Hi FFD, you will not get a paper manual with your order.  What you will get is one case (like the one you get when renting a movie).  The case consists of two CDs, one is the application disc and the other contains example scenery, exterior and interior stuff (castles, houses, fences, animals, aircraft, space craft etc) that you can place in your Vue scene.

The application disc comes with an electronic manual, that when you click on it comes up on your screen in Adobe Reader (that reader comes with all windows  from win 95 through Vista.  That is where .pdf comes in.  Its the Adobe Reader format extension (.vob, .pz3, etc). 

Here is what you should do, place the Application disc in your drive and select open files >Documentation>En and copy the  Adobe Acrobat Document to where you have your  Vue 7 (Program files>e-on software-you should now have the reader and a folder containing Vue 7 folder.  I simply click and drag the icon to my desktop where it sits quitely beside my Vue 7 icon.  Then when I need it, I just click on it.  Jan