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Advanced Printing in Google Calendar

Nick Spacek [PersonRank 1]

Friday, November 27, 2009
14 years ago4,823 views

I've been semi-active on this thread: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=3fb9ef9350858d35
...for a little while. I figured out a way a while back to print multiple months out of Google Calendar by munging the PDF request URL. It wasn't really that hard to figure out, but I haven't seen other people mention it.

Anyways, since it seemed like people recently were having a hard time figuring out how to do it, I set about to write some sort of helper for it. I was just going to go with Greasemonkey, but decided something cross-browser would be better.

I wrote a bookmarklet that hauls in a script, which hauls in jQuery+jQuery UI (yeah I know it's heavy/overkill but I was lazy), and creates an "advanced" dialog for printing.

Right now it's quite basic, but does seem to work for me. Instructions on how to use it and the bookmarklet itself are here:
http://nickspacek.blogspot.com/2009/11/advanced-printing-from-google-calendar.html

Need to add some default-grabbing from the current view, like month/week/etc. view, date range, and whatnot. Also should be able to select which calendars are in it (not sure where they come from at the moment).

If anyone knows of someone already doing this, let me know.

Nick Spacek [PersonRank 1]

14 years ago #

Added support for choosing calendars. Wasn't working right without it, and was pretty easy to do.

I also had a suggestion to make this into a Lab Gadget. Forgot that it was possible, so I may do that in the near future.

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