Posted by universalis on 5 October 2012
Many people print out pages from Universalis by pasting them into Microsoft Word. One user has asked me for a way to make the rubrics darker, because they come out pale gold on his printer. So here is a way of changing the colour of the rubrics. I’ve used Word 2002 for this, but I expect that other versions will be similar.
I’m assuming that you have the Universalis program for Windows and you have copied a page from it by pressing Ctrl+C and have pasted it into a Word document.
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Posted by universalis on 22 September 2012
A bug has been reported in Universalis on iOS 6. It affects iPhones and iPods only, not iPads. The effect of the bug is that in the calendar display every day is blank. The days are there, and they work, but they have no text.
This bug has been corrected. An update for the Universalis app will be available from the App Store on Monday 22 October, and the App Store application on your device should offer it to you automatically then. (The corresponding update for Catholic Calendar has been available since 11 October).
Meanwhile this post describes a way round the bug.
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Posted by universalis on 19 July 2012
The latest version of Universalis and Catholic Calendar for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch is now available on the iTunes App Store. It changes the way that large fonts are handled so as to make life easier for the people who need them.
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Posted by universalis on 30 April 2012
Some people want to use the Universalis downloads to create e-books for the Amazon Kindle but are daunted by the last step: transferring the e-book to the Kindle itself.
One of our users has alerted us to the new Send to Kindle program which Amazon have made available for Windows (and soon, they claim, for the Mac as well).
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Posted by universalis on 23 April 2012
Every day, Universalis has the Readings at Mass. Universalis also has the Order of Mass. It was time we combined the two.
The new Mass Today page in Universalis shows you the whole of Mass for today, both the parts that never change and the parts that change from day to day – not just the readings, but the prayers and antiphons. It means that you can follow Mass from beginning to end without having to flip from one page to another.
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Posted by universalis on 16 April 2012
We got a question earlier today:
“I have been a Universalis user for several years, but this week – every day the Mass reading is the same – Isaiah for the first reading, Psalm 89 for the response, a second reading from revelation and Luke 4:16-21 for the Gospel,. The readings are correct on your website, but the download – nope. I’ve gone back and forth, closed and re-opened – always the same thing. I used to download a month at a time, but this year downloaded the whole year – but I have lots of memory.”
This is the kind of technical support question it is impossible to answer. It may help you to get help quickly (if you ever need it) if I list the reasons:
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Posted by universalis on 12 April 2012
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was established in 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI to allow Anglicans to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church whilst retaining much of their heritage and traditions.
The Ordinariate has its own calendar, which differs from the English one in including more English saints (many of whom are in fact already celebrated in some Catholic dioceses), and also in giving different names to the “Sundays of the Year”, although the liturgy for those Sundays does not change.
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Posted by universalis on 30 March 2012
A reader has pointed out to us this article in CathNews New Zealand.
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Posted by universalis on 30 January 2012
There are versions for the downloadable Universalis program for Windows and for Mac, but there is no specific version for Linux. However, some people have reported success in using the Windows download on Linux (see the earlier blog post). Today I have received an email from another user:
I don’t run Windows or Apple Mac but instead use Ubuntu Linux. Linux has a Windows emulator program called Wine and I tried your program using this emulator. It works perfectly.
I’d just thought I would let you know in case you get any queries form other Linux users.
We don’t support running the Windows Universalis on Linux, in that if you have a problem with it then there is nothing we can do to help. On the other hand we are very happy to hear that it does work and we encourage you to try it. We will certainly not do anything intentionally to stop it working in the future.
It has been suggested that we should mention Linux on the Universalis web page. We feel we can’t do this because it might make people think that Universalis on Linux is supported, which it isn’t. But we’re still glad to hear that it seems to work.
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Posted by universalis on 8 December 2011
A few versions ago, we changed the iPhone version of Universalis so that the Invitatory is part of each Hour rather than a separate page. We did this partly to remove the need to jump around and find it and partly because we needed extra space in the Hours list for the “Order of Mass” page.
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Electric Prayer 