rich12545 Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 I'd like to print out a copy of the manual but with the brown border and tan background it looks like it'll use a whole color cartridge every ten pages. Is there a copy anywhere that is more printer friendly? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 Copy & paste into a word processor and then print that. A fair amount of work if you do the whole manual, granted, but you might just do the parts you absolutely have to have. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich12545 Posted July 5, 2005 Author Share Posted July 5, 2005 I like to have a printed manual and don't mind printing the whole thing. Problem is that by copying to a word processor you lose all the images and there's no way to copy them from a pdf to the word processor. It would be really nice to have a printer friendly manual with a game that doesn't come with a printed manual. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 You may be able to order a printed manual from BFC. Have you tried contacting them? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Since rich lives in the States he probably has the printed partial manual that comes with the game. What he wants is the full manual in print. I think. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Originally posted by Michael Emrys: Since rich lives in the States he probably has the printed partial manual that comes with the game. What he wants is the full manual in print. I think. Michael If he bought the DVD pack, he'll have the partial manual. If he bought direct from BFC, he'll have the full manual (like wot I have). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich12545 Posted July 5, 2005 Author Share Posted July 5, 2005 I have the small booklet that came with the game and would like to print the entire manual, with images. All it would take is getting rid of the brown border and light tan background from each page. If BFC (or anyone with an Adobe program, really) could do that it would be nice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ales Dvorak Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 Originally posted by Soddball: If he bought direct from BFC, he'll have the full manual (like wot I have). I do so,but my manual (printed) has only 30 pages. Soddy,what's up? Love Aice 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Originally posted by Ales Dvorak: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Soddball: If he bought direct from BFC, he'll have the full manual (like wot I have). I do so,but my manual (printed) has only 30 pages. Soddy,what's up?</font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich12545 Posted July 6, 2005 Author Share Posted July 6, 2005 Well, I don't think it's asking too much for BFC to take out the brown borders and background to make the manual suitable for printing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Try using Adobe Acrobat Pro to export the manual to however you want. Edit: Tested it and it comes out as 85 pages RTF :eek: but looks OK with pics all in the right place minus background. [ July 06, 2005, 09:39 AM: Message edited by: Wicky ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich12545 Posted July 6, 2005 Author Share Posted July 6, 2005 Oh sure. And do you have any idea what that costs? (shakes head) I've been looking online for a pdf editor. They're all at least $50-100. So far as I can tell there are no free ones. And I still feel that since the game didn't come with a manual, the least BFC can do is provide a pdf file that is suitable for printing without using a whole color cartridge. I really don't think that's an unreasonable request. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 pop into a printshop and ask them to do it for you - cheaper than a colour inkjet cartridge... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich12545 Posted July 6, 2005 Author Share Posted July 6, 2005 You're kidding, right? To have 200+ color pages printed at Kinkos or a similar location would be way more than a color cartridge, which is about $25. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 I got 85 pages = 8.5 cartridges - can you haggle? Originally posted by rich12545: I'd like to print out a copy of the manual but with the brown border and tan background it looks like it'll use a whole color cartridge every ten pages. Is there a copy anywhere that is more printer friendly? [ July 06, 2005, 12:16 PM: Message edited by: Wicky ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich12545 Posted July 6, 2005 Author Share Posted July 6, 2005 The manual has 213 pages. How do you get only 85? Bottom line is it's going to take someone with a pdf editor and about 5 minutes to do the job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicky Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 213 in the raw pdf - 85 in the exported RTF version - whoops edit 202! - my bad Discovered the page numbering and index will be mucked up BTW Check your mail Originally posted by rich12545: The manual has 213 pages. How do you get only 85? Bottom line is it's going to take someone with a pdf editor and about 5 minutes to do the job. [ July 06, 2005, 12:55 PM: Message edited by: Wicky ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich12545 Posted July 6, 2005 Author Share Posted July 6, 2005 Yeah, I already had. The file you sent didn't seem to work very well in my word processor, which is Open Office. I sent you a reply. Looks like that file came from a pdf to word converter. I tried one of those to no avail. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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