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

Don Lavanty emeketos at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 00:16:12 PST 2019


they can also be found on drivethruRPG and their other site. wargaming??

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:14 AM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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