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I've sent Brad the Word and PDF versions I made from the original PDF manual. The new versions are around 1.2 MB each and are much easier to read and print out a lot better. I'm waiting to get some feedback from him since the files I made could need some additions or corrections before they can be released. I don't expect to hear from him until later today since it looks like he had a pretty late night. I think the tech, project, wonder and trade good information would be a logical a

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Brad, I'm going to go ahead and TRY to send via e-mail. If it works, then you should have the file within the hour. If it doesn't, you'll probably get an e-mail with the attachment dropped off by my outgoing server. If that happens, just let me know an alternative method to get the file to you. FTP is always good, as is sending the file via one of the messenger services, I have accounts on both MSN and Yahoo. ~SDC~

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Brad, Actually, seeing as the zip file is around 2.6 MB for the two versions, would you happen to have an FTP where I could upload the file? If so, please e-mail me the information to access the FTP server. I can try and e-mail the zip file to you, but I'm not 100% sure how my ISP's mail server will deal with the large attachment. ~SDC~

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Brad, I'm home now, going to do the conversion to PDF, zip up the files and send it out via e-mail. It may take a while since I'm still working off a slow dial-up from home but you'll have them in an hour or two. ~SDC~

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Brad, I will send you the Microsoft Word file tonight when I get home. I have done a quick proofread on it and the layout is as close to the original manual as the OCR program could get it... it looks pretty good and is much much much smaller than the PDF version sent with the game. I will convert this to a PDF file and send it as well. I'd also be willing to work with you if any updates to the manual are necessary. Az ~SDC~

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Only 4 hours? You're lucky... on a very high speed line here that can get over 700k/sec from Symantec's web site and the Multi pack has been going for about 4+ hours and is just over half way finished... looks like tonight I'll be playing the game without the Multi pack installed since I leave work in a little over an hour. ~SDC~

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I have the OCR done to Microsoft Word. I'll try to give it a read through and see if I can catch some of the grammar errors. If nothing else this will give you guys a huge starting point to a smaller, easier to read version of the manual. I'll check and make sure I can covert the Quark Express, perhaps you could "cut out" one or two pages into a separate file and send that (or place on an FTP) and I can try the conversation to make sure it's worth the effort of transferring the whole

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Frogboy.... Did you say Quark Express....? Maybe we're in luck... I might be able to convert that file format! Is there any way you could send me that original file? ~SDC~

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I'm trying to do a thorough job so I might not be able to send it out until tonight. I want to make sure that it's at least an acceptable 1.0 version before I send it off to you guys. There MAY be some proofreading that needs to be done as I know I won't catch all of the OCR errors that might pop up. I am also at work right now trying to download the multimedia pack before I head home, but it looks like it'll be about 100 MB short, I'm glad you can play without it. I'll send Word and PDF ver

Galactic Civilizations Manual in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I was wondering if the GalCiv development team would be interested in a Microsoft Word format version of the game manual? I decided to OCR the whole thing because I didn't want to deal with loading a 53MB, unsearchable PDF into Acrobat Reader whenever I wanted to look something up in the manual. It should also print much cleaner (and a savings in ink used) with the graphic background removed. I am in the process of doing a quick spell check on the file. This could also be eas

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Let me add my thanks as well. :) Hopefully this will make things go a lot more smoothly. Will you post the link to download this file on the message board, the main GalCiv downloads page or send it via e-mail to registered Drengin/GalCiv users? ~SDC~

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I would also probably prefer downloading one big file to backup to CD, though you could have both available as options. I'm on a business line that usually gets anywhere from 100k/sec up to 700k/sec downloads so one big file is no problem. The download through SDC has been pretty slow so far. Averaging less than 25k/sec most of the time. Your bandwidth must be really eat up right now or something is limiting the available bandwidth per user. Having the one big file to downlo

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That sounds like a great idea. The one (or two) piece download would include the install routine? This would bypass the need to use SD Central to restore and install the backup copies of the downloaded components? ~SDC~