Simply Calenders Version History

Version 4.7

• Enhanced interface with XP Themes
• Grid Styles - Simple, Rounded Corners, 3D look
• Day Labels - more flexible, easier entry 
• 2 new templates - 5 Day Appointment Planner and Single Wide Column month calendar
• Optional extra pages with PDF import
• PDF files can now be used as graphics
• Improved PDF export

• • 4.7.1033 
  • 
    FIX: opening error message on some PCs resolved
    improved Copy Picture Files from this calendar to Graphics folder
  • 4.7.1044 (requires complete re-install)
    Windows Vista compatible Help System (chm) 
    Czech Events
    More nameday files - Greek, Czech
    Extra Swedish translations (program interface)
    Fix: Showing public holidays in red now functions correctly even when other fixed dates are selected (eg Christian) 
    Fix: Program should no longer hang when exporting at maximum resolution (only occurred with certain graphic cards)
  • 4.7.1053
    Enhanced installation - latest VB runtime files are installed (Thanks Mario)
  • 4.7.1054
    Fix: "Force Capitalisation of Month and Day Names" now functions correctly when language is set to "Default"
  • 4.7.1056
    Patch: Certain products by Computer Associates (CA AntiSpyware / CA PestPatrol / AOL Safety and Security Centre) 
    were preventing Simply Calenders being unpacked correctly. See FAQ 
  • 4.7.1057 Patch for CA problem partially localised for non-English locales
  • 4.7.1058 FIX (Thanks Paul and François)
    Error 5 Invalid Procedure Call or argument on opening program - resolved.
    This problem only occurred for a few users
  • 4.7.1060 FIX
    Template 45: printing now enabled
    Templates 29, 39 & 49:  Christian events in 2nd language now have correct character set (bilingual calendars)
    Templates 45 & 48: Shading option now enabled
    PDF file now released after importing
  • 4.7.1061
    A few corrections to Dutch events (Thanks Gerard)
    FIX: Command line mode error corrected
  • 4.7.1063
    FIX: Minicalendars in non western languages now have correct characters (Thanks Jarek)
    Virgen Guadalupe now correctly shown on 12 December (Thanks Richard)
  • 4.7.1064
    FIX: In multimonth mode, week numbers are now shown on correct date for preceding and following year (Thanks Annelie)
    

Version 4.6

• Additional templates
  Large Print Planner, Duplex Organiser,  Duplex Birthday, Birthday Planner, Festive Calendar
  The Large Print Planner is also ideally suited for CD jewel case calendars
• Template improvements
  eg suppression of extra row
• Sunset and sunrise times
  for almost anywhere in the world 
• Support for repeating events 
  every 3rd saturday, every 2nd Tuesday of month etc
• Option to add text and captions to thumbnail page
• Enhanced jewish features 
  full jewish year superimposed on civil year with appropriate month headers 
• New national events
  South African, Botswanan and Kenyan 
• Additional languages 
  Serbian (Cyrillic), Georgian, Hindi, Yiddish (Latin script) and Romansh
• Quick method of adding shading over more than one day 
  drag shading over several days
• New extended DST dates for USA and Canada.
  effective from 2007
• PDF exports include actual print size
• New default file location 
  Files will now be saved to My Documents\Simply Calenders for current user (unless you specify an alternative location)
  This will allow restricted users on Windows XP/2000/Vista to use Simply Calenders effectively
• EZTWAIN 3.09
  later version of scan support files

• • 4.6.897 Correction to French events
  • 4.6.898 FIX:  crash on selecting Reset Size and Position of Logo
  • 4.6.899
    Extra row on Right to Left template removed
    FIX: Pdf export failed (caused by earlier version of EZPdf.dll)         
  • 4.6.900 FIX: Headers drop down  selection on Font dialog was empty
  • 4.6.901 FIX Crash on aligning logo picture
                  FIX Week calendars exported incorrectly
  • 4.6.902  FIX Custom locations for sunrise/sunset did not allow 3 digit longitude
    

Version 4.5

• Icon driven menus
  Each menu item has a image representing that function. 
  This may be particularly helpful to non-English speakers. 
• Undo/Redo
  Click on Undo (or Ctrl+Z) to undo last action, click again to reverse undo
• 2 New Templates
  
  1. Variable start year calendar
     Start month specified by user ( eg March to February).
     Optional pictures for each month
  2. Birthday calendar
     Similar to the month strip calendar . "366 day- no year"
     Used for birthday reminders
     
• Line wrapping on Set Events
  eg National Events and Religious Events
• 5 Interface languages (Swedish added to English, French, Hungarian and Spanish)
  Swedish/Svenska translation - thanks to Janne Bild
• Updated Swedish namedays
  Thanks again to Janne Bild
• Enhanced right click text functions
• Unicode enabled (Windows XP, 2000 and NT only)
  Allows direct pasting of text in other alphabets directly into Simply Calenders
  eg you can now copy Japanese text from a web page or word processor, then paste into "Extra Text" of Japanese calendar
• Translations for calendars further extended and enhanced
  Christian (W) Events completed for Chinese, Korean, Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Welsh
  Eastern Orthodox Events now complete for Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian
• Optional Additional Eastern Orthodox Events
  (Serbian, Macedonian, English)
• Bug fix for Win95
  Some Open/Save file dialogs were hidden behind another window appearing to freeze program
  

  • Version 4.5.853 FIX
    English was incorrectly shown as unsupported langauge on some PCs where native language was not English
  • Version 4.5.855 FIX
    Double click on Front Page Text had no effect
    Error 13: Type Mismatch when set events were added to template 20
    " ... is not a valid folder" on opening program
  • Version 4.5.856 FIX
    On template 27, selecting Mark Easter  resulted in "Easter" being incorrectly printed one line lower
  • Version 4.5.859
    message regarding error 380 rewritten - more user friendly
    2 Portuguese typos corrected
  • Version 4.5.860
    Further Portuguese corrections
  • Version 4.5.861
    Support added for printers with more than 127 supported paper sizes (eg PDFMachine)
  • Version 4.5.862 FIX
    When using some combinations of fixed events, text could be run together
    

Version 4.4

• Background Colours
• Wheelmouse support
• 2 new duplex 3 month designs
• New Appointment Planner design (Week Organiser with appointment times)
• Improved day label capability on Itemised Organiser
• Faster loading of Font Dialog
• "Go to Month" on week planners

• • 4.4.773 adds Hungarian (magyar) interface, Hungarian Events and Hungarian namedays
    Thankyou to Jozsef Tamas Herczeg www.soft-trans.hu
  • 4.4.777 adds Spanish (español) interface and faster showing of "Find Character" dialog.
  • 4.4.779 adds many translations for Solstice/Equinox. Further Hungarian enhancements.
  • 4.4.783 several minor bug fixes
  • 4.4.784 Fix for (rare) crash while opening program (only reported for one user)

Version 4.3

• Multilingual interface (currently English / Français)
• New Styles (Prism - fold in 3 to have freestanding calendar)
• Improved interface
• Faciliatated entry of accented & special characters [© ® ™ £ € ¥]
• EZTWAIN 3.07
• Enhanced Edit functions
• Several minor bug fixes

• • 4.3.756 
    New margin options for duplex calendars, allowing full page pictures (where supported by printer)
    Both sides of duplex calendars now print  to PDF virtual printers
    New Month Planner template (featuring maximal area for writing)
    Extended Icelandic event
  • Bug Fix 4.3.757 
    On Maternity Organizer template, selecting "Sunday Start to Week" caused day names to be shown incorrectly
  • Bug Fix 4.3.760 
    On non-illustrated month planners, front page pictures were not saved in CLD file
  • Bug Fix 4.3.761 
    Where Windows language was neither English nor  French, selecting French for  program interface was ignored
  • Bug Fix 4.3.762 
    Finnish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese & Swedish National Events were not saved in CLD file
    

Version 4.2

• Accurate Moon Phases (with correction for Time Zone) 
• Solstices and Equinoxes
• Vietnamese and Japanese Events
• Chinese Lunar Events eg Chinese New Year
• Export to Desktop as Wallpaper
• Improved interface

Version 4.1

• Option to include picture for any day on grid month calendars
• Option to have more than one main picture on most calendars
• Optional Page of thumbnail pictures (12 month calendars & Week Planners)
• Academic Year calendars & Fiscal Year Calendars
• Character limit on Extra Text increased from 260 to 2048 characters
• Enhanced National Events (Belgian and French Canadian National Events)
• Option to suppress title
• Option to automatically highlight dates that have Events
• Option to shade weekends
• Option to automatically copy graphic files to Simply Calenders Graphics folder
• Improved formatting in some templates
• Improved "Calendar Properties" (more readable)
• Right click menu options on calendar block
• Translations for Western Christian and Eastern Orthodox events extended and improved
• Last used languages (2) remembered on Language menu for easy access
• A few minor bug fixes

Version 4.0

• Step by Step Calendar Creation Wizard
• Multi Month calendars (0 - 36 months)
• More templates
• 2nd picture eg for logo/banner
• Bilingual calendars
• Colour Schemes
• Almost all paper sizes where supported by printer (even A1...)
• Optional invisible grid lines
• Direct links from Help menu to Online Help

• Build 590 Fix: Nov Dec were not printing for Year 3
• Build 592 Fix: "Align this Page's Picture Size and Position to All Pages" was not working for 36 month calendars.
• Build 595 Fix: "Extra text" repositioning was not working on 36 month calendars
• Build 596 Fix: Printing grid calendars on Win95/98/ME resulted in dates being hidden (applied to some printers only)
• Build 597 Fix(2) : Style 26 did not print logo Picture did not print on year planners
• Build 598 Fix: Picture positions and sizes were not saved on year planners
• Build 600 Fix: On Multimonth calendars, logo picture could not be changed on front page
• Build 602 Fix: In some situations, when Windows language setting was not English, some calendar settings were not saved in CLD file
• Build 603 Fix: "New Year" in US Events was shown on 31 December
• Build 604 Option to override 4 MPixel limit on image files (if OS Windows NT, 2000 or XP)
• Build 605 Day Event quick entry now available for all years on multimonth 3 year calendars
• Build 606 Fix: "British National Events" had displayed incorrect (US) date for Mothers Day rather than UK date
• Build 622

  National Events for Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Finland added.
  Visual indication of Illustrated pages (Month/Week Number in Bold)
  Text for Promotional Message now stored in CLD file
  Some translations for "week"
  Option not to force capitalization for Months and Weekdays
  Font dialog shows progress during loading
  Improved Finnish translations
  Adjustable display font size for Character Select Dialog
  Fixes:
  All Papers supported by printer now stored in CLD File.
  FIX: Align Logo Picture works on Front Page.
  FIX: Promotional picture on both sides of Front Page of Strip Calendars
  FIX: Advent Calendar Front Page printing now works
  Fix: repeated error 302 on exporting Week Planner
  

• Build 622 Improved Swedish translations

Version 3.5

• New Templates

  • Week by week calendars (ISO 8601 Week No. or American week No.)
  • Drop-down double-sided month calendar
  • Year Planners by week
    (ISO 8601 Week No., American week No., or Saturday weeks for accommodation rental)
  • More month calendars with minicalendars ( last and next month)
  • Personalised maternity calendars
  • Advent calendars

• Sunday Only Weekend (option)
• Christian Events with optional Lent and Advent
• Individual cell shading
• Improved display of small fonts
• TIFF JPEG Compression (if EZTwain 3.04 installed)
• Day Label Quick Entry
• Command Line Options
• Multiline Promotional Message
• Sizeable/Placeable Picture on Duplex Calendars
• Placeable "Extra Text"
• Font Underline
• Separate font for Headers and Promotions
•  
• FIX for printing problem when Front Page has picture with border and Front Page Text font size >30
• Danish St Bededag date now correct
• FIX for error on attempting to select Front Page Text when no text is entered
• Norwegian National Events added
• FIX for Front Page Border Colour on Strip Calendars

Version 3.4

• National Events (calculated) for USA, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, Nederlands, Denmark & Iceland
• Extended British Events
• Improved formatting of Day Labels
• Improved formatting of "Right to Left" Calendar
• Improved Printer dialog (Collate, Reverse Order and Printer Settings button)
• Week Numbers - European (ISO 8601), US and UK Inland Revenue
• Cover Page Designer
• Day Labels for Year Planner
• Highlight Colour for special days
• New 150% and 200% Zoom Settings (allowing high resolution exports)
• 12 Month Overview and Month Selection
• More intuitive picture selection
• No need to "Apply" for each month (All changes committed on OK or Apply)
• Picture size reset if new picture selected
• Bug Fixes

  • Default picture position on strip calendar corrected
  • Month Names on menus no longer shown as ??? when Regional Setting is Russian, Greek etc
  • Opening calendar now uses correct character set when Windows Regional Setting is Russian, Greek etc

Version 3.3

• Improved Navigator (Drop down list for month selection, roll-on to next/previous year)
• Support for Eastern Orthodox Old Calendarists (Julian Calendar)
• Easier selection of Picture or Calendar Block using Edit Menu
• Orientation of Landscape Calendars remains landscape when exported to PDF
• Paper size stored in CLD file
• NEW Illustrated Year Planner Template

• • 3.3.384
  • Option to set User Default Language (different to system default)
    Simply Calenders Default printer
    When printer is set by "Simply Calenders", then this printer will be remembered when "Simply Calenders" is next opened.
  • Daylight Saving (summer Time) dates for Europe and Australasia
    (Versions 3.3.378 and earlier supported N American Daylight Savings only)
    More complete translations for Christian events
    "Toned down" moons (gray)
    
  • 3.3.385 Microsoft bug workaround: "Disappearing picture when border is selected" This issue resolved in this release. Applied only to certain printers under Win 95/98/ME
  • 3.3.386
    Split pages on "Picture Calendar" when image orientation is portrait now corrected
    Catalan weekdays abbreviations corrected on year planners
    
  • 3.3.388 Ash Wednesday/Shrove Tuesday predictions now OK.
    in earlier versions showed both Ash Wednesday and Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) ONE week late
    Spelling errors in German "Christian Events" corrected
    
  • 3.3.389 Easter/Pesach bug corrected
    (Easter/Pesach month incorrect on Year Planner 2 and Illustrated Year Planner)

Version 3.2

• Three New Templates

• Right to Left
  4 year planner
  Picture month calendar
  

• Move and resize pictures - Drag'N'Drop
• Move and resize Calendar Block - Drag'N'Drop
• User Preferences remembered (calendar style & fonts )
• User Defined Day Labels (optional) eg birthdays, special events
• Add Events to calendar dates
• Christian (Western) Events
• Eastern Orthodox Events (new calendar)
• Jewish Events
• Islamic Events

These are calculated for year selected & displayed in appropriate language.

Version 3.1

• Improved scanner and printer support
• Integral image editor ("The Darkroom")
• TIF, PNG image formats now supported
• Additional 39 languages supported
• Export to PDF, TIF, JPG, BMP, HTML (ready for net)
• Moon Phases (optional)
• Daylight Saving "hour change" (optional)
• Saturday Only Weekend (optional)

Version 2

• Multilingual
• Saturday/Sunday start to week
• Roman Numerals for year - MMII (optional )
• When is Ramadan?
• Integral scanning (TWAIN compliant)
• Endorsement with your Company/Club/Organisation (optional)
• Improved user interface
• Changing printer settings no longer alters system default

** These have all been free upgrades to existing registered users of "Simply Calenders" **