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Thread #28206   Message #349267
Posted By: Zebedee
30-Nov-00 - 07:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Calendar - Pick a month
Subject: RE: BS: Calendar - Pick a month
Alison,

The cynic in me guesses that this will never happen, but if you and the others who posted 'yes' in the previous thread are serious, I'd be happy to help organanise / co-ordinate it.

A couple of things I think need considering:

1. Getting 12 individuals to produce independent 'month' pages without any layout/design guidance is going to result in a real mess, the pages will all be different sizes to begin with... Some sort of template is needed.

2. Letting people use 'any' publishing software is going to make it a complete nightmare, or even an impossibility for whoever finally puts it together. Even if everyone used MS Publisher, different versions of Publisher won't read files created in other versions. Publisher 98 won't read Publisher 97 files or visa-versa. Neither version will open Publisher 2000 files etc.

3. Is the calender going to be a 'nude' calendar, a 'baby and adult' calender or what?

btw - my guess is that those who (understandably) don't want to appear 'nude' don't quite understand the nature of 'nudity' in this type of thing. If they did, maybe more would be interested.

I'm sorry if this sounds really negative, and there are other problems as to who prints it, how it is distributed etc.

However, I do think that ways round all the above could be found, and whilst it probably wouldn't make much money, it might make a bit and be good fun for all involved.

If your serious, I'm very happy to offer lots of help to make sure it happens.

Let me know

Ed