I have just purchased, downloaded and installed Poser 11. I am attempting to read the Reference Manual. A file named Poser 11 Reference Manual.pdf is located at c:Program FilesSmith MicroPoser 11. When I open this file using Adobe Reader (or an alternate reader) is see only two pages. The file is 852 KB. Why do I not see the rest of the manual and how can I do so?

Look at the location where your Poser 11 Content is installed, it should be somewhere in a folder Poser 11 Content//Documentation, there you'll find the Poser Reference Manual.pdf with about 52 MB and 1086 pages.

Jules, I see the same thing Jdoane sees... I don't have the 52 MB file either.... do you remember what you did to make it appear?

The manual is part of one of the content installers, not the one that installs the software. Yeah, that's dumb. But technically, it is "content".

Jules, Thank you for your reply. I am unable to find a "Poser 11 Content" folder. Poser is installed in C: > Program Files > Smith Micro > Poser 11. The Poser 11 folder does contain a file named Poser 11 Reference Manual.pdf. But opening this in Adobe reader shows a document with only two pages. Something seems wrong as the pdf file is 852 KB. I should note that had the same issue with my previous Poser 10 Reference Manual. Also I just did a clean install of Windows 10. Other large pdf files open and display normally.

bagginsbill, Thank you as well. I confess I did not follow what you said. I downloaded and then installed Poser 11 and its associated content using the Smith Micro Download Manager.

The Folder you stated is the Program folder, you have to look into your content folder where the content is installed. There you'll find the folder Documentation and there the full manual but make sure you have installed the poser support files, you can check this with the DLM.

You can also check it in Poser. Go to Help and there should be the Poser Reference Manual as Menu item (1st entry). If it is not there it is not installed.

Thank you Jules, by starting Poser 11 I am able to view the Reference Manual under Help. I'm not sure where it may be stored on my hard drive but I have access to it and that is what is most important.

It seems there is a thread on this in the Renerosity Poser Form titled "Libraries" . A pdf file for the manual is can be found at C: > Users > Public > Poser 11 Content ( for a default install). Sorry but I missed this before starting this thread. Thanks again for your help.

You're welcome

After a long absence, I am returning to my digital art hobby with Poser. Previously I purchased products such as Victoria 4.2, Genesis figures, props, poses, etc and brought everything into Poser. While I kept copies of my purchases, I have forgotten how to install them into Poser. While I enjoy the content included within Poser, I want to use my other material tool. I would really appreciate some help. Thank you.

Usually your purchases are in Zip files. You can open the zip and hopefully you'll find a folder named Runtime. Copy this to your Poser content folder and that's it. If there is no Runtime folder you have to copy the folders like Geometries, Textures and Libraries into your existing Runtime folder. For V4 usually you have an exe file. Click on it and navigate the installer to your Runtime folder and all will be done automatically. At the end don't forget to initialize the figure with the batch file located on your desktop. Hope that will help a little bit.

If you want the current zipped files from DAZ3D for V4, redownload your selection from your account. It is easier to install these DAZ3D files using their DIM than to tease apart the zips manually.

Thank you for your help. The old files I purchased from DAZ for characters like V4, The Girl 4 , etc did not come in a ZIP file but instead were .exe files. So if I were to re-download them from DAZ, would they now be ZIP files that I could just install directly into Poser like the ZIP files I purchase from Renderosity?

Sort of! The zip files you purchase from Rendo have the runtime as the first folder in the hierarchy, eg Productname/runtime/libraries etc. This means you can load them from the file menu in poser (install from zip archive) without unzipping them first, poser does it for you. Content from daz has the structure productname/content/runtime so you have to unzip them yourself and copy the runtime. to your runtime. There is another point with V4 if you have daz morph packs such as morphs++, in that you need to initialise the figure to accept the morphs. I've found it easiest to use the daz install manager to do this as it does it automatically rather than you having to find and run the relevant batch file.