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WWDC schedule: Ajax to PDF
Developers and other WWDC attendees looking for a simple printout of the sessions and labs at the conference may be disappointed with the results when printing out Apple's (very slick) Ajax calendars. You could save the pages to PDFs and have a calendar format, but for the purposes of a nice, list-format printout, I can't find a printable version. It's entirely possible I'm not looking hard enough, but at least one other person had the same problem ... and was resourceful enough to come up with a solution. Johannes Fahrenkrug is making available a Ruby script that will make a PDF with a nicely formatted table of all the sessions and labs offered at WWDC.
You can grab the script at his blog and running it is a simple matter of unzipping and executing the wwdcpdf.rb file from Terminal (or wherever you like to do such things). The output is a simple table format with some classic Helvetica action. Those familiar with FPDF may be able to get more artistic with it, or simply build off of the existing code to output in other print or screen-friendly ways. Given that it's based off of an XML file, you can even do some sorting and filtering with a little bit of Ruby magic. Johannes states that he'd be happy to see the script enhanced!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Byran Newell said 1:51PM on 5-16-2008
Why do I get the feeling that this calendar might be multipurposed into a new .Mac/iPhone feature?
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Luigi193 said 2:08PM on 5-16-2008
I got this error after downloading:
~/Downloads/wwdcpdf/wwdcpdf.rb:9:in `require': no such file to load -- FPDF (LoadError)
from ~/Downloads/wwdcpdf/wwdcpdf.rb:9
TO fix it, all the file out of the zipped folder and put them in your user directory... it then seemed to work... I don't really know why it didn't work before... But theres a fix for you.
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Luigi193 said 2:13PM on 5-16-2008
Or you can download the output from my test server:
http://luigi193.com/wwdc.pdf
Kris said 2:39PM on 5-16-2008
we have times, but no locations?
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LaLa said 3:11PM on 5-16-2008
Thanks for the PDF. I liked the iCal version last year
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jackace said 3:38PM on 5-16-2008
Yeah, I had problems printing the schedule too. Using IE helped, but neither IE nor Firefox could print the Friday Lab schedule. I ended up taking a screenshot of the page and pasting in Microsoft Word.
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Stefan Seiz said 4:39AM on 5-19-2008
Total waste of time. The printouts handed out at every WWDC are better than anything you could produce with whatever nifty script ;-)
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