Found it! bally parts manual 1980 or 1981 pdf or original

stevebm1 · Oct 3, 2015

does anyone have a pdf of the 1980 or 1981 bally parts manual?,or an original they wish to sell?

thanks in advance

paddythegreek · Oct 3, 2015

I might be able to contact a guy who i'm sure had 3 of these 1980,1980/81 and 1981. He will have no idea what they're worth and neither have i really. I'll see if i can get some pics if he still has them. Ken

stevebm1 · Oct 3, 2015

paddythegreek said:
I might be able to contact a guy who i'm sure had 3 of these 1980,1980/81 and 1981. He will have no idea what they're worth and neither have i really. I'll see if i can get some pics if he still has them. Ken

much appreciated

Arv · Oct 3, 2015

Yeah get em scanned if possible, or send em my way and I'll make a PDF out of em.

Nedreud · Oct 5, 2015

Are these at Planetary Pinball any use in the meantime? Or did you want the the real thing or a PDF to print?

http://www.planetarypinball.com/reference/partsmanuals/BLY_Parts_1980/index.html
http://www.planetarypinball.com/reference/partsmanuals/BLY_Parts_1980-1/index.html
http://www.planetarypinball.com/reference/partsmanuals/BLY_Parts_1981/index.html

If you're tech-savvy you can extract each page as an individual PDF but you need to use something like the Chrome Developer Tools.

stevebm1 · Oct 5, 2015

that's exactly what im after,you are a star,shame you can't download them,but they are free to browse

Arv · Oct 5, 2015

I might have downloaded these a while back, I'll have to check..

Nedreud · Oct 6, 2015

The viewer on Planetary Pinball stored each page as a "SWF" file (Small Web Format) which is an Adobe Flash file. SWFs are really designed for multimedia content not static book-style pages for which PDF is better suited, but I suspected it's done like this because it makes the book viewer work in all modern browsers without having to download or install a PDF viewer. Converting SWF to PDF is a bit of an odd concept because a SWF can be made up of multiple "frames" like a movie but a PDF is a single static page. In this instance however we know each SWF just contains a single image of a page from a book.

So the easiest (if a little time consuming) way to "convert" to PDF without any software is to use the Google Chrome browser and open each SWF directly and then Print to PDF.

For example, open http://www.planetarypinball.com/ref...LY_Parts_1980/files/assets/pages/page0001.swf using Google Chrome. You should see the first page of the part manual filling the whole screen:

Right click the middle of the page and select Print...
On the left-hand side change the Destination to Save as PDF...
Click Save

Edit the name of the file to something shorter and save it somewhere you can find it again:

Voila! PDFs. You could then use something like PDF Split and Merge (http://www.pdfsam.org/) to join them all in to a single document

BigIan · Oct 6, 2015

trying to avoid real work ?

Seriously though, thats saved a lot of work for others. :thumbs:

Nedreud · Oct 6, 2015

I've converted and merged the 88 pages from the 1980 parts manual into a single PDF and then compressed/optimised it to reduce size from 93MB to 16MB!

Bally Parts Manual 1980 PDF

stevebm1 · Oct 6, 2015

Nedreud said:
I've converted and merged the 88 pages from the 1980 parts manual into a single PDF and then compressed/optimised it to reduce size from 93MB to 16MB!

Bally Parts Manual 1980 PDF

fantastic stuff,none of these pdfs seem to be avaliable to download anywhere else,the williams parts 1980 is a rare one also

Nedreud · Oct 7, 2015

I've got a sneaky feeling it could be they're still under copyright and I'll probably get a smacked bottom soon for disseminating such works etc.

Took about 20 minutes to do the 1980 catalog. I didn't mind as it's a very handy reference for my games. The scan quality of the original material is a bit ropey though.

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