Common features, e.g. | Features of Jewish Calendar, e.g. | Features of Luach Pirsum, e.g.

Common features, e.g.

• Calendar Calculation from 1583-3000
• Languages in calendar views: English, German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Turkish, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian

• Day notes by clicking on a day
• Omer count, Yizkor, Rosh Hodesh, Molad
• 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
• 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

Features of Jewish Calendar Program, e.g.

• Week, one month, two or three month (depending on the graphics resolution) and year calendar view. Many individual setting possibilities.

• 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)

• Printing The possible paper sizes for printing are dependent on the used printer (driver).
  • week, month and year calendar,
  • Printing of calendars suitable for DIN A5 ring binders
    Features: direction from left to right or from right to left, chooseable language displayable together with Hebrew, Shabbat times, Yizkor, Omer counting, Daf Yomi, own notes, definable non-Jewish holidays
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    More information how to use this feature are available in English and German.
  • papers suitable for timeplanners with individual notes
    • optionally with shabbat times, torah sections, Daf Yomi and daily Zmanim of your choice, also with Hebrew names
  • year calendar also in postcard size with Jewish/Gregorian dates and Jewish holidays
    • optionally with shabbat times, torah sections

  • Creation of Office Table luchot

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• Export (especially important for Jewish congregations)
  • Torah and haphtarot readings
  • Shabbat times
  • Zmanim
  • Birthdays and Yahrzeit
  • Bar/Bat Mitzvah calculation
• Exporting of months as a HTML file with own notes
  • non-Western languages can be exported as HTML files which use bitmap files

• Displaying own picture in the week calendar view, e.g. family photo
  

• 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
• Project planner
• 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

Features of Luach Pirsum, e.g.

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.

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Click here to view foreside and backside

Postcard calendars

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Personalized calendars
e.g. with pictures from a digital camera

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Luach with color gradients

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DIN A4 Wall Luach with easy change to other languages
(draft only for 64-bit version and can be requested on demand)

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F a m i l y   p l a n n e r
optimally in DIN A3 format

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Family planner for a week in 8.5 x 11 inches format
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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:

1. Define the used paper size in Calendar, Select Paper Size..., Custom size in millimeters.
2. 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.
3. 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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Cover page		The opened booklet

Stick-on labels

For the extension of non-Jewish calendars like e.g. time planners, office calendar, wall calendar

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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

• Screenshots for users with Hebrew Windows
  • Calendar page created with the program Luach Pirsum
• Inserting the current Jewish calendar into a Microsoft Word document via a Word macro
  • Click here for two samples
• Year calendar on DIN A4 paper
  • Year calendar on a single DIN A4 page

Own pictures and text can be placed at any location

• Design possibilities
  • 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
  • Click here to view a sample of unlimited design possibilities

• Calendar objects
  • Displaying of month or week calendars in any language together with Hebrew
    • Also using of Unicode fonts for Hebrew and Yiddish
  • Defining font name, size, style and color for every text which is displayed in the calendar object - click here for a sample
  • Individual defining of font settings for specific holiday(s)
  • Individual colored background can be set for single days
  • Besides the month box calendar, Shabbat times for multiple cities can be shown - click here for a sample
  • Insert day notes (by clicking on a day) in any language, also Hebrew
  • 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.
  • The calendar objects with month boxes can be also rotated by 90, 180 and 270 degrees

• General objects
  • Drawing features like lines, rectangles or circles whose line width and color are changeable - moving and resizing with Drag&Drop, free-drawing
  • Text fields - moving and resizing with Drag&Drop
  • 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
  • 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, ...

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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