Paper manual time

[Travis]

Looks like i'm going to have to buy a paper manual for my Mule now... since adobe flash player doesnt work anymore, i cant view my manual from the CD anymore, i was able to use it for awhile using the RunAsDate application, but now adobe  disappeared from the PC and i cannot reinstall it.

hope i can find a  paper manual.

[Travis]

PHEW

got the last one

Even thought its for a 500, it's still a KAF300 model so the Engine, drive, frame, brakes ,electrical are the same.

[Alex]

There's always this from emanual 😁: https://www.emanualonline.com/powersports/utv/kawasaki/mule/mule-500/kawasaki-kaf300-mule-500-utility-vehicle-full-service-repair-manual-emo-23285.html

KAWASAKI KAF300 MULE 500 UTILITY Vehicle Full Service & Repair Manual

[Travis]

I looked at that one, but Im wary of stuff you pay then download online.. Just for no reason i guess 😄😄

[Dennis Knepp]

Sounds like computer upgrade might be in order. Did you try to uninstall adobe then reinstall? Did some of the smoke get out of your computer?

[Travis]

It's. 1 year old PC running Windows 10.

Windows doesn't support Adobe flash any more, and finally made it inoperable.

[cliffyk]

The manual was a "flash" presentation?  HUH, usually they are just .PDF files. The real BS In all of this is that there is nothing inherently wrong with Flash, Adobe just decided they did not want to support it any longer, and MS and other being basically ass-wipes decided to not serve it up. And even if it does pose a security risk, isn't that my problem and decision to make?

[Alex]

So when you install it on your pc drive and go into the program folder, there are no PDFs? I agree with @cliffyk usually those installs bundle and serve PDFs via a flash built viewer, the actual files are pdf or images. 

If you zip it up and load it somewhere where I can extract it, happy to take a look and see if I can convert it to pdf. 

[Travis]

Usually when i wanted to use it, i would put in the CD,  and click on CD drive folder, then click on start, i did find the files, or "pages"  are JPG files. .. i have no idea what those SWF files are, i can't open them.

 

[cliffyk]

The .swf files are "Shock Wave Flash", Adobe's original name for what became just "Flash". They likely just serve up the .jpg files in an indexed manner--I might be able to convert it to something else if you'd like top send me a copy of the CD...

-cliff-

[Travis]

Do you mean an electronic copy or a Physical copy..

[Alex]

Yeah, those are jpg files. If you upload them all via dropbox or google drive then share it, I can create  a pdf of all the images in order.  Sort that folder by file type and copy and paste all the JPG files only into a new folder (get all the pages). Then right click and compress that folder. Depending on the size, you can upload it here or to dropbox, google drive, or other. I have adobe acrobat and can create the pdf if you like.

[Travis]

Will do

[cliffyk]

1 hour ago, Travis said:

Do you mean an electronic copy or a Physical copy..

Either way, my email server can handle pretty big files, if you could load it to an archive--or just let me know where they are if you do it as Alex suggested...

[Travis]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LMhN29Iyl7k83l0xhjD_X-sB0xawIpDl/view?usp=sharing

Once you open,  click Contents>Resources>Assets>Pages

For some reason drive wouldn't  let me upload the individual JPG files....

[cliffyk]

Got this...

[Travis]

Try this one

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t_r3ZeydyQuW8TL0PnFKlSfzqSB6QGpY?usp=sharing

[cliffyk]

 Got it...

The .jpg files are "thumbnails" of the actual  page images in the .swf files. I'll have to do some research into how to batch convert the .swf images into something useful...

This is the page0002_s.jpg file (viewed with just a plain ol' Linux image viewer(:

Here's the page0002.swf  file (viewed with Celluloid, a Linux movie viewer):

-cliff-

[cliffyk]

I converted the .swf images to .png (Portable Network Graphics) images--you should be able to read those.They are in a 142 MB .zip file--I'll send you the download link in a PM so that my web server does not get inundated...