Platonic Calendar Script-fu

saulgoode · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:42 pm **(#41)**

PhotoMaster wrote:

Is there a calendar script that gives these shapes??? Or am I missing something??

I started a discussion on it back at this post. I should've probably started a new thread but I wasn't really expecting such a prodigious response. :clap

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:09 am **(#42)**

The topic has been split.

saulgoode · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:07 am **(#43)**

Bob63 wrote:

Here's a trick for non-picture backgrounds.
Open a new 400x400px image with white background and leave blank.
Render the calendar using this background.
When the calendar is complete, go into the layers dialog and turn off the background, all of the calendar text layers and the border layer. Only the calendar backgrounds should be visible.
Merge all visible layers. (If you want, you can turn this new layer off, turn on all the text layers and merge them also, which is what I did; I ended up with a border layer, a text layer, a calendar-background layer, and a page-background layer.)
Select the calendar-background layer.
Choose the Select-by color tool :colsel

and click on the calendar background area.
Now you can use the Blend tool to place a gradient in the calendars, or fill with a pattern!

I would also point out that the paths for the pentagons for each of the months can be found in the Paths Dialog (along with the paths for the four tabs). One could create a selection from all of these paths (holding down SHIFT while clicking on the red Path To Selection button :select

can be used to combine them).

Probably no easier than your suggestion, merely an alternative.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:37 am **(#44)**

I didn't know you could do that with paths. I've been merging paths to be able to do the same thing. Doing it your way, I don't have to make duplicates if I want some separate and others joined.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:11 pm **(#45)**

This is my first test (with no script). I am going to download the script and try it out!

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:10 pm **(#46)**

I downloaded the latest script and when I run it, with facets enabled, I get the following error. Then if I click on any layer, after clicking ok in the error box, the image comes up beautifully. Very odd indeed.

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I ran the script once and got the image, then again without the facets, to get the fold lines and filled in the tabs. This is my result, after lowering the fold layer.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

That is way beyond cool Greg. I will be interested to see it all folded up. Hope you don't get tied in knots with the scotch tape the way I did. lol. very pretty.....

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:44 pm **(#48)**

My original image put together. I wasn't going to show how horribly I put it together, but this is it. And I did get my fingers taped together. I have to go through my art case for double stick mounting tape for the next one!

saulgoode · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:01 pm **(#49)**

PhotoMaster wrote:

I downloaded the latest script and when I run it, with facets enabled, I get the following error. Then if I click on any layer, after clicking ok in the error box, the image comes up beautifully. Very odd indeed.

Attachment:

Platonic Error.jpg

I ran the script once and got the image, then again without the facets, to get the fold lines and filled in the tabs. This is my result, after lowering the fold layer.

Oops. There should be a space between "facet-image" and "channel" (not a hyphen). I will provide an updated version tomorrow. I just upgraded my system this morning haven't yet set up the synchronicity with my Chiselapp repository.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:21 am **(#50)**

Hey Saul, You rock! I made the change in the script and it's problem solved!! The script is running perfectly!!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

LOL. It is still pretty Greg.
I have done 4 now and each one gets better. I tried to tape them on the inside so the tape wouldn't show, (forget that) I thought about stapling. I might go out one of these days to check out that book binding tape to see what it looks like. I am determined to do a perfect one. My last one was pretty close but I don't like the look of the tape. Also, for me the dark colors don't work cuz the black gets rubbed off some on the folds and looks icky. I did a black one with white text.

saulgoode · **Posted:** Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:39 pm **(#52)**

A new version of the script has been released and is ready for testing. Improvements are for the most part merely aesthetic but it required a significant amount of recoding (so there may be errors).

List of changes:

Month names are now normalized to all be the same size (previously months with short names such as "May" would be much larger than longer-named months such as "November").
A channel is created which permits easy selection of all of the facets.
A channel is created which permits easy selection of all of the text.
The default for the "Edge length" option is now "400" which should work for printing out on either normal letter size (8.5"x11") or DIN A4 sheets at a resolution of 300 DPI.
A new option for placing the year underneath the calendar on a facet has been added.

Here is a sampling which shows the result of the various banner layout choices:

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mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4045

Working great on Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks again, Saul!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I got it too and it works beautiful in Windows 7...... su-eet, or sweet..... thanks Saul.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:21 pm **(#55)**

I can confirm Win 7 works!! I am in awe!

MareroQ · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:31 pm **(#56)**

Everything works great - except the switch "Sunday first"

saulgoode · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:49 pm **(#57)**

MareroQ wrote:

Everything works great - except the switch "Sunday first"

Thanks for pointing that out. I have updated the information at http://chiselapp.com/user/saulgoode/repository/script-fu/wiki?name=sg-platonic-calendar.

The change made was to replace "TRUE" with "sunday?" in the calls to sg-calendar-year (around lines 173 and 305 in sg-platonic-calendar.scm) as shown in the code below (if you'd rather modify your script than download the updated version):

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      (set! date-layer (car (script-fu-sg-calendar month-image 
                                                   month-layer
                                                   lang
                                                   month
                                                   year
                                                   sunday? ; Sunday first 
                                                   letters-in-day
                                                   layout ; (0=allow 6, 1=force 6, 2=wrap to w1, 3=wrap to w5)
                                                   text-font
                                                   number-font
                                                   font-size% ; text size as % of cell size
                                                   justify? ; right justify single-digit numbers
                                                   0 ; no borders
                                                   '(0 0 0) ; border color (ignored)
                                                   gravity ))) 

MareroQ · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:35 pm **(#58)**

In sg-calendar.scm it works well, but in sg-Platonic-calendar.scm unfortunately for me it's still not

saulgoode · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:55 pm **(#59)**

MareroQ wrote:

In sg-calendar.scm it works well, but in sg-Platonic-calendar.scm unfortunately for me it's still not

Oops. I missed a spot. The version at http://chiselapp.com/user/saulgoode/repository/script-fu/wiki?name=sg-platonic-calendar should now behave.

MareroQ · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:09 pm **(#60)**

Thank you for your rapid response - now it is all very well

ps.

... but why now every month is 31 days?

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