.

Alignment Options

Text can be aligned horizontally or vertically. 

Font Options

The first release has just 8 fonts to choose from: Times Roman and Helvetica in each style: plain, italic, bold and bold italic. Any font size can be entered.

Inner and Outer Grid border

Optionally choose to separate days with a grid. Grid lines can be any weight and colour. An outer grid border can also be set independently.

Alternating Row Colours

Optionally choose background colours for each row of days in a month.

Text Case Optons

Choose from Full Uppercase, Lowercase, Initial Capital or Abbreviation for both weekday names and month names. The abbreviation option will shorten the name to three characters, each in uppercase (JAN, FEB, MAR, etc for months and MON, TUE, WED, etc for days . . .)

Border Width Optons

Each border, left, right, top and bottom can be set independently.

Merging Images

Simply select a folder containing images. They need to be set to the correct rotation. The application will automatically scale them in proportion to fill the top image space and then crop off anything outside that area. So it is a good idea to prepare them to the approximate shape / size first and the application will then automatically do the rest. And you can be reassured that every month and image will be positioined exactly the same on each page.

Image Resolution

Four image quality settings are available: Web, Good, High and Max. The High setting should be the correct choice for most digital printers. The Max setting will increase the file size significantly and is best suited for high resolution lithographic printing where line screens of 300lpi or higher are being used. In circumstances where the original image quality is medium or poor, the Good option is likely to provide the best results. We recommend that you do a test of each of the four settings to reassure yourself that the option selected best suits your printing environment. Note that all internal preview images will be displayed at Web Quality, regardless of the PDF output quality selection.

Extra Image or Logo

You place an extra image or logo at any location on the output sheet. Where a logo or image pdf file contains multiple pages, each page will be imposed in order, and then repeated if there are less than 12 pages. This option can be used, for example, to merge mini previous and following months, alongside the current month. Note that if the file type selected is a PDF, it must be pre sized for the space allocated, while other image types will be automatically scaled to fit the space dictated by the max width and max height values entered by the user.

Extra Text Option

Each border, left, right, top and bottom can be set independently.

Save and Re-Open

Each calendar setting can be saved and re-opened. If the latest setting has not been saved, the user will be notified and presented with an option to save the current calendar file during the application exit process.

Customize Default Colour Set

Each custom colour can be added to the default colour set. The user will be notified when exiting if any new colours exist and will be given the option to add those to the default set.

Export with Crop Marks

To add crop marks to your calendar, often required for commercial printing, simply tick the Crop Marks  check-box (located on the PDF Export tab)

Download Example Calendar

Download Example Planner

Wirebound pages Example 210mm x 420mm

Below is a version of the above calendar resized to 210 x 300 with other font and colour settings.

It also shows custom text placed on the image section, in this case copyright information has been placed above the image.

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Both PC and Apple Mac versions are available

Download Special Day Files to Import into Pyxis Calendar

Both PC and Apple Mac versions are available