                             RUNNING GEAR
                             --========--


This is a README file for the PDF release of Running Gear, date 18 
March 2002. It helps to read it, especially if you're experiencing 
problems with the PDF files.


CONTENTS

Copyright & Trademarks
Distribution
Archive Contents
Printing Running Gear
Common Problems
URLs & Addresses


COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS

The copyrights to the individual articles making up Running Gear 
belong to those articles' original authors. Running Gear itself, as a 
compilation of those articles -- that is to say, the twelve files 
listed under ARCHIVE CONTENTS below -- is copyright (c) 1994-2002 by 
Gurth.
Shadowrun(R) is a registered trademark of WizKids LLC. Original 
Shadowrun material is copyright (c) 1989-2000 by FASA Corporation, and 
(c) 2001-2002 byWizKids LLC. All Rights Reserved. Used without 
permission.


DISTRIBUTION

Running Gear may be freely copied and distributed in both electronic 
and hardcopy formats, on the conditions that it remains completely 
unmodified, and that no profit is made off the distribution. In other 
words, pass it on exactly as you got it, and don't charge any money 
for it.


ARCHIVE CONTENTS

Running Gear comes in a zip archive containing twelve files:

	FILENAME					FILE SIZE
	RG01 - Front Cover & Title Page.pdf		200 KB
	RG02 - Contents & Into.pdf			245 KB
	RG03 - Runners' Gear.pdf			579 KB
	RG04 - Street Grimoire.pdf			229 KB
	RG05 - Shaped Explosives.pdf			299 KB
	RG06 - Chemistry.pdf				362 KB
	RG07 - RadTech Catalog.pdf			230 KB
	RG08 - SWO Guns.pdf				594 KB
	RG09 - Legal Hassles.pdf			120 KB
	RG10 - Back Cover.pdf				363 KB
	Plastic Warriors Equipment Tables.pdf		126 KB
	README.txt (this file)				5 KB


PRINTING RUNNING GEAR

The PDF version of Running Gear is intended for to be printed out, 
though you can of course also read it on-screen using your favorite 
PDF viewer (if you don't, see under COMMON PROBLEMS below). Each of 
the files has distinct left and right pages, which you can make the 
most use of by printing the odd (right) pages first, followed by the 
even (left) ones on the backs of the odd ones. You'll probably have to 
experiment with your printer a bit to figure out how to feed the paper 
back in so you print on both sides, but as this depends on your exact 
printer model I can't give any real recommendations. You also may be 
best off printing one of the sides in reverse order.

If your printer can print two-sided, you have no need to worry about 
the above -- just make sure it's set to do that trick, then print the 
file as normal.

If you live in North America, or insist on using Letter-size paper for 
some other reason, you should not experience any major problems 
(Running Gear is set up for A4-size paper). However, if your PDF 
viewer supports it, you had best switch on the option that 
automatically sizes the print-out to fit the paper size.

Note that the second page of the file "RG01 - Front Cover & Title.pdf" 
is intended to be a RIGHT page -- it's the title page, and so is the 
first page of the actual file. It's not supposed to be on the back of 
the front cover.
Also, the Equipment Tables are intended to go between the Legal 
Hassles chapter and the back cover. This file will be updated to 
include equipment from future Plastic Warriors net.sourcebook when 
those become available, which is why the name does not fit the naming 
scheme of the other chapters -- this way, if you put all the books in 
one directory, they will all use the same Equipment Tables when you 
view the PDF files.


COMMON PROBLEMS


* I can't open the files. (Or: MS Word doesn't recognize them!)
- The probable cause here is that you don't have a proper PDF viewer 
installed on your computer. There are several, but the easiest thing 
to do is to go to http://www.adobe.com/acrobat and download the free 
Acrobat Reader from there. It is available for a wide range of 
different operating systems, and won't cost you anything. Once it's 
been downloaded, install the viewer and use it to open the Running 
Gear files.

* When I print the document, there are white borders at the edges of 
each page, so the graphics at the tops of the pages are cut off.
- This is a limitation of your printer: it simply cannot print in those 
white areas, called its margins, so anything that would fall in that 
area disappears from the page. The solution is to make your PDF viewer 
resize the page to fit the paper size you are using (Adobe Acrobat can 
do this), which makes the whole page fit inside the margins. The white 
areas will still be there, but this way you won't miss anything.

* I can't change the files.
- That's intentional, so that the files will be distributed as I want 
them to be, not with parts cut out or things added into them. You can, 
however, copy text from the file for use in your own documents.


URLS & Addresses

You can find the Plastic Warriors web site at 
http://plastic.dumpshock.com. To contact the driving force (for lack 
of a better term :) of Plastic Warriors, send an e-mail to Gurth at 
<gurth@xs4all.nl>.