03 June 2008, 23:44 | #1 |
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Latest PDF manuals
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I grabbed the latest manuals on HOL. All programs I used say the same: It's not a PDF file or corrupt Retro-Nerd has check it too - but the same result Any ideas? Cheers Josh |
03 June 2008, 23:48 | #2 |
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@Josh
I didn't realise you could grab manuals off HOL - that could be very usefull for me Dave G |
04 June 2008, 00:36 | #3 |
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I've just downloaded Cannon Fodder manual (as I said earlier I didn't realise you could do this) and it's ok on my system. Although it was the German manual Windows XP with Adobe Reader 8 Dave G |
04 June 2008, 00:38 | #4 |
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Yes, the older archives (PDF's) are working fine. Only the latest files are corrupt
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04 June 2008, 00:44 | #5 |
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Can you give me an example? Dave G |
04 June 2008, 00:47 | #6 |
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Of course
Try Loom... ( Otherwise you could click on UPDATES button too, than you only have to search for the word manual...) Cheers Josh |
04 June 2008, 00:57 | #7 |
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I see what you mean It says it's not a PDF file. Looking at it with Wordpad you can see the difference between Loom and Cannonfodder. There's no PDF marker at the start of the Loom manual Dave G |
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Seem a grafic imagen, change the extension PDF for JPG and you see the cover of the Loom manual
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Doesn't really help but if you change the file extension to .PNG, .JPG or .TIF you will see an image of the front cover...
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04 June 2008, 01:13 | #10 |
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Yes now you've said that I can see the JFIF marker at the start of the file
But as you said thats no good Dave G |
04 June 2008, 01:16 | #11 |
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Looks like all of this newer manuals are the front covers only. They are too small for full manual scans.
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There might be a bug in the file uploader - RCK?
Older manuals were uploaded via FTP. EDIT: I've just checked the most recent manual I added (Legends CD32 - a couple of weeks ago) and it opens fine for me. Might be a problem with how some of the pdfs were made. I'll have a look at some others. Last edited by Galaxy; 04 June 2008 at 12:31. |
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Ok Loom opens fine for me, as does Crazy Cars 3. I just tested with Opera.
Are you guys who are having problems using IE by any chance (I seem to remember a similar error cropping up with IE in the past). I have a vague recollection it was something to do with Apache using gzip compression which confused IE. EDIT: See http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=34596 for further info |
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Try opening the downloaded zip with WinRAR
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This is no IE problem, i'm using Firefox.
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I had no ides that manuals can be downloaded.
I'm using latest Firefox and have tried to open few manuals stated in this thread. Loom and Crazy Cars doesen't work - when clicked on image it just opens dialog window "file does not begin with %PDF-" and when I download zip the pdf file in it is corrupt. And Loom and Crazy Cars III downloaded are cca 200kb for both, just as Retro-Nerd said. |
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I concur with what others have said, every manual uploaded after Legends (which works fine) is a JPEG with incorrect extension/mimetype. Using Opera or IE the result is the same as I've tested with both Foxit and Adobe plugins.
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