GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 470934
Creating & Printing new Page views suggestion
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:12:04 UTC
A brief description of what *I* would like to see: a) and b) below printed in landscape orientation. a) Monthly calendar printed on one side of the page. I would like the calendar to start with the current week, Monday first, five work days across + Sat and Sun as half days. I would like the monthly calender to show 5 consecutive weeks. For example, I don't, and I think most other people don't, need to see appointments that have passed if they are carrying a paper calendar. Currently, if today is Aug 27, I would like that to show on the first line, not somewhere near the bottom where I would be unable to write or pencil in a future appointment for Sept 20. N.B. this calendar should be printed by counting weeks i.e the day printed is the 29th the week starting the 27th should be shown. b) A trifold or 3 panel printout for the other side of the page. Panel 1, would show for the day of the printout, a daily appointment sheet with (set to 1/2 hour, 1/4 hour, whatever) time slots and currently scheduled appointments. I have included an alternative Panel 1 in the attachment. Sometimes work etc requires lots of 'meets and greets'. With a full appointment schedule, a person my want to print their calendar daily. At other times, however, they may not be as busy, have a lot of slack time, or have set aside time to actually get some work done. Then they only need a weekly panel, set out something like I have shown in "Bill's Slack Schedule". Panel 2, would show phone no.s and/or URL for the contact names listed in the appointment dialogue. This would require being able to add a contact name field to the new appointments dialogue. Contact names would be selected at the time of scheduling a new appointment. Panel 3, a configurable TODO list like already exists. I would fold the two-sided printout along the trifold dividing lines (or spaces); fold it once more in half; and carry it around with me in my hip or shirt pocket. By the end of the day (or week depending how busy I was) I would have handwritten notes all over it, which I could then transfer to the appropriate category (i.e. appointments, new contacts, TODOs, or notes). Bill Case, Fedora 7, Linux 2.6
Created attachment 94477 [details] correcting the mime type Mathew Barnes asked to see a mockup of the suggestion Written in OOo Writer *.odt
Did you try after mailer printing was rewritten ?
I haven't made any progress on this yet. If I can find time I'd like to take a month to just focus on printing bugs, especially in the calendar.
Glad to see that someone is going to take this on. The only reason I use M$ Outlook these days is to once a week print myself a pocket paper calendar. M$ is close but still not exactly what I want. Thanks.
Got'cha. Other than perhaps emails, Evolution's printouts need a complete overhaul and facelift. Just that we're a bit short on manpower these days.
To Matthew Barnes; If you plan to undertake this project, I would like to offer to help. My programming skills are very rudimentary but I do have some. Rather than waste your time getting a newbie started, I would be happy to write, edit and/or test for you -- or anything else that might be of use. Regards Bill P.S. I didn't offer sooner because I have had a bad cold for the last 10 days.
If you do tackle calendar printing, I would like to see the ability to set page size with File/Page Setup so that it prints a small page to fit in my daytimer and then prints a week at a time. Almost any format that will fit on the page (roughly 4.5" x 6.5") and shows appointments for the week would work for me. I don't have programming skills, but would be glad to help test. Barbara Tobias barbtobias09@gmail.com
Is this Request for Enhancement still alive? If so I would be happy to muck about seeing what I could do. What modules, templates or whaterver for printing and for forms should I be looking at to get started? I want to take a look at what exists first to decide whether it is beyond my skills or not.
Just sending myself a reminder that this request is still alive. Have offered to help on several occasions. There has been some improvements in the latest Evolution 3.0.2 -- but not by much. For example, the view now lets you scroll through the monthly calendor 1 week at a time. But the printed copy only goes by full month rather than 5 weeks starting with the current week. The font size for the date numbers are too small to read. They seem to be 3 pnt when they need to be 8 or 9 point. The printing requires landscape which is used by the printer, but the print preview is not rotated and is presented as portrait. The Daily or Weekly view needs a whole extra view as shown in my mock up. I really want this. Or I want a way that a user can create his own print view.
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