Daily printing scheduling?

Question

Is there a good way to set iCal up to print my daily schedule/to-dos in the morning before I leave for class/work?
I tried looking into Automator or Apple Script, but I don't know them well enough. I imagine it would involve using cron to schedule an Apple Script to open iCal and print the day's items, but any insight or simpler way would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi Scott,
This Applescript does it on my system. Copy the blue text into a Script Editor window (Applications> Applescript> Script Editor), press Run to test the script. If you like it save it as a script.
You could then use iCal to run the script every morning. Make a new calendar, make a repeating event and add a run script alarm to the event that opens the script, hide the calendar.
-- Print Today's iCal
-- Applescript -- John Maisey 9 October 2006
-- www.nhoj.co.uk
tell application "iCal"
view calendar at (my (current date))
switch view to day view
activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "p" using command down
delay 1 -- (seconds) Edit this delay if needed.
keystroke return
delay 2 -- (seconds) Edit this delay if needed.
keystroke return
end tell
quit -- Or perhaps not?
end tell
Best wishes
John M