Dramatic SFB: how do you get electronic versions of the rule books?

Don Lavanty emeketos at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 00:14:55 PST 2019


I just wish they would finish putting all the rule books in PDF form
its easier to have 7 PDF's open that are searchable than having 7 paper
books that are not.


On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:05 PM Matthew via SFBdrama <
sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:

>
> > I'm guessing you have electronic sfb rule books as you copy and paste
> > the rules so quickly.
>
> I went the hard route: Scanned and OCRd my entire collection (SSDs and
> Rules). Then converted them to HTML format (with links). Was truck
> driving, so had plenty of time for tedious "Spend an hour here
> spellchecking and formatting", "Spend and hour there doing the same".
> Set up scripts to handle the gross-adjustments on the images and to
> convert bits of text into other bits of text.
>
> The result is that I have most of the rules modules in a 75M zip file,
> with all rules hyperlinked, searchable, and C&P-able. SSDs are about
> 325MB, in a printer-friendly format. All are downloadable and also
> readable from computers not-not-my-own. Protected from very-casual
> internet gurus, so I have DMCA cover. A very nice setup, if I say so
> myself.
>
> The downside is that I am not truck driving now. New material is added
> *very* slowly. Module C6 I got when it came out, has been integrated.
> Module C4 and G3 I have had for about 2 years and both are not fully
> integrated, but parts of both are.
>
> --Matt
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