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Originally Posted by battists
It does, depending on your settings in Game Preferences under "Online Settings" (or online something, I don't have the game in front of me right now.)
By default it's set to "update older files" which means that it will update files that have changed and are more than a week old. If you have a persistent internet connection, you can change it to "download always," which makes the help open a tiny bit slower, but will ensure you get new pages as soon as they are available when you try to open them.
Thanks,
Steve
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With either of these features, the manual is updated automatically, correct? So, I will always have the most current manual (and ultimately the final version) as long as I start the game occasionally. I just checked, the size of the Help folder is 34.5MB, comparable to the OOTP2007 manual which was 19.9MB. So, I already have an up-to-date manual on my computer and all I have to do to look at it off-line is create a shortcut by right-clicking on the toc.html file, dragging it to the desktop, and selecting "Create Shortcut here."
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Originally Posted by ootp3to6
I would like to be able to download a "PDF" file for the OOTP 9 manual if at all possible. Please reconsider. Thank you.
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So why do we need a PDF file? Well, the only reasons that I can see are:
- You cannot search the computer version of the manual (that is, away from the game and its F1 context capability) like you can the online version,
- You cannot take the manual with you by copying the entire folder onto a flash drive, including the shortcut. Something gets left behind apparently because some images are missing, and
- Uninstalling the game deletes the computer manual. Let's say it's years from now when the OOTP 9 manual is no longer online and is not updating the computer version any more. That means if the latest version of the manual was not included in the last patch, then it will be lost forever.
If you can remedy these issues, then yes, we don't need a PDF version IMO.