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For those who cannot download the game on their work computers, is there an online or other form of the manual?
If you study it at work it doesn't horn in on your playing time at home, hehe

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I'm in the same boat as you.
I guess we could email the link from our home computers to the workplace and that might work. Doesn't really help with today though.

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Actually I can download the game at work but figured someone is going to have this problem and I didn't want to waste Shrapnel's bandwidth for a game that won't play on that computer (no video card).
After dl'ing SPWAW at 400+mb just for the manual, I found a player that has that manual for dl on his website.

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I just went ahead and printed the thing out. Massive, I tell you, but I can't stand having to alt-tab back and forth.

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What manual are you talking about ? I did expect a pdf (obviously for me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif )but only found some html pages.. That's the manual ? I hate html manuals 'cause you can't print them properly...

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I have heard exactly the same thing said about PDF ( i.e. they hate it ) The manual is in HTML becasue virtually everyone has the capability to view HTML.

We attempt to make everyone happy but it's simply not possible. I can assure you if we had made the manual PDF we'd have complaints about that too.

Don Goodbrand

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I found the manual for SPWAW online here:
http://www.spwaw.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=55

Hope this helps some people out http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Stian

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Well, WinSPMBT is a different game so don't know how this link you posted will help...

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To make everyone happy just make both http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif !
Manual is not a big point for me anyway, now I play SP games since 10 years http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif...

And the game is really good, I remember many frustrations with the original SP2 (lack of realism, engine not-that-good for modern combat), it's all gone with SPWinMBT, kudos guys ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Unfortunately this doesn't work. Don't know why I thought it might thinking about it with hindsight. It'll have to be a cut and paste job instead.

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Well while I did print out all of those HTML pages, some were fine but some had the last few words on the RH side of the page chopped off. It's not a disatrous consequence and I can read enough of it to get by for now.

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Got it running on my work computer.
Intel integrated graphics 64mb. Sound off of course.
Hmmm, suppose I can email my self saved games and play...
Hey look, dust trails are back in the tutorial.

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If you want a PDF version, get something like PDF CREATE by scansoft (~$50US at CompUSA, if not on sale). It creates a virtual printer that you select when printing the document. It then takes the document and "prints" it to a PDF file.

It is great for posting stuff online, too. I use it in my ministry for newsletters, workbook updates, etc.. By using PDF instead of HTML folks don't have to worry about printing issues. Plus, documents can be searchable.

Just my $0.02US.

Buddy

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As I recall you are stuck with the page size originally selected when creating a PDF. So we get these PDF files produced in the US in some weird inch-based paper format (like "legal") that the rest of the world that is on ISO standards (e.g. A4) cannot then print?. (It has been a long while since I tried printing a PDF, but have some recollection of the page size being 100% hard-coded?).

Cheers
Andy

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Andy,
It's really no problem printing an US Legal formatted doc on European A4 paper-.
US Legal is just a tad smaller than A4 so you only get a little more blank space. The other way round you have to resize at 98% or so to print but Acrobat softwar manages that all by itself.
I do that all the time with 90% of game documentation now being in PDF format... (so the argument about "it's not usable by anyone" doesn't stand much).

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Hey guys...what's the big deal about it..

I just copy the html gg text and paste it to a word document...it fits good, and from there you can either print it (about 180 letter pages if I recall well) or study from the monitor...

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I`ve converted the manual to word format. It is the complete manual,less the part about the CD extras (haven`t got round to that bit yet!)

If I`ve got the permission of the developers I`m willing to put it on the web space I`ve got for other people to download. Currently a 6.6mb rar file. (using rar as I was told some time back that the compression is better than zip format? though I`ll take their word for it!)

Obviously, any errors in the manual would be mine, and not the fault of anyone else. I`ve just copied and pasted the text and pics (converted to bmp) and adjusted the formating if required. I`ve made no alterations to the content, other than a note saying that it is my fault if there any errors in the the manual, due to the "copying and pasting" procedure.

If this is a "no-go" then thats not a problem.

I`d be happy to keep this updated on a as and when basis.

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Sorry, but the manual is copyright.

If folks want to read the manual, they can download the free game, which contains the game documentation.

Cheers
Andy

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Ok not a problem, I was thinking along the idea of complementing the Html version, for those people who wish to see/have it in word format, once they have the game.

Of course, making it freely available on the net would make that idea redundant! Ooops, didn`t think this one through http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif

Sorry if caused any offence.

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I'm in the process of converting the manual to a pdf format (with letter-sized width). Since my doing this is primarily for my own use and I'm in the US, I'm doing some converting to American English and also to US letter-sized format. I expect to be finished within the next day or two (at the most). If it is okay with Shrapnel Games, I'll be more than happy to post it somewhere for free download when it is complete. If anyone--particularly from Shrapnel--has any thoughts on this let me know.

Bill

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Ooops!!

Just noticed the post about the manual being copyrighted. Nevermind about posting/distributing it.

Sorry,
Bill