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RayCarrot wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 4:58 pm - There's an unused third Livid Dead map named "Don't Shoot the Dead" right before the final boss

ZelenPixel wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 7:26 pm seems like we were going to have an extra hard mosquito segment in land of the livid dead too??/ thatd slap so hard

Yes, it was teased in the daily bubble way back in issue 9: Secrets.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160224002 ... itionNum=9

Wait, there were gonna be Zombie Chickens in there too? That would've been a nice touch…

oh i remember readin the daily bubble but i just never noticed that entirely i guess
would be super cool though

RayCarrot wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 8:50 pm Other than what's there? No, but I don't think Origins was ever translated to more languages.

My bad, I missed the languages section the first time.

Elite Piranha wrote: Sat May 02, 2020 1:16 am Thanks for the code, it works fine, the only problem left is that there are 3 lines of text that come out of the page for some reason (which can only be fixed by zooming out the page). What worries me about using the browser to create a PDF file is how different it is from the original source; even if you add the images that are missing, the font and distribution of the texts are different, and the format of the pages is vertical instead of horizontal.

Strange, I don't have this problem. Just the missing images.

MasterHero wrote: Sat May 02, 2020 11:40 am Yes, it was teased in the daily bubble way back in issue 9: Secrets.

Now that's well hidden!

Hunchman801 wrote: Sat May 02, 2020 6:00 pm

Elite Piranha wrote: Sat May 02, 2020 1:16 am Thanks for the code, it works fine, the only problem left is that there are 3 lines of text that come out of the page for some reason (which can only be fixed by zooming out the page). What worries me about using the browser to create a PDF file is how different it is from the original source; even if you add the images that are missing, the font and distribution of the texts are different, and the format of the pages is vertical instead of horizontal.

Strange, I don't have this problem. Just the missing images.

What browser are you using? If you don't have the same problem that I have, maybe you could share your PDF file and someone else can add the missing images.

I used Chrome. Here's the result:

Hunchman801 wrote: Sun May 03, 2020 7:06 pm I used Chrome. Here's the result:

I also used Chrome and got the same result. It looks very different from the original website. I wonder if it possible to make a PDF with screenshots and then use Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert it to a searchable PDF (mine doesn't work). I think there are even websites that allow you to convert PDF images to searchable PDFs, but I don't know if they work.

Elite Piranha wrote: Sun May 03, 2020 8:00 pm I also used Chrome and got the same result. It looks very different from the original website. I wonder if it possible to make a PDF with screenshots and then use Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert it to a searchable PDF (mine doesn't work). I think there are even websites that allow you to convert PDF images to searchable PDFs, but I don't know if they work.

I googled "PDF OCR" and I got plenty of results, you might want to try one of those online services.

I had pretty bad experience with the online PDF OCRs, but Adobe Acrobat Pro or Foxit PhantomPDF worked rather well for the few scanned manuals I've uploaded in the past few months. Not perfect, but at least 80% correct, maybe 90%.

I tried 2 sites that convert PDF images into readable PDFs, one didn't work and the other one recognized the text but didn't gave me the result I wanted.

I also tried using a Chrome extension that allows you capture an entire website exactly the way it looks and save it as one large image (you can also save it as multiple pages, but the website is not cut properly). The text in the PDF doesn't look very good, but it looks fine in the PNG image. The name of the extension is "Full Page Screen Capture" in case anyone wants to try it.

Btw, it seems that the wiki only has the english, french and russian manuals of Rayman Origins, so I thought it could be useful to preserve these too:

German
https://web.archive.org/web/20200504033 ... am/manual/

Italian
https://web.archive.org/web/20200504033 ... am/manual/

Polish
https://web.archive.org/web/20200504034 ... am/manual/

But they're HTML too, I see. Any progress with the OCR?

Hunchman801 wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 1:39 am But they're HTML too, I see. Any progress with the OCR?

I gave up since I couldn't find a way to properly save the PDF. I didn't expect that saving a website would be that much of a problem. For the time being I saved a png of the entire page to at least have a snapshot of how the site originally looked like. I assume that even if some parts of the website get lost, the texts will always be available in the Wayback Machine.

As I have written before, I have all language manual PDFs for Rayman Origins. They came with the CD version. I'll upload the missing ones.

dr_st wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 8:43 am As I have written before, I have all language manual PDFs for Rayman Origins. They came with the CD version. I'll upload the missing ones.

Awesome! Thanks a lot for uploading them.

Edit: I've already added them to the Rayman Origins page.

Finished uploading the rest and added links to the English Rayman Origins page. I'll leave it to the other editors to add it to the other wikis, if they wish.

Note that there are two versions of the English and French manuals. They have the same textual content, but differ in formatting and imagery.

dr_st wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 9:28 pm Finished uploading the rest and added links to the English Rayman Origins page. I'll leave it to the other editors to add it to the other wikis, if they wish.

Note that there are two versions of the English and French manuals. They have the same textual content, but differ in formatting and imagery.

Thanks a lot for adding them, it's good to have all the manuals in one place .

Yep, thanks for taking care of this.

I've been playing Origins on Vita lately to get the rest of the relic screenshots, and reword the articles while I'm at it. I'm slowly but surely getting there, but I get sidetracked a lot.

Well, you're more than halfway, it seems, so I'm not too worried about you getting there one day.

Next is Legends.

Yeah I'm getting there slowly but surely.

Hunchman801 wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 8:15 pm Next is Legends.

I think I should stop getting sidetracked then!