Launch the Calendar Wizard

Do not have a frame selected, or a curser active in a text frame, then double clicking on calendarWizard.js in the Scripts pallete.

You can also use "calendarWizard-classic.js" or the "gridCalendar.js" under legacy-launchers. That will bring up the classic interface which is faster, but less interactive.

Adjust the Settings

For this calendar, I'm going to utilize a lot of features. First, set the start month to January and the last month to December to get a 12 month calendar. I'm setting the date rows to 6 because I want every cell on every calendar to be sized the same. I've turned on every calendar and layer option. I also added a couple of holiday sets.

For the page size, I set the calendar to be 30cm x 30cm with a 2cm margin and 3mm bleed. I got these dimensions from a users who publishes professional calendars.

Commentary

Out of the box, we have a very boring calendar - but everything is ready to style!

Adding a Background

To add a background, I selected the left A-Master page and created a black rectangle 30.6cm x 30.6cm on Layer 1.

Changing the Cell Background Color

In the settings, I activated a Background layer. It created a super-imposed table linked to a unique cell style that utilized a cal_background swatch for the color. I edited the swatch to give the calendar a cream colored background.

Changing the font

The text all inherits from the cal_base paragraph style. I set Adobe Garamond Pro as the font for that style. I found the default sizes also too small for the dates and title; however, it was fine for the day of the week. I therefore set the font size in cal_date to 36pt and cal_title to 56pt.

Setting the Highlighted Holiday Color

I want to differentiate between Sunday's and Holidays so I adjusted the cal_holidayDate swatch to 100% Cyan and 25% Black

Modifying the Work Week Cell Lines

Turning off the frame edges and guides and comparing with and without the black background shows what I consider to be an ugly-factor. The default stroke does not put a border around the work week. With the black background, there is a stroke which extens most of the way across. There are several approaches to this - the easiest for me to tweek was to add a stroke to the top and bottom of the work week cells.

Voila!

Adding in a picture on the picture layer and showing all layers gives the final result