Can errata be inserted into pdf files?
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far-trader
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Unlikely. If irc they're protected. At the very least you'd need the full version of Adobe Acrobat (not just the free reader).
You might be able to (using the OCR of the text) cut and paste the whole text into a word processor file and do it there. You'd have to do a lot of reformatting I expect.
You might be able to (using the OCR of the text) cut and paste the whole text into a word processor file and do it there. You'd have to do a lot of reformatting I expect.
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you'l need a PDF unlocker, and Acrobat or another PDF editor.
For passage replacement:
you go in, paste in a small white space (made in another program), then copy some of the text into the margin, make the correction text, then move that text back to the spot you need it.
For data correction: just use acrobat to edit the OCR text version.
If you don't have the OCR text version... use the above process, but you'll need to import a page with text in the right size and font to get acrobat to accept it.
Ovis PDF Office will let you simply overwrite specific bits...
For passage replacement:
you go in, paste in a small white space (made in another program), then copy some of the text into the margin, make the correction text, then move that text back to the spot you need it.
For data correction: just use acrobat to edit the OCR text version.
If you don't have the OCR text version... use the above process, but you'll need to import a page with text in the right size and font to get acrobat to accept it.
Ovis PDF Office will let you simply overwrite specific bits...
I took the exact opposite approach.
I built a template & just dumped all of the text into it, 1 document per page. I then made corrections, added errata, added other stuff I found interesting etc. You could hand-type that, but I found it easier to OCR the documents that I had (I have a complete set of Challenge Mags, and a whole lot of other stuff I collected or wrote over the years.)
Then I formatted it into a PDF (save as PDF).
Merged the PDF files into 1 PDF.
Screamed a lot as I discovered errors I made or missed.
Made corrections & then PDFed the documents again.
The tables I built in Word - nested tables - don't do that. No, really you DON'T want to do that. (Word should not have a frame rate.)
After I built the individual PDFs, I merged them into chapters. Then I merged them into 1 document, along with a Table of Contents (hand-jammed that one)
Then I designed a new cover thus justifying my purchase of way too much software - Shader 8, Poser Pro, Vue 6, then Vue 7. (Which reminds me, I need to go back & add some artwork back into my copy.)
Merged everything 1 last time & voila!
My very own, 1-of-a-kind MT Referee's Manual. I am about 1/2 way done with the other manuals.
As a side note, I also moved around content among the manuals. For example, I was never all that interested in the Rebellion Time-line, (I use the GURPS time-line), so everything that was related to the Rebellion was dumped into my copy of the Rebellion Sourcebook. My copy of FSOSI will have corrected values for all ships (yes, I am a glutton for punishment.), I am redesigning all of the ships so that they make sense.
I have used this system for all of the manuals, plus books that were planned but never published. One day, I'll have all of my MT stuff done like this.
Oh, 1 last thing, I color-coded anything that I added to the original text. That way I knew what was really canon vs. what I added in.
I built a template & just dumped all of the text into it, 1 document per page. I then made corrections, added errata, added other stuff I found interesting etc. You could hand-type that, but I found it easier to OCR the documents that I had (I have a complete set of Challenge Mags, and a whole lot of other stuff I collected or wrote over the years.)
Then I formatted it into a PDF (save as PDF).
Merged the PDF files into 1 PDF.
Screamed a lot as I discovered errors I made or missed.
Made corrections & then PDFed the documents again.
The tables I built in Word - nested tables - don't do that. No, really you DON'T want to do that. (Word should not have a frame rate.)
After I built the individual PDFs, I merged them into chapters. Then I merged them into 1 document, along with a Table of Contents (hand-jammed that one)
Then I designed a new cover thus justifying my purchase of way too much software - Shader 8, Poser Pro, Vue 6, then Vue 7. (Which reminds me, I need to go back & add some artwork back into my copy.)
Merged everything 1 last time & voila!
My very own, 1-of-a-kind MT Referee's Manual. I am about 1/2 way done with the other manuals.
As a side note, I also moved around content among the manuals. For example, I was never all that interested in the Rebellion Time-line, (I use the GURPS time-line), so everything that was related to the Rebellion was dumped into my copy of the Rebellion Sourcebook. My copy of FSOSI will have corrected values for all ships (yes, I am a glutton for punishment.), I am redesigning all of the ships so that they make sense.
I have used this system for all of the manuals, plus books that were planned but never published. One day, I'll have all of my MT stuff done like this.
Oh, 1 last thing, I color-coded anything that I added to the original text. That way I knew what was really canon vs. what I added in.
I used Microsoft Document Imaging which can take TIF files and compile them into a multi-page document, similar to a PDF. It can then perform an OCR on them.
It came free as part of XP.
I've also done things where I've taken PDFs that are images, using foo-labs tools and extracted all the images. Turned them into TIFs and then rebuilt them as MDI (above) files including OCR. Depends on how good the images are. Some are HUGE 450 megs+ per book (I only did a few of those) but can be useful, especially if it's a book that you do a lot of look-ups on.
I've scanned several Traveller books or partials, including the T4 Central Supply catalog and the Paul Sanders Reaver's Deep book, just so I have the Timeline and Library Data in a searchable format. The maps and planetary data I can get off TravellerMap.com -- however that could all be sandwiched together as well.
I've done a few FASA books, like Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector and a couple of others, like the Traveller Chronicle #7 which has another Pilot's Guide to the Reaver's Deep subsector as well.
Mostly to see if I could do it and how well it would turn out.
The Paul Sander's stuff is just ugly, I darkened it enough to get an OCR out of it, but it's tough to read. It just didn't scan good.
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Aramis,
I appreciate your defense of Marc's copyright. But just as DRM issues have strangled many a computer game, overzealousness with copyright is going to strangle MT.
I have four players who are willing to learn MT because I told them it will be a fun game. Not only do they have to a learn a confusing and poorly written set of rules, but now I have to explain to them that they must check 20+ pages of errata. MT is a 20-year-old game, and attracting new players is hard enough. Now we're raising even more barriers.
So you might want to discuss this with Marc. Yes, if players share files, there is a chance that a few CDs might not be sold. A small chance, because I don't see 50,000 kids clamoring to download MegaTraveller. It's an old game with an aging fan base, and the best way to rejuvenate it is to allow users to share content.
DT
I appreciate your defense of Marc's copyright. But just as DRM issues have strangled many a computer game, overzealousness with copyright is going to strangle MT.
I have four players who are willing to learn MT because I told them it will be a fun game. Not only do they have to a learn a confusing and poorly written set of rules, but now I have to explain to them that they must check 20+ pages of errata. MT is a 20-year-old game, and attracting new players is hard enough. Now we're raising even more barriers.
So you might want to discuss this with Marc. Yes, if players share files, there is a chance that a few CDs might not be sold. A small chance, because I don't see 50,000 kids clamoring to download MegaTraveller. It's an old game with an aging fan base, and the best way to rejuvenate it is to allow users to share content.
DT
I don't have contact with Marc, myself.
What I have is requests and requirements passed down via Hunter and Don.
Subject is closed, DTO. What you do elsewhere, 'taint my concern. Me, I'd love corrected files. But I may neither ask for them and, should I acquire them, I may not offer them here. Those are Hunter's rules for this board.
What I have is requests and requirements passed down via Hunter and Don.
Subject is closed, DTO. What you do elsewhere, 'taint my concern. Me, I'd love corrected files. But I may neither ask for them and, should I acquire them, I may not offer them here. Those are Hunter's rules for this board.
Ranana_occutt
SOC-3
Can errata be inserted into pdf files
Import PDF Files into Quark Xpress 4,Quark Xpress 5 Am new returning after several years to Quark and using an older version.
Am trying to import .pdf files from clients and cannot seem to find a way...???
Can anyone help?
Import PDF Files into Quark Xpress 4,Quark Xpress 5 Am new returning after several years to Quark and using an older version.
Am trying to import .pdf files from clients and cannot seem to find a way...???
Can anyone help?
Space Hamster
SOC-12
If you have the full version of Acrobat you can add sticky notes on the document where the errata are. If you cursor over the sticky note a box pops up with the text you had put in the note.
Wow... never heard these promises... My understanding is that we're working on fixing the problems with the various individual PDFs, but as far as fixing all the errata and creating dynamic spreadsheets, I'd like to see where he said that.
As much as I would love that, it would be time I'd rather he spend on T5.
I think someone's confounding the MT and T5 projects together.
I'm thinking about doing this. I find that new version of Adobe Acrobat do a good job of OCR then dumping into Word. As for nested tables, I have found the WordPerfect does a good job at that.
If I do this, I'll probably pick up a copies of the three books off Ebay and pull them apart for better scanning. We'll I might keep them and pull apart my old shelf copies.
Have you come across any other pitfalls? How's your progress on the other two (or more) books?
-Swiftbrook
E.D.Quibell
SOC-13
No. It isn't legal.
Furthermore, I am taking some liberties with how the ships are built.
The problem is you simply can't convert the ships in High Guard to MT. The systems are too dissimilar. Requirements are different too. In CT, the fleet standard is J4 G6. In MT, it is J4, G4. This makes a real difference in design philosophy.
The folks that made a mess of FSOI were very rigid in design. They just took a particular size of hull & stuck as many weapons on it as they could. With the space left over they added drives. This makes fleet tactics almost impossible, because the fleet must take the speed of the slowest ship. One simply can not execute the large scale fleet strategy that is written in canon with the ships in MT.
I could go on & on & on with this subject. The canon 3I fleet is simply not rational. IMTU, the fleet is rational & the fleet is designed around the philosophy that is written about in CT & MT.
This makes other changes to the 3I fleet. IMTU, all Imperial ships must meet the following:
J4 4G, (2 exeptions - BBs & Tankers are J4 3G)
Tech 15.
The Colonial fleet is as above at TL 14. TL 13 & below are either scrapped or upgraded to TL 14 or 15 standards. Makes logistics much, much easier.
For those worlds that have Jump capable ships, if their world can not support that tech level, they have to get a maintenance contract, or get their yard upgraded. Smart planetary nobles get their yard upgraded. Which in turn helps boost the planetary tech level, which brings in more money, which raises the importance of that world in the subsector economy.
My approach is to ensure that my MT ships have the same capabilities as the HG ships.
In my point of view, it doesn't matter if a Tigress DN is 500,000 or 700,000 tons. What matters is that a Tigress is a huge ship with state-of-the-art weaponry and it's own fleet of small craft.
