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PlayMaker News => PlayMaker Announcements => Topic started by: Alex Chouls on December 25, 2015, 08:45:37 PM

Title: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: Alex Chouls on December 25, 2015, 08:45:37 PM
Finally made some time to look into scraping the online docs to build an offline manual. Here is the first pass at this doc:

http://www.hutonggames.com/docs/PlaymakerManual.zip (http://www.hutonggames.com/docs/PlaymakerManual.zip)

The process is largely automatic, so we can take new snapshots as the online docs are updated :)

Please let me know if you run into any problems/bugs with these docs.

Looking into search libraries now, so you can search offline.

Then will be looking into other formats. Maybe chm, pdf, better printable css... Let me know if you have any ideas...

Happy Holidays!

Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: clandestine on December 26, 2015, 03:47:00 AM
Hey, a great Christmas gift Alex!!
Thanks and happy holidays!
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: memetic arts on December 26, 2015, 06:06:08 AM
Thanks for this, Alex!

PDF would be great (and then you've got search as a built-in feature, no?)

Cheers!
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: Alex Chouls on December 27, 2015, 03:18:30 AM
Yeah, looking into PDF now. I'm trying to figure out how to build the outline for a generated PDF. I need the process to be as automatic as possible, but it seems like most PDF tools want you to make the outline manually. But there should be a way to script it...

Also took another snapshot of the online wiki and updated the download in the first post.
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: 4ppleseed on December 30, 2015, 10:57:08 AM
Would love a simply formatted .pdf version I can print off.
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: Alex Chouls on December 30, 2015, 12:53:47 PM
Would you want the action reference section in the printable PDF? Considering splitting it into 2 pdfs: the manual and action reference. For people who don't want to print hundreds of pages of actions...
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: 4ppleseed on December 31, 2015, 04:22:10 AM
 I think as long as there isn't just one action per page and it was bunched together under categories into two separate docs would be fine.
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: Alex Chouls on January 04, 2016, 02:55:27 AM
Html download updated. Source code samples were not scraped properly. It's still missing syntax coloring, but I think the full manual is now captured, and new snapshots can be taken easily :)

Looking into pdf next...

Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: aa_lique on July 31, 2016, 01:31:43 PM
Thanks Alex
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: Ingsoc75 on November 17, 2017, 01:25:01 PM
Thanks. I work in an environment with no internet and having a local manual on my machine will be helpful!
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: JulieJohnson on July 08, 2020, 06:11:47 AM
thank for the infomation!
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: rpgmaker12 on July 11, 2020, 07:21:27 AM
Hey thanks, that´s very helpful, but like someone else said already,
a pdf would be amazing
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: Caranna00 on September 29, 2020, 03:17:44 AM
This is great!
Are there any news on the pdf-version?
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: gamergirlpetra on January 10, 2021, 12:16:14 PM
I agree, a pdf version would be lovely. Is there anything new about it? :)
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: Alex Chouls on January 26, 2021, 08:26:46 PM
The website and docs are getting a complete overhaul, about 80% done. The new static site generator we're using makes it much easier to generate pdfs, so they will be available when we launch the new site :)
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: GamerKing3000 on April 13, 2021, 12:46:13 PM
Hey Alex,

well these are some nice news. I always wanted an offline Manual. I am testing some games and I have to say god bless you that this app is so easy to understand.
I wanted to ask you, if you could some manuals inside of the app.

But well done ;) :D :D
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: zodhana@gmail.com on September 13, 2022, 11:38:15 AM
My Man my antivirus detect it as suspicious, can you just send me the pdf file  or doc into my email zodhana@gmail.com thanx :D
Title: Re: Playmaker Offline Manual
Post by: djaydino on September 14, 2022, 02:38:21 PM
Hi.
The pdf is probably very outdated.
you should be able to find the same info and probably more on this website :)