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RVPERTVS
September 16th, 2014, 02:27 AM
Courtesy of jeffreywilens, thank you good sir!
Falcon1
September 16th, 2014, 08:42 AM
This is outstanding thank you! Is it difficult to do? I wouldn't mind a PDF of the SPMBT manual as well. Do I need some special program to convert it or is it freely available?
RVPERTVS
September 16th, 2014, 09:40 AM
He already posted the SPMBT guide as well:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=824506&postcount=12

I really haven't done it yet as he kindly offered to do it, but I stumbled upon some tutorials online. I believe you need a pdf converter program.
Falcon1
September 16th, 2014, 04:59 PM
Thank you I don't know how I missed that.
Falcon1
September 17th, 2014, 06:11 PM
The first time I opened this file, I thought, wow! 480 pages!

Then I noticed the first 12 pages or so were repeated twice. Is the manual really that big? Or are there more errors in the conversion?
RVPERTVS
September 17th, 2014, 06:32 PM
AFAIK some pages are repeated during the conversion process, others are the updates and country listings that also get repeated on the actual guide IIRC.

It's daunting at first I know, but you'll soon realize that you can skip most sections leaving them for future reference, like the scenario creation guide, tutorial scenario etc.
Cross
September 18th, 2014, 06:51 PM
The Game Guide was over 400 PDF pages back in 2009 (without any repeats).

When you convert HTML files into PDF it is a bit messy and really requires some clean up. When I did it 4.5 years ago I recall it took me about an hour or so to clean it up and fix broken links. Maybe it was longer...


Cross
Falcon1
September 19th, 2014, 07:24 AM
It's OK, even with all the repeated pages it is still more readable than the html version, which apparently my system is not set up to view correctly.
76mm
September 25th, 2014, 08:25 PM
Excellent, thanks for this.
chemkid
November 2nd, 2014, 02:42 PM
thank you! :)
RVPERTVS
July 1st, 2015, 10:10 PM
Anyone knows if the latest version included changes to the game guide? Just wondering if the file needs an update.
scorpio_rocks
July 1st, 2015, 10:23 PM
New version is searchable through full document (form release history):

The game guide HTML files have been amagamated into one file so any keyword search will now find them all without changing to a new page and re-doing the search.

this makes the file redundant I believe...