Customer Reviews

Calendar Creator 9

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I've used Calendar Creator since it first came out and it was a wonderful product until taken over by the big software companies. Not only has it become more difficult to install and use, technical support has fallen to the worst I've had experience to use. The older versions would allow you to print horizontal half-page calendars which allowed for more room for daily comments. I've called technical support several time to try to work this out in versions 7 & 8 with no response. If it does it, they won't tell you. What's the alternative? I haven't found one yet.

I've never seen such a blatant display of false advertising. The box says "Save as HTML, Bitmap, or JPEG", and when you run the software you find that you can't save in any of the those formats. Go to their website and it will tell you this option is not available with Calendar Creator 9, but if you buy the Deluxe version...

Even if you don't care about this feature, please don't let such a ripoff go unpunished. Who knows what other shortcuts they took? There's plenty of calendar software out there - try something else.

The Calendar Creator 9 packaging lists among features: "Save as HTML, Bitmap or JPEG." After you install it, you find that this feature is available only in the Deluxe Edition. I can't get CC9 (or CC8) to print correctly in PCL or Postscript. I didn't have these problems in the early versions.

This program is the worst of them all! After intstalling it we could not get the art gallery to work at all. We un-installed it and re-installed 8 and something in the software of 9 [messed] up the software in 8 and I cannot even get 8 to work. The earlier versions were much better to use. I would not recommend this product.

This item has a lot of variety! You have to take the time to go through all that is offered .... the help page tells you all you need to do as far as details.
I would buy this item again.
I would have found it more helpful to have a manual instead of the online help. It's more convenient than having to log online to use the help button.

I could not get Calendar Creator 9 to install on my Dell using Windows XP.

I upgraded this from version 7. I found MANY bugs in printing, saving and default preference option saving. This version of the software was trully an un-remarkable upgrade and Version 7 was actually more stable and actually worked more then not. In version 9 I can not print the graphics without jagged edges on either Postscript or PCL/6 printers. User preference options keet resorting to the default setting, Constant advertisements and popup screens even after registering and logging on to the Web site. Over all a HUGH dissappointment.

I see that there are many versions of this great product for sale through different outlets including Amazon and Broderband. As I have used 2 different versions over the last 2 years, it has become painfully clear that Broderband actively sells old product without warning that there is a new version available. When I purchased my latest version 6.0, the 'freebees' were already out-of-date and not available (I wasted postage). It is NOT XP compatible. Then I went to the company website (Broderband) and go to the XP compatible page only to see that the latest version listed there is 8.0 when there is a 9.0 ver released! The 9.0 ver page states that it is Win XP compatible! I strongly suggest that if Broderband wishes to sell older product, they need to be very clear that this is their intention(third-party vendors included). Many wasted $$$. Shame on you for misleading information through your sellers...

The only thing 'Creative' about this software is its description. It has less features than the previous version, but it has more useless clipart, thus the version upgrade. Nowhere does it tell you that it is not network compatible (for a home network - specifically different printers)until you try to print pages to a different printer on your home network. Then you get some inane error message about paper stock. After spending an inordinate amount of time on Broderbund's 'Creative' support site, you finally learn that this entire line of Calendar software (minus one version) is not network compatible. There are other things I could tell you about this too, but overall, take some advice and don't buy this title.

I bought this program (Deluxe 9 version) because the description said it would be compatible with my Palm Pilot. It might be. I don't think I'll ever know because I cannot get the program to install with Windows XP. I've spent hours trying to solve the problem, including serving time at Broderbund's technical support site. So far, I've had no luck. Worse still, it seems to conflict with another of Broderbund's products on my computer, PrintMaster. It sounded so appealing but I think this program is going to end up in my junk heap. Save yourself time and money; don't buy this.