mistaken Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 please post requests with links, requests with out links will be ignored. Links to Diary PDF's: Angeldelayette's USPW a slow ride to the top BHK1978's RIPW: The Ballad of Henry Lee Big Papa 42's SWF - Generation Supreme d_w_w's MDC2: The Battle Rages On James Casey's MAW 10 simple rules - File also create by James Casey James Casey's SWF: Who is Richard Eisen? J Silver's USPW - 65 and older get in for free Mcshamrock's Pittsburgh Steel Wrestling Monkeypox's Mark Cuban Does DaVE! Nevermore's ECW: Worldwide No Neck's Secrets of the Ring Volume 1 No Neck's Secrets of the Ring Volume 2 No Neck's Secrets of the Ring Volume 3 Phantom Stranger's TCW A Quiet Retirement Scapino's SWF - This Means War.pdf Self's Frontier Combat Kingdom Future requests: [thread=157471]Angeldelayette's USPW - What? This Again?[/thread] - RAW [thread=51450]Angeldelayette's USPW: Long Hard Road From Cult[/thread] - RAW Scapino's MWA Shipshirt's MAW diary from 2007 Eisen-Verse's PSW: The Evolution of Greed Eisen-verse's WAR On The Vegas Strip... [thread=78107]Nobby's TNA game:[/thread] - RAW [thread=47697]Zeel1's TCW Diary?[/thread] - RAW James Casey's SWF: Supreme [thread=20515]Battle lines have been drawn.What if the NWA struck first....[/thread] [thread=21194]World Wrestling Federation: From Montreal To Attitude[/thread] [thread=46137]WWWF: Re-writing History: No Hulk/No Vince (D.O.T.T)[/thread] [thread=39102]Ring of Honor-We Don't Imitate...We Innovate (2002)[/thread] - RAW As Always a thank you after downloading is appreciated! [thread=36338]Hall of Records[/thread] - a link to a lot of celebrated content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Roguey Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Glad to see these were saved, I love reading through old dynasties from time to time to see how to improve and just take in great pieces of work. Thanks for re-uploading them mistaken! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistaken Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 requests?!? I think I am up for trying one or two more of these. most votes gets done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Casey Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 I've just realised that someone did Scap's (first) SWF diary as a PDF a while back. I'll upload it when I get a chance. The document author's listed as eramsdel, but I don't recognise the name from the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belton Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Thanks for doing this! These are great to read on my iPad when I'm off the grid. I'd actually love a guide for how to do this, just so that I can back up my own! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistaken Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Thanks for doing this! These are great to read on my iPad when I'm off the grid. I'd actually love a guide for how to do this, just so that I can back up my own! how to pdf a diary 1) go through the diary and pull every single post by the author (I do this with a program I wrote to parse the pages, oddly enough it's written as a macro in an excel workbook) 2) use a pdf printer to print the singly saved out pages (I use bullzip with the setting set to custom, to auto name and put the files in an certain order, based on the post count number) 3) go through every page to determine if it is "part of the diary" or an ooc post that should no longer be part of the diary (things like vote pages, or results or responses to personal statements are better left out, as there is no context for that in a non interactive form. they of course stay in, if they "part of the story' type post 4) use a tool to take all of the pages that have made the cut and bind them together as one pdf (I use PDfill, but I am sure there are other tools that would do the job. often I have to bind smaller sub sets of say 100 post together, and then bind the 3 or 4 large peices together, to prevent an error in the process from killing the job) I hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdStringPG Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Great thread! I strongly suggest this thread be stickied. I also find these PDF versions handy, as it allows me to read TEW diaries while on the road and without any access to the Internet... If I can make a request...how about James Casey's SWF: Who is Richard Eisen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belton Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 how to pdf a diary 1) go through the diary and pull every single post by the author (I do this with a program I wrote to parse the pages, oddly enough it's written as a macro in an excel workbook) 2) use a pdf printer to print the singly saved out pages (I use bullzip with the setting set to custom, to auto name and put the files in an certain order, based on the post count number) 3) go through every page to determine if it is "part of the diary" or an ooc post that should no longer be part of the diary (things like vote pages, or results or responses to personal statements are better left out, as there is no context for that in a non interactive form. they of course stay in, if they "part of the story' type post 4) use a tool to take all of the pages that have made the cut and bind them together as one pdf (I use PDfill, but I am sure there are other tools that would do the job. often I have to bind smaller sub sets of say 100 post together, and then bind the 3 or 4 large peices together, to prevent an error in the process from killing the job) I hope this helps. Hey, thanks! I have no such program nor can I figure out how to automate just pulling a single user's post, but I found even doing it manually it's easier to dump it all as raw text into something like OpenOffice or Word and print to PDF from there - surely that would be simpler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistaken Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Hey, thanks! I have no such program nor can I figure out how to automate just pulling a single user's post, but I found even doing it manually it's easier to dump it all as raw text into something like OpenOffice or Word and print to PDF from there - surely that would be simpler? simpler is a relative statement No matter how you do it, scanning the some times 1000's of post in a diary takes time. The export to HTML, makes editing the format easy. Plus I can strip some of the grey dog framing off the page, and do text editing with little fuss. print to PDF then retains the lay out. cut and pasting to word programs often kills or alters formatting lay out and other HTML features. Is my way Simpler? Probably not, but you asked for a step by step, so i gave you my steps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Casey Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 For WIRE (and Supreme) pdfing them is easy enough - they're both in Word documents, fully formatted and ready to go. They lack pictures, but until and unless mistaken get's very bored they should do as a stopgap. I'll try and do them soon. In the meantime, and with all credit to the original compiler, Scapino's SWF diary can be found at http://rapidshare.com/files/507166472/SWF.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistaken Posted February 28, 2013 Author Share Posted February 28, 2013 For WIRE (and Supreme) pdfing them is easy enough - they're both in Word documents, fully formatted and ready to go. They lack pictures, but until and unless mistaken get's very bored they should do as a stopgap. I'll try and do them soon. In the meantime, and with all credit to the original compiler, Scapino's SWF diary can be found at http://rapidshare.com/files/507166472/SWF.pdf James, Do you mind if I down that and reup it with the rest? just so they are all in one place. (commense scolding for all eggs in one basket . . . got burned on that with megaupload) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Casey Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Go ahead. My RS account is a freebie, anyway, so I can't vouch for how long the link will last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistaken Posted March 1, 2013 Author Share Posted March 1, 2013 James Casey's SWF: Who is Richard Eisen? i just pulled and edited the whole thing tomorrow I will take the last 10 min to pdf print and pdf merge the whole thing. now off to big bang i go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistaken Posted March 1, 2013 Author Share Posted March 1, 2013 can't get to the rapid share file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistaken Posted March 1, 2013 Author Share Posted March 1, 2013 James Casey's SWF: Who is Richard Eisen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdStringPG Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 James Casey's SWF: Who is Richard Eisen? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michgcs Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Nice compilation you've got there, mistaken... any classic real world diaries? Diaries like TFC's ROH game: http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39102 or Nobby's TNA game: http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=78107 Stuff like that... Those two are basically the ones I came up with when I joined GDS, so if there are other ones, maybe you can add 'em to my wish list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Casey Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 can't get to the rapid share file Odd. It's locked for me too as I'm not logged into RS. I'll sort it out tonight, I probably just need to edit the permission or something. I'm new to RS, so I'm still figuring out how it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steev42 Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I've just realised that someone did Scap's (first) SWF diary as a PDF a while back. I'll upload it when I get a chance. The document author's listed as eramsdel, but I don't recognise the name from the forum. That would be me. I still have a copy as well, if it's needed. In fact, just uploaded it to my own site. SWF - This Means War Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Sam Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I'm wondering, could someone make Eisen-verse's WAR On The Vegas Strip... and Phantom Stranger's TCW: A Quiet Retirement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonmack Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I'm wondering, could someone make Eisen-verse's WAR On The Vegas Strip... and Phantom Stranger's TCW: A Quiet Retirement? there's already one there for TCW: A Quiet Retirement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1PWfan Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Downloaded FCW and 10 Simple Rules- thanks mistaken, this thread is invaluable as a source of old ideas on presentation and storylines. I think you deserve the thanks of every writer in this board for your work on archiving some of the classic dynasties this game has produced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistaken Posted March 5, 2013 Author Share Posted March 5, 2013 Good News, Bad News, Good News Good News: I started working on Nevermore's ECW: Worldwide Bad News: the Excel program I use just won't work anymore (not sure why) Good News: I went and looked into PHP command line, and i have rewritten the script, and it works better faster and stronger than ever. More Good News: I am going to try and turn the code into an executable, so that you can all use the tool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistaken Posted March 6, 2013 Author Share Posted March 6, 2013 offer to any author, I will run the script on your sites, zip the contents and post them up for you to grab. you can then filter through them, and do one of two things. 1) pdf it up your self, and make it available OR 2) Get the files back to me an I will PDF the pages and assemble and put them up on upload hero. hit me with a PM if you are interested. please include the link to each diary you want done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigpapa42 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Still think its awesome that you are tackling these, mistaken. I've grabbed a bunch and need to find the time to re-read them. Nevermore's ECW would be an great addition... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.