The trial version of Calendar Commander is functional for 25 uses. After that, a "Trial Expired" watermark will print on top of the calendars. Also, the File|Save function is disabled in the trial version so that any modifications you make to the included calendars will not be saved. Of course, the licensed version has none of these restrictions.

Unfortunately, you can't use version 1 calendar files with version 2, since it uses a different script engine. However, you can convert your version 1 event files using the Event Converter utility.

When using the # or $ characters to provide an automated counter such as in "Mary's $ Birthday" so that it displays (for example) as "Mary's 8th Birthday", the count is based on the number of times that event has occurred since the starting date specified. So in the case of birthdays (and anniversaries), set the starting date to the person's 1st birthday, not the actual date of birth. To acknowledge the actual year of birth, just make a separate non-recurring event for it (i.e., "Mary is born")

Get 13 sheets of paper and print full page images and full page monthly calendars in landscape orientation in accordance with this table:

Use the Image-12 file included (version 2.01 or later) to print out your full-page images. Select your own images for each of the 12 months. You can print them out in one run by setting the date to January and on the print dialog, set the range to 12 pages with a 1 month increment. Then run those pages through your printer again and print your calendars on the back side. The calendars should be upside-down when printed on the back of the image side so they will appear right-side up when flipped vertically from a horizontal binding. Use any of the monthly calendars that have a landscape orientation such as Month-1A, Month-1B, etc. Of course, set your desired fonts, titles, colors, events, etc. before printing. Take your pages to your local print shop or office supply store and have them bound with a plastic or wire spiral binding. You may want a little more margin space below the picture and above the calendars to make room for the binding. You can manually adjust margins on the Setup/Printer dialog (uncheck the "Auto balance margins" option) before printing.

Install a third-party PDF printer driver and you can create PDF documents from any program, including Calendar Commander. A free program called CutePDF Writer seems to work fine with Calendar Commander. Just select "CutePDF Writer" as the printer name under Setup/Printer/Setup and then print normally. The driver will prompt you for the name of the file to save.

Try toggling on or off the "Print Truetype fonts graphically" option. It is located on the General tab when you click the Pref button on Calendar Commander's main toolbar.