QUOTE(Toysrme @ Dec 4 2005, 12:22 PM) [snapback]168000[/snapback]
It's a good idea. Most forums have their respective manuals stickied.
Zip all the files into one large download. Most of Toyota's repair manuals come out to around 100-110mb. The pdf's are interlinked, so you can click & navigate between them.
If Toyota's repair manuals are so large it is because they were scanned instead of saved as PDF files from the original layout application in which they were created. I just downloaded the 1999 GS300 Owners Manuals from Lexus.com and used Acrobat Professional to combine them into a single file. Without even optimizing the file, it was only 3 mb. You can tell that these pages were generated directly from the (now legacy) layout documents, probably originally done in QuarkXPress. Lexus did this properly! Generating PDFs from the origin documents (as opposed to scanning the pages of a manual) means a better looking, smaller, and SEARCHABLE document. (I am a graphic designer, so I know wherof I speak).
Anyway, I will have the 1999 GS300 manual for this site to download, I just need to know how to post it. The NAV stuff will be separate, as will the quick reference guide.