Luach and Luach Pirsum (Publisher) program
Automatically generating of one-day, two-day, three-day, ... calendars,
one-week, two-week calendars, month calendars with boxes or lines (also
several months on a single page) and year calendar.
Useful, among other things, for
DIN A5 ring binder calendars,
little or big booklets,
postcard calendars,
table card calendars,
personalized calendars,
Luach with color gradients,
wall calendars (also jumbo calendars e.g. for DIN A3
to DIN A0 printing or banner printing, ...),
Family
planner
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Office Table luchot, time planners,
stick-on labels, year calendar on one page and much more.
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Luach
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Luach Pirsum (Publisher)
Individual graphical
calendar designer software
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64-bit version
only for 64-bit Windows Vista or 7
updated on 8 June 2010
Free download by clicking on
here (about 5,14 MB)
Before downloading, you must read the short manual
by clicking on here
Displaying Khumesh (many thanks to
Prof. Leonard Prager for providing them) in Yiddish. Installation
and using instructions are in the short manual
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64-bit version
only for 64-bit Windows Vista or 7
updated on 12 August 2009
Free download by clicking on
here (about 4,23 MB)
Before downloading, you must read the Readme file
by clicking on here
Download sample calendar files by clicking on here
For using Luach Pirsum (Publisher), the Luach
must be also downloaded and installed
Creation of Luach booklets - screenshots available
(fast and only for some cents of paper and printing costs)
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32-bit version
Version 12.5 - updated on 3 October 2008
(with fewer features than the 64-bit version)
Free download by clicking on
here (about 4,03 MB)
Before downloading, you must read the short manual
by clicking on here
Displaying Khumesh in Yiddish. Installation
and using instructions are in the short manual.
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32-bit version
Version 1.74 - updated on 27 September 2008
(with fewer features than the 64-bit version)
Free download by clicking on
here (about 3,81 MB)
Before downloading, you must read the Readme file
by clicking on here
Download sample calendar files by clicking on here
For using Luach Pirsum (Publisher), the Jewish Calendar Program
must be also downloaded and installed
Creation of Luach booklets - screenshots available
(fast and only for some cents of paper and printing costs)
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Common features, e.g. |
Features of Jewish Calendar, e.g. |
Features of Luach Pirsum, e.g.
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Calendar Calculation from 1583-3000
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Languages in calendar views: English, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian,
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch,
Greek, Norwegian, Turkish, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian
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Individual defining of weekday names, Gregorian month names,
Jewish month and holiday names (also in Hebrew), Zmanim (also in Hebrew),
torah readings
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Day notes by clicking on a day
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Omer count, Yizkor, Rosh Hodesh, Molad
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Shabbat times, Zmanim and starting/ending times of holidays
- chooseable in 12 or 24 hour clock format
- over 1100 places
- own places can be added individually
- Daylight Savings Time calculation also for Israel with the
new method of 2005
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Calculation of non-Jewish holidays of 19 countries
with displaying in a window list
- e.g. Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France,
Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, USA
- The holidays of the here-mentioned countries are displayed in
the country's language
- By clicking on the desired holiday, it is copied into the clipboard,
from which it can be pasted into a text field or into the day notes
- A whole list for a Gregorian year with non-Jewish holidays
can be copied into the clipboard
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Following information is available when clicking on a day
- by clicking on Insert Zmanim...:
Zmanim for the current day.
Furthermore, individual Zmanim can be copied into
the clipboard from which they can be pasted into the
notes area.
- by clicking on Halacha:
Halacha data, e.g. Shakharit, Minkha, Maariv
- by clicking on View torah reading in Yiddish!:
Text of torah readings on a Shabbat or holiday in Yiddish (installation
of special files required, see short manual (for 32-bit version or
for 64-bit version)
for more information)
- by clicking on View torah reading in Hebrew!:
Text of torah readings on a Shabbat or holiday in Hebrew (Internet
connection required)
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Printing
The possible paper sizes for printing are dependent on the used
printer (driver).
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Export (especially important for Jewish congregations)
- Torah and haphtarot readings
- Shabbat times
- Zmanim
- Birthdays and Yahrzeit
- Bar/Bat Mitzvah calculation
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Exporting of months as a HTML file with own notes
- non-Western languages can be exported as HTML files
which use bitmap files
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Displaying own picture in the week calendar view, e.g. family photo
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Individual setting of background pictures in the month and year
calendar view (19 are supplied)
- Ability to show automatically for a self-defined time range
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Project planner
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Small word processor with mixing of Hebrew from right to left
- The utility used to write Hebrew from right to left can
be also used in another word processor
Possibilities of calendar design
Table card calendar
On photo cardboard, which can be printed on both sides,
up to four month calendars can be placed.
By clicking on the picture below, it is made larger
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Click here to view
foreside and backside
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Postcard calendars
By clicking on the picture below, it is made larger
Personalized calendars
e.g. with pictures from a digital camera
By clicking on the picture below, it is made larger
Luach with color gradients
By clicking on the picture below, it is made larger
DIN A4 Wall Luach with easy change to other languages
(draft only for 64-bit version and can be requested on demand)
By clicking on the pictures below, they are made larger
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optimally in DIN A3 format
By clicking on the picture below, it is made larger
Family planner for a week in 8.5 x 11 inches format
By clicking on the picture below, it is made larger
Creating DIN A3 wall paper and banner (here a length of
about 87 cm and width of 29,7 cm) calendars (these calendars
were created with a normal DIN A3 printer)
See details of the original size of the banner Luach by
clicking on the picture below
Creating poster year calendars like on the banner DIN A3 calendar
up to 12 or 13 months of any size, e.g. DIN A0/A1/A2
By clicking on the picture below, it is made larger in original DIN A0 size
This is possible easily with the following steps:
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Define the used paper size in Calendar, Select Paper
Size..., Custom size in millimeters.
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After finishing creating the calendar, use Edit, Store
current calendar page as a Windows Bitmap file for saving the
created calendar page into a Windows Bitmap (BMP) file.
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Use a service for printing digital image files to poster paper (if
the service uses a different format, e.g. JPEG, you have to convert
the BMP files with image processing software, e.g. Adobe Photoshop). In
Germany, for example, there is a company who offer printing JPEG files
to photo poster paper from 10,- EURO on.
Creation of pocket and booklet Luchot
Designing very easily, fast and inexpensively
(only some cents)
Synagogues, Jewish non-profit organizations and Rabbis can request
template files from me. Further support can be given.
- Languages: English, individually defining names e.g. for weekdays,
months and holidays or predefined languages
- Time formats: 24 hour or 12 hour (am/pm) format
- Automatic times calculations, also possibility for
putting two custom times for a day, e.g. for Fast days
- Possibility to insert own text or graphics at any location on the pages
Creating pocket Luchot
Click on the picture below to see the Luach unfolded
Creating booklet Luchot
- Only four DIN A4 pages (without cover page) must be printed double-sided for this booklet
(eight blank DIN A6 pages are free for designing yourself)
- For the cover page, a paper with 180 g/mē is recommended
- 1 DIN A4 page results in 2 cover pages
- Additional blank pages for designing yourself can be added
- After printing the DIN A4 pages, they are cut
once in the middle horizontally, stapled and folded
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By clicking on a picture, it is displayed larger
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Cover page
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The opened booklet
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Stick-on labels
For the extension of non-Jewish calendars like e.g. time planners,
office calendar, wall calendar
Click on the picture to enlarge it
Features as in other calendar objects, e.g. your language, include pictures
via Drag&Drop, own notes, different colors ...
The sample file as a template for your labels can be requested.
Feature list
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Screenshots for users with Hebrew Windows
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Inserting the current Jewish calendar into a Microsoft Word document
via a Word macro
- Click here for two samples
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Year calendar on DIN A4 paper
Own pictures and text can be placed at any location
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Design possibilities
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Multi day, multi week, multi month and year calendar
- Free moveable and resizeable on a page with the mouse by
the Drag&Drop technique
- Many individual setting possibilities
- Except in the year calendar, Zmanim of your choice for each
day and/or Daf Yomi in English or Hebrew can be included
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Click here to view a sample of
unlimited design possibilities
- Calendar objects
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Displaying of month or week calendars in any language together with Hebrew
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Also using of Unicode fonts for Hebrew and Yiddish
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Defining font name, size, style and color for every text which
is displayed in the calendar object - click
here for a sample
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Individual defining of font settings for specific holiday(s)
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Individual colored background can be set for single days
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Besides the month box calendar, Shabbat times for multiple
cities can be shown - click
here for
a sample
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Insert day notes (by clicking on a day) in any language, also Hebrew
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If you create a calendar object with lines as a template,
calendar pages of a selectable range of dates
can be generated automatically.
- This feature is e.g. suitable for creating calendars in
timeplanner format or day calendars.
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The calendar objects with month boxes can be also rotated by
90, 180 and 270 degrees
- General objects
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Drawing features like lines, rectangles or circles
whose line width and color are changeable - moving and
resizing with Drag&Drop, free-drawing
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Text fields - moving and resizing with Drag&Drop
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Own pictures in the Windows Bitmap (BMP) format or Windows
Metafile (WMF) format, e.g. photos, cliparts, frames, can be
inserted via Drag&Drop on the calendar page at any location
- Export
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Single calendar objects in Enhanced Metafile format - this
is a vector graphics format - into the clipboard, which can
be used in other applications, such as a word processor, ...
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I would be pleased to implement other languages to the calendar
programs.
If you are interested in that, you can send me a paper calendar
and/or list which contains the words transcribed in your
language - please click here for
words which are needed.
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About the programmer
System requirements: Pentium-PC (recommended with at least 350 MHz),
MS-Windows XP/Vista/7, SuperVGA graphics card with a graphics
resolution of 1024*768 pixel with HighColor (16-Bit) color resolution.
MS-Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Ulrich Greve
E-Mail: jewishsoftware@tichnut.de
Homepage: http://www.tichnut.de/jewish/
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