What's the exact size of a Panorama Screen manual?

[MADrigal]

Hello,

first of all let me wish you all the very best possible new year 2012!

Now my question: what's the exact size of a Nintendo Panorama Screen manual?

I've been lucky enough to find almost all G&W manuals on this site:

http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?list.34

Pity that many of them are in extremely low graphics quality, making them undecipherable.

But the Panorama Screen games manual have a very nice quality, and I might use them in my simulators. But I need to know the exact paper size, because I need to scale them to the original size.

Thanks in advance for replying.

MADrigal
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[blanka]

If I open them, they are 12,56x8,64cm. Seems reasonable. It is about half the size of the Table top ones, which are 182x127mm (that one I measured myself in real). If you look in them, the TT pages are roughly split over 2 pages with a similar layout.

[MADrigal]

Thanks very very much!
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[blanka]

I'm not sure if it was totally clear: the measurement for the Panorama one is the size of the paper when you open the PDF. The TT one is measured from a real manual I have.

[MADrigal]

Oh man... that was NOT clear at all

By "open" I understood that you meant "open the (real) booklet".

I assume you dont have any real Panorama booklet?

PS: I just completed resizing/rescaling the PDF to the size you told me, and now I fear it was a useless job

Still waiting for the info from a real booklet.
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[blanka]

If it was a scan to PDF, usually the PDF's have the exact size of the original. I don't think it is much different.

[MADrigal]

The PDF was printed at 72 dpi, that's the problem.

What was the original DPI scan setting? 150? 120? 200? 100? 144?
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[blanka]

It might be scanned at 72 dpi too. As I said, when you look at the layout of both TT and Pano manuals, it would make perfect sense if the Pano is half size. I never resize PDF scans. They are just original size, no matter what resolution they are at. The only thing is that 72dpi has a less acurate round-off, but you need to be very nitpick to notice that.

[MADrigal]

By opening the PDF with Acrobat Professional, I was capable of grabbing the embedded jpg files, which were quite big - maybe 150 dpi, not sure, maybe more.

I have quite some experience in making PDF's, for my Creativemu websites (I scanned over 100 manuals of Creativision games).

Scanning files at 150 dpi -> saving them as JPG -> embedding them into PDF -> the file reports 96 dpi, but if you open the PDF file, you can grab the jpg file at high resolution (though it's not stated what the original DPI setting was). By printing the PDF file usually makes a paper of the same size as the original manual

Scanning files at 150 dpi -> saving them as GIF -> embedding them into PDF -> the file reports 96 dpi. If you print the file, it does NOT become as the original paper size, I think it's a problem with the GIF file format, which has no memory of the original DPI setting.

In the end... I'm still unsure of what's the original DPI setting - cause it's not always the same size as the PDF. Wish someone can reply my question!
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[MADrigal]

Just got an answer from an Italian collector friend.

Exact paper size is 104x70 mm, this means that the jpg files embedded in that PDF have 180 dpi setting.

Thanks to all the guys who took interest into this thread.
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