Uploading PDF's and ZIP's

[Lish]

I uploaded a zip file including covers and pdf's of the game manual.  The upload completed and then reported that the upload was not an image file.

I assume that the upload was OK but no image could be displayed in the upload confirmation.  If this is the case than all is OK.  If not, how do I send PDF's of Manuals?

Regards
LISH

[TheValeman]

PM Snowcone and get him to give you FTP access. I have uploaded around 90 pdf manuals for N64 and that was/is the only way to do it due to limitations of the upload script. I still have a few to do at this point in time.

Note when uploading manuals that we want 300dpi scans for those too. This makes for a larger file ... up to 20mb's in some cases ... but we pride ourselves on quality. Let me know if you need details on how to standardise them for this site.

[Lish]

Yep, the manual is in 300 DPI.  I created two PDF's...Standard and Hi Quality (3MB and 17MB respectively).  I couldn't tell the difference by looking at them, so the higher compression of the standard format doesn't seem to hurt.

[wshbrngr]

Actually, Snowcone had made an adjustment to the upload script to allow .pdf files to go, but it may have been the .zip that was the problem.
What I have done is upload the (.jpg) covers and the (.pdf) manuals separately.....
FTP access eliminates this need, though.

[Snowcone]

Uploading zips is blocked, but the PDFs do go through. Try them individually and lable them high and standard quality. With that big of a drop in filesize and no noticeable degradation I'd say standard is the way to go. There is a filesize limit that I haven't been able to work around on this server and so files over about 6MB in size don't do so well with my download script.