Calendar frustration

[craesz]

I am forced, through my cell phone, to use Google calendars. I suppose everyone is these days. I am frustrated with the way in which Google will only print a month at a time and the format of that month will not provide all the information of the event unless I reduce the text size to a point that it is virtually unusable. I also use Lightning and KOrganizer (linking, of course, to my Google calendar). Lightning will print the full amount of data but then the month spans two pages. KOrganizer has a better print interface than either Google or Lightning, but it has the same limitation on printing the calendar that Google seems to have.

I searched the forums and found that Gwenview will print calendars.... nope, tried that and it prints a simple display calendar (nice to put your own pictures on them, but I need this for work - not play)

Is anyone aware of an application that will take the information from my Google calendar and print a month on a single sheet in a readable form?

Thanks.

[Neal ManBear]

Most mail clients have a calendar. Have you tried any of them?

[ElCuervo]

  I just went to my calendar to make sure, but I don't see this problem at all. All I have to do is change the view in Google to day, week or month and then Print, and what I see is what I get. Is that the method you've tried?

[craesz]

This is what I am talking about



The names are truncated and the rest of the description is too....
Just so you know, I normally have an event with the name of the individual and what the event concerns:

"John Doe - mtg @ client's"
"Mary Smith deadline doc supp"
"Ellen XXXXX expert deadline"
"Smith, Doe, Johnson, Walker doc due"

[knome]

Google Calendar doesn't do word-wrapping  

Yahoo Calendar is very similar to Google but does a better job of word-wrapping for printing.

Edit: ... are you stuck with Google with the cellphone forcing thingy? Sounds painful!

[Archie]

I knew there was something else I forgot when I wiped off my XP VM. Now, I have no way of syncing with my iPhone calendar. Maybe I should start using the Google service. I gotta look into this a little bit more.

[craesz]

Google Calendar doesn't do word-wrapping  

Yahoo Calendar is very similar to Google but does a better job of word-wrapping for printing.

Edit: ... are you stuck with Google with the cellphone forcing thingy? Sounds painful!

Yep. No word-wrapping. Stupid isn't it? Like this hasn't been around since.... the 80s....

Yes, I am stuck with it. Android phone.... I refuse to play with iXXX products due to their lock-in policies and no open source and a Win7 phone would be worse. I need something that I can carry with me and use in remote locations. Stuck with Android it seems then as that is how it works. I'd go with some form of standalone calendar (ala the old Palm - loved it - but I think they are now doing the same thing with WebOS) but I don't think one exists.

If I could just find a calendar program that will print the data from my Google calendar using the word-wrap, I'd be good.

[craesz]

I knew there was something else I forgot when I wiped off my XP VM. Now, I have no way of syncing with my iPhone calendar. Maybe I should start using the Google service. I gotta look into this a little bit more.

I don't have an iPhone but I'm pretty sure that they can use the Google calendar service.

[knome]

@ craesz

Instead of Google Calendar, have you looked at trying a Google Documents Spreadsheet? I've had a quick look and there are loads of Calendar Templates available. Word-wrapping is functional in Google Spreadsheets and when you select Print it offers to save and/or print as a PDF document.

It may take a bit of work to find and configure something that works for you but it's the only solution I can think of if you're stuck with using Google.

[craesz]

knome:

I have no idea how I would access that directly from my cell phone.... this is an absolute requirement as I am the only one that can add/change my calendar. When I am in a remote location, I need the phone to access it. I like your thought but that adds another layer of complexity to something that shouldn't need it.

[knome]

knome:

I have no idea how I would access that directly from my cell phone.... this is an absolute requirement as I am the only one that can add/change my calendar. When I am in a remote location, I need the phone to access it. I like your thought but that adds another layer of complexity to something that shouldn't need it.

When you Sign In to your Google Calendar, do you get options to go to Gmail, Documents, Photos, Etc? All these options are available from a regular internet browser (Firefox) session so I assume you get similar on a cellphone. I don't have a phone to test this  

Edit: Does this help?...

http://www.google.com/mobile/docs/

[craesz]

I'll try that and see if it will have some manner to just import the data to a spreadsheet. If not, then no. I'm not keen on having to double enter all the same information just to accomplish word-wrapping. I still can't figure out why the calendar itself won't do it. Seems like an obvious feature....

[robert_300]

I've been through heaps of calendars trying to get a nice solution for both offline use and synchronization with google calendar (work uses this).  The best solution IMHO is Evolution.

Robert

[craesz]

Evolution?? really?? I'll go check...

[craesz]

Evolution word wraps but the monthly print only allows portrait and I can't find a way to shut off the color printing when I have a B&W printer only. Any ideas?