can't print Dark Avitar manual !!!

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Anyone try and print out the pdf manual, you can't! Have tried three different sets of computers and printers. Using adobe 8.0, it keeps freezing up and driving the printer crazy.

Tried to convert to word doc, and the doc is corrupted!

Has anyone else had this problem?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If your printer cannot handle spooling such a large printload at once as may well be the case, try printing only a few pages at a time. For example, print only pages 1-5 or 1-10, then the next 5 or 10, and so on until you have it all.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Perhaps I wasn't clear, I can't print any. I have tried 2 HP and an epson, which have printed out 300+ docs in the past, and I can't print ANY page from the manual, nor can I convert it to a word doc. Trust me it is not a spooling problem...

There is something very wrong with that pdf file!
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Prints fine for me, so I'm not sure what to tell you. It could well be an issue with Adobe 8, or something else. I use 7 myself with no issue at all.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Not sure what issues you are having but I just tried running off a few random pages, just to see, and everything worked fine. I know this reply doesn't help, but it at least should let Kryo know that this issue isn't 'across the board'. Maybe your download was corrupted?
edit: using adobe 7.0 myself.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I am also having some weird problems. At home to my Xerox Phaser 6120, it was printing one page at a time really slow. So I took the file to my office, and it drove the printer (a hefty Canon iR6000) nuts, freezing it until I rebooted the printer.

I'm using Adobe 6.

-HM
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've used both 6 and 8 same problem. What is truly odd is not being able to generate a word doc version, that you might then be able to print out.

Any chance Stardock will issue a word version of the manual for download. Kind of hard to playthe game without documentation
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Some additional information...I updated to Adobe 8 and attempted to print just page 1. When it was spooling out to the printer, the file size, according to the printer status window, kept creeping up until it was past 100 MB. And it still wasn't done sending to the printer.

This is undoubtedly why the thing never prints for me - the printer is taking too long to crunch something of that size.

-HM
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You may want to try printing at lower quality/DPI then.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I never figured out why my office printer wouldn't crunch the file. I sucked it up and printed the manual, albeit slowly, on my home printer. At least it worked.

For the record, it appears that Adobe Reader 7 makes much smaller spool files than Reader 8. Go figure.

On a completely side note, it didn't seem that the new manual explained anywhere how you can focus attention on research, industry, or military output by clicking on one of the three appropriate spots on the top of the planet management screen. I know it's in the original GalCiv2 manual, so maybe I'm just missing it.

-HM