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This page is dedicated to WinCal Users, all the
FAQs &/or questions of general interest will be regularly posted
on this page, please feel free to add/ask WinCal Team your
questions and we will be happy to answer you and also post them on
this page (if appropriate).
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1. I was trying WinCal the other night, after
entering the details in the New Calendar Wizard, it showed me the
generated calendar with my photograph and calendar months on it. I
got a little confused as to what should I do after this ? Please
explain? |
WinCal Team: For a beginner, the Process of
Calendar design in WinCal is as follows:
Use the New Calendar Wizard, pick a template you
like, Click Finish. A calendar based on template will be generated
for you. Double click on each of the images used, specify your
image. Double Click on the Calendar Objects and Choose the month
and year you want to have for these. Your new Calendar is built.
If you do not like templates to make your calendar you can use New
Calendar Page Wizard as described in next few points.
Use the New Calendar Page Wizard to enter the basic parameters
for your calendar. These are the Image (Photo) to use. Number of
Months, starting month, and year, background etc.
Click on Finish, the Wizard will generate the calendar with one
page for you.
Both the Wizards (New Calendar and New Calendar Page) take you to
the Design Mode after generating calendar/calendar page, where you
can further customize the calendar or leave it as it is. Design
mode of WinCal is the Power of WinCal where you can customize your
calendar easily by setting/changing simple options.
After your customization, you can press the Preview button to
see how the calendar will be printed.
Press Print button to print it.
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You can also refer to Chapter 4 -
Editing of the online help to learn all the editing features of
WinCal.
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2. I have an older version of WinCal how do I upgrade? |
WinCal Team: Upgrading WinCal is really very
simple, first, UnInstall existing copy (see readme.txt that
comes with software on how to do uninstall).Install the new version (reboot may be required after
installing the new version).
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3. I am a professional photographer, I
extend my services to maternity hospitals and photograph newborn
babies. I want to be able to change the calendar settings as per
my country and be able to quickly make calendars with the newborn
babies photograph in them, have calendar specific to my country.
Is there a way to do this? |
WinCal Team: Yes, you can make a few
calendars with different designs, change the calendar properties
as per your country's requirements, save and print them. Use these
calendar printouts to show them to parents of newborn babies while
taking the order. To deliver the Calendars ordered, use these
saved Calendar designs as templates to make new one, i.e., open
them using File-Open menu, double click on the photograph and
change the properties to replace the photograph with a new one,
then use File Save As menu option to save the calendar with new
name. In most situations you are likely not to change the calendar
object at all, as you have already made all those changes while
making the templates. This will save you considerable time and
effort and achieve your purpose of making Calendars with ease.
In Version 4.0, we have added the feature to save your default
calendar settings, it is available only if you are a registered
user of WinCal (you have paid the license fees). Now you can even
use the wizard to generate a 12 page 12 month calendar in 5
minutes.
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4. Is it possible to make large size
calendars using WinCal? |
WinCal Team: Yes, as long as you have
the hardware to print those sizes. The maximum size of the page WinCal allows is limited by the maximum allowed by your printing
printing device. Please refer to chapter 20 of the user
documentation for details. If you have a printer that is capable
of printing photo-quality A3 pages, you can design A3 sized
Calendars in WinCal.
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5. I want to save the Image of the
Calendar page I designed and save it to e-mail to my family, is it
possible with this product? |
WinCal Team: Yes, with Version 4.4 the
Image quality has been fixed for the drafts, but you need to be
registered user for it to be enabled. You can send the images
saved at 300 DPI to anyone you like.
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6. For some unknown reason (may be a
virus) I am not able to open and read the on-line compiled HTML
help file that comes with the package, what can I do? |
WinCal Team: First get a good Internet
Firewall and Virus Scanner, scan your computer for viruses and any
unauthorized remote connections. If it still does not work, you
can use the PDF version of the same document which is now
available from:
www.techsysconsultants.com.au/wincal480.pdf and use this
instead, contents of two are same.
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7. I have a large format printer which
is capable of printing A2, A3 and A3+ size pages. But when I use WinCal to print using the supplied templates, the images appear to
have low resolution (pixelated). What is the best way to print on
these large format printers? |
WinCal Team: You can use the templates
for making/printing calendars of the same size i.e., if the
template is designed for A4 size it SHOULD NOT be used to print on
A3. If you do so, WinCal will scale the A4 sized template onto A3
which will result into pixelated appearance of Images on
printouts. For best results you should start a fresh (design from
a blank page of A3 size). If you do this images will not appear
pixelated. Alternatively you should use the template that has the
same paper size defined when it was made.
When you use a A4/Letter sized template and your printer setup is
defined as ready to print on a A3 page scaling will happen.
Version 4.5 has some large format templates either use them or you
can design your own easily using the existing templates. If you
copy and paste all the calendar objects and put in your image
using the Image tool the resulting printout will be fine.
On the other hand if you use a A3 template to make a calendar and
print it on a A4 page you will not see any problem with the image.
Ideally you should only use the template which matches your paper
size on which you are printing.
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8. I only have a large format printer
attached to my system. When I try to save the calendar page image,
WinCal will not save the image and keeps complaining about the
resolution being > 300. What can be done? |
| WinCal Team: Some large format printer
have minimum resolution of 600 dpi, hence WinCal is not able to
save the image. If your printer does not support 300 dpi, you can
simply install another printer and use that while saving the image
of the page. For example you can install HP 932C and choose that
as the printer in the print-setup dialog of WinCal, choose printer
properties and set its quality to Normal. Now Choose File Save
Calendar Page Image as...and save the page image. The resulting
image will be 300 dpi. |
9. Does WinCal work on MAC? |
WinCal Team: No, Only Microsoft windows
operating systems - Windows XP-Home, Windows XP-Professional,
Windows 2000, Windows ME and Windows 98 are supported and software
runs only on these platforms.
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10. How can I make a Calendar in my
language? |
| WinCal Team: Use WinCal Version 4.6
(4.5), With Version 4.5 it is possible to make calendars in your
Language of Choice. Please see samples gallery for some examples
of Calendars made using this version for different languages. |
11. I am using Version 4.5 and when I
use any of the supplied templates the Calendar is drawn by WinCal
with all the days showing correctly in my language, However the
Month Name is still in English Why ? |
| WinCal Team: When the template is
translated to your language, the month name is not reset
intentionally by WinCal as WinCal has a feature which lets you
overwrite the generated month name. For the Month Name to be reset, you can either double click on
the month invoking its properties and then choose a different
month, when you click on Ok, the Month Name will be shown
correctly in your language.
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12. I am trying WinCal 4.6 and my
Windows language is (e.g. English), different to one I want to
make Calendar in - (e.g. French), How can this be done ? |
| WinCal Team: Simply invoke the Control
Panel Regional and Language Options of Windows and Change the
Language to the one you want to make Calendars in (French in this
example). You may need to restart WinCal to pick up change in
language. |
13. I have already created lots of
templates using version 4.5.0? Will I loose them if I upgrade to
new version 4.6.0? Can my templates be upgraded ? Is so, how? |
WinCal Team: Even when you have a
Version 4.5.0 or templates made using version 4.3.0, all can be
easily upgraded, the new version 4.6.0 silently upgrades all your
templates and Calendars as you open them (Supported back versions
up to 4.3.0 only), What this means is you can upgrade without any
worry to the new version.
The way to upgrade your template is also very simple:
1. Start
WinCal, from the new calendar wizard select the template you want
to upgrade (at this point the File Selection dialog will not show
any preview of earlier version templates). After selecting the
template click on Finish to generate a calendar using this
template.
2. Update the Images in the template with the ones you want WinCal
to Show in Preview for this template.3. Select File Save as design template....and you are done. The
template is upgraded to version 4.6.0. Now whenever you click on
the this template in the file browser, it will show the preview as
the first page was when template was saved.
You can use the same method to upgrade your saved Calendars, Until
you upgrade the templates and calendars this version will not show
a preview of them in the file selection dialogs. |
14. I am trying WinCal 4.6, but when I
try and open a Calendar that I designed when I evaluated version
4.1.0 - It does not open it and I get an error message saying
Unexpected file format as shown below:
What should I do?
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| WinCal Team: Version 4.6.0 is backward
compatible with Versions up to 4.3.0, any templates or calendars
generated using earlier version are not usable anymore. The best
option for you is to re-create those, as making a new calendar is
also equally easy in WinCal. |
15. I am trying WinCal 4.6, installed
it successfully but when I run it I get a error saying DLL
mismatch or wrong version, what do I do? |
| WinCal Team: If this is happening to
you, please download the
DLLPACK.ZIP, it contains most of the DLLs
that are required by WinCal and are also normally present on every
machine, they are not included in the original download to keep
the download size small. Download this file and unzip its contents in the same folder
(directory) that you have installed WinCal in. If you still get a
error please contact us immediately detailing the error message
and the missing DLL so that we can fix the issue and help you
evaluate/use the software. Email us at the address at the bottom
of this page.
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16. I want to use WinCal and export the
Calendar Month Image generated by it in another image
editing/mixing creative suite of application, 300 DPI is not
enough for me. Is there a way to generate the calendar so that
when imported in other package I get best results? |
WinCal Team: There certainly is a way,
If you want to use a calendar month object image in an image
editing package, say of size 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch, you need to
design the calendar month in WinCal much larger to this size, say
a full page covering just the month you want, edit its properties
to what you want them to be, save it at 300 DPI and when you
import it in the other package and place it in 1.5 X 1.5 inch
reduced placeholder, you are effectively putting an image with
much larger DPI, this should suit your purpose.
If you want to use 12 Calendar months in the other package, simply
repeat this 12 times for each month. Hope this solves your
problem. |
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