Posted April 24, 2015
Retrograde: I found my copy of the manual from the DOS version I had back in the day, it's not in the greatest of shape but still serviceable. Here are some pictures of it, i just came across a printer/scanner someone was throwing away, if i can manage to get it to run I'll see about scanning the manual in (it's only 61 pages so not as thick as some may remember but still pretty decent). Maybe GOG can include it on the site if the quality is up to snuff.
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T-Prime: Any progress? :) http://imgur.com/13XNp1m
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Got the game here in the German edition. Been playing around a bit with the manual in Photoshop Elements, but in the end decided to stop, too much hassle with the layout. Would be faster if I redid it all in Word. German Manual I have has rather small low resolution photos.
If I had high resolution scans of the images in the manual (600 dpi) I could put it together in a short time. Have a good scanner here, got the English text as a .txt file. Needs grammar checking and the full text is written with barely a period/paragraph now and then, annoying to read it, but just copy & paste and reading to do. Still faster than typing everything by myself or even translating it all back from German to English.
If I took the images I have, the quality would be pretty low. Wish somebody could send me that manual in English, then I could work on it, scan all the pages, clean the images, if necessary. In the end I'd could create a PDF from it again. I'd use a different font, since the one EA used is copy right protected, but still looks like Arial / Arial Bold. While at it I could also change the size of the pages, to standard size, would be nicer to print out. I don't like switching back and forth between game and PDF viewer.