Pre-Release 0.493

Note

This prerelease has been superseded and its downloads removed. Only the current
prerelease ships builds — see the latest release.

Original Notes Below

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Pre-Release 0.493

This update lets you add your own instruction manual to the Workshop and the
game, and groups the game's settings by what they actually change.

Add your own instruction manual

• Choose a PDF under Help & manual and it is read both in the Workshop and
  in the game, from the Manual entry in the game's settings.
• The Workshop opens any PDF. The in-game reader needs a scan album — one page
  image per page — and the Workshop tells you at install time whether your file
  will work in the game, rather than leaving you to find out from the game's
  menu.
• Remove manual clears it, and installing again replaces it. A manual you
  install takes effect the next time you start the game; no rebuild is needed.
• With no manual installed, the game simply omits its Manual section.

Imperfect scans are accepted

• Pages do not have to be exactly the same size. Anything within 5% of the
  booklet's most common page size counts as a page.
• A home scan is never perfectly uniform: auto-crop finds a slightly different
  edge on each sheet, and the odd page sits crooked. None of that prevents a
  manual from being used.
• The comparison is against the most common page size in the book, so a cover
  scanned separately does not disqualify the rest of it.

Settings menu

• Game changes are now grouped by intent, under Original game bug fixes and
  Quality-of-life improvements, making it clear which options restore
  intended behavior and which go beyond it.

Existing installations

• Your saved settings are preserved.
• The page-size rule is part of the game itself. You WILL need to rebuild your game with this release for the new manual acceptance logic to work.