Here are a few comics scoops that I've made. The .site files themselves are attached and I've dumped the text too. The only trick to comics sites (it seems) is finding good
StoryStart and
StoryEnd text blocks that sandwich the image tightly, so the rest of the page is ignored...
Note that I found that changing the
ImageScaleToMaxWidth parameter didn't seem to have any effect in iSilo. All the image sizing seems to be done in the iSilo conversion. The docs mention that that command may be removed, so perhaps it's no longer functional? Regardless, I left it in but commented out.
I have a problem with comics and sitescooper. I wrote this in another sitescooper forum some months ago (
http://sitescooper.org/pipermail/sitescooper-talk/2004q1/001549.html):
I'm having trouble getting image-only sites to work
with sitescooper and plucker 1.6, mostly comics. The
image downloads all right, but I can't view it in full
screen, just a tiny, un-clickable thumbnail appears.
I've been trying with these two examples:
Code
URL:http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/zits/aboutMaina.phpName: Zits
StoryStart: <!--CMS NAME="image"-->
StoryEnd: <!--/CMS-->
StoryDiff: 1
ImageOnlySite: 1
ImageURL: http://est.rbma.com/content/Zits.*ImageScaleToMaxWidth: 525
AuthorName: William Fishburne
AuthorEmail: william.fishburne /at/ verizon.net StoryPostProcess: { s/<img .*>/<a href="0.gif">[tap to display
image]<\/a>/gs; }
# I added this next bit in, following yahoo eg below
StoryHTMLPreProcess: { s/ALT="Today.s Zits Cartoon"/ ALT="Today.s Zits Cartoon" WIDTH=525
height="168" /gs;
}
# Yahoo Map weather coverted to doc format using
sitescooper
#
#
URL:http://weather.yahoo.com/img/aus_sat_440_mdy_y.html Name: YahooMap Levels: 1 StoryStart: <TD width=560> StoryEnd: Other StoryDiff: 1 ImageOnlySite: 1 ImageURL: http://weather.yahoo.com/images/.* ImageScaleToMaxWidth: 440 UseTableSmarts: 0
# add size info so sitescooper knows to make it into a
# link for Plucker.
StoryHTMLPreProcess: { s/ALT="Today.s Weather Map"/ ALT="Today.s Weather Map" WIDTH=440 height="297" /gs;
}
Grateful for any help - thanks in advance.
Geoffrey.
![[site]](images/mr/attach/site.gif){kind=small}
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