Does anyone know of a site I can download the Supremacy/Rebellion manual from so I can print it out.

 

My original is begining to fall apart and I really want to save it for posterity

 

Any help will be appreciated

My version has the manuel on the disc If it wasn't in french i would send it to you. Sorry

Thanks anyway, unfortunately my parlez vous Francais is crap!!!!

i have it

 

however, it is in PDF format and is 53 MB.

 

I tell you what. if no-one comes hither to offer I will shrink the manual size and post it on my website.

 

good?

YES

I also have that large pdf version, but if you can shrink it, I think that'd be best for our young collegue

Wasn't there a smaller one around on the web as well?

Yeah, it was about 20megs or so, hmm

 

but it looks like the post was deleted

Maybe someone remebers where the link pointed to?

i used adobe 6 pro to shrink the pdf to 20 megs. however, i also used pro to convert it to html. very nice.

 

i love myself

Nice work! Why is the initial version so large, by the way?

Because its a rather large manual. Mine is actually divised in six different files on my disc.

i have it

 

however, it is in PDF format and is 53 MB.

 

I tell you what. if no-one comes hither to offer I will shrink the manual size and post it on my website.

 

good?

 

Could you use winzip to shrink it? I'd love to have a copy.

 

Where is your website??

 

Thanks for your help

Sorry to bump this, but I think posting an online manual is a great idea. There is a recent surge of interest in old skool SW stuff...fans-potential players...that I've talked to, who's going back to try out games like Yoda Stories, Rebel Assult, JKI, Dark Forces, X-Wing alliance, and you know. Old school stuff. But they're all afraid to buy SWR and give it a go because they've all read the reviews on window shuffling or whatnot.

 

SS Officer, Imperator2, and whoever else, I think you should post the 50 or 20 mb pdf file, or zip up the html conversion for download somewhere (perhaps on SWR.com, but bandwidth probs...). The manual, despite what we might feel, do a pretty good job of being a manual. An html formatted one is easily accessible and can help newbies (who's inherited a 5th-hand used CD) understand the game.

It might be a better idea to have the manual online and accessible in parts rather than for download...

It might be a better idea to have the manual online and accessible in parts rather than for download...

 

Excellent idea......can you help SS Officer/TK421???

you mean online at this site?

Yes, as a web manual.

Ahh, a web manual. A good idea indeed. Get cracking boys!

What would be the most functional way of doing this, JI?

Well, create an HTML page with the table of contents, then create each separate page and make sure to have "Next/Previous/Table of Contents" links there. I suggest having several pages which consist of "big" sections and using the table of contents to take you directly to an anchor (#something).

Just getting an update on how the manual htmls are coming along. I'm just asking, because there are people with pdf manuals, in case it's too much trouble to convert them into html and then post it to the site. For instance, I have the ~50 meg file as well as the one that was split into 4 parts (although that one is in French. hence, useless for our current purpose).

How large would it become if converted to html?

The bare minimum, in which I took only the text parts of the html conversion, comes out to be ~250k in rich-text format if all formatting is preserved.

 

The size for the total html conversion varies wildly depending on formatting and how pretty I make it look initially. From this I will say that I am not the best person to submit the manual.

It is a good idea to put the manual up here starting from what you have, though...