Request for INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL scans

[MADrigal]

Hello,

I'm planning to update a few handheld/G&W simulators of mine, with enhanced graphics, high resolution manuals, etc.

I need fresh scans of manuals (in English) of the following games:

- Mattel D&D (better version than the one on the Handheldmuseum website)
- Gakken Towering rescue
- Nintendo Mickey Mouse (wide screen)
- Tomy Pacman

If anyone has the manuals listed above, please send me private message or contact me via my website:

www.madrigaldesign.it/sim/

Tnx in advance
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[Rik]

Heh, the D&D and Tomy Pac-Man must have been some of my earliest scans... They appear to be 300DPI, and I don't even have 600DPI scans of them (which I scan all of my manuals at now)... Might be time to re-do those...

[MADrigal]

The scan of D&D on the handheldmuseum website is in black & white, but the original manual is in cyan ink.

The Pacman manual scans seems good to me.

What's the exact paper size of both manuals?
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[Rik]

The PDFs open to the original size of the manuals... If you print them at 100%, you get the actual size... D&D is actually 16 tiny pages (about the size of the game) vs the way I made the PDF originally, I'll fix that too.

I can probably re-scan the D&D manual, but it will still scan black&white (I scan them all 1-bit true monochrome, since that's how they are printed, and 'black' is the only option for the color.) You can then change the color to a cyan color if you want it to match the real manual...

Some of them use horrible color choices for the manuals (like light yellow, which is impossible to read and scan it seems, and other pale shades that just don't scan well... at least when trying to make monochrome scans.) I was originally worried about server space back in the day, so that's also why I wanted monochrome (not sure why I never bothered to at least match the color though). The goal was just readable manuals for the most part. That's not an issue anymore, so I probably could scan the colored ones as RGB... Just seemed pointless to make a file 10x the size just to get a single color scanned.

I can scan color versions of the D&D manual at the same time if you want (makes them huge though, I don't use lossy compression on the files normally, but I can make them JPGs or just upload TIFs to the site for you). Do you like 300 or 600 DPI?

[blanka]

In InDesign, you can apply for example Cyan or any Pantone colour to a black-n-white tif, and then export it to PDF with monochrome compression. Then you have the original colour and the efficiency of B&W.

By using a Pantone-swatch-library you can even work more accurate than scanning in colour. If you apply an out-of-CMYK-gamut ink to a B&W image, people with fancy printers might still be able to print it the original colour.
And it is much easier. A flat-bed scanner is way less accurate than holding a swatch next to the ink.

[MADrigal]

> The PDFs open to the original size of the manuals...
> If you print them at 100%, you get the actual size...

Thanks!


> D&D is actually 16 tiny pages (about the size of the
> game) vs the way I made the PDF originally, I'll fix
> that too.

Thanks again

If you could re-scan the manual at full colours mode, I'll be able to grab the actual ink colour.

300 dpi + png mode will be great for me. I usually downscale them at 96 a while before embedding them into the simulator.

Thanks much

PS: my email address is still the same. I sent you an email yesterday, concerning the new release of the 3 Elektronika simulators
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[MADrigal]

Hi Rik,

could you *please* send me scans from the following manuals?

Quite urgent:

- Dungeons & Dragons

- Donkey Kong Jr - Coleco tabletop


Both scans I need in full colour mode, 300 DPI.

Please...

Luca
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[Rik]

Not forgotten... I will try to get these scanned in the next day or two if you still need them...

[MADrigal]

Yes I still need them.

I want to update the simulators to the latest standard, but I need high-res manuals.

Thanks in advance
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