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Alexander Turcic
12-03-2002, 07:32 PM
Apartment 3-G
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/apt3g/aboutMaina.php

Baby Blues
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/babyblue/aboutMaina.php

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/bgoogle/aboutMaina.php

Beetle Bailey
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/bbailey/aboutMaina.php

Between Friends
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/bfriends/aboutMaina.php

Blondie
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/blondie/aboutMaina.php

Buckles
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/buckles/aboutMaina.php

Crock
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/crock/aboutMaina.php

Curtis
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/curtis/aboutMaina.php

Dennis the Menace
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/dennis/aboutMaina.php

Edge City
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/edgecity/aboutMaina.php

Family Circus
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/familyc/aboutMaina.php

Flash Gordon
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fgordon/aboutMaina.php

Funky Winkerbean
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fwinker/aboutMaina.php

Girls and Sports
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/grlsport/aboutMaina.php

Grin and Bear It
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/grinbear/aboutMaina.php

Hagar the Horrible
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/hagar/aboutMaina.php

Hazel
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/hazel/aboutMaina.php

Henry
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/henry/aboutMaina.php

Hi and Lois
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/hi_lois/aboutMaina.php

Horrorscope
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/horrscpe/aboutMaina.php

I Need Help
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/ineedhelp/aboutMaina.php

Judge Parker
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/jparker/aboutMaina.php

Katzenjammer Kids
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/katzkids/aboutMaina.php

Mallard Fillmore
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mallard/aboutMaina.php

Mandrake the Magician
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mandrake/aboutMaina.php

Mark Trail
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mtrail/aboutMaina.php

Marvin
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/marvin/aboutMaina.php

Mary Worth
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mworth/aboutMaina.php

Moose & Molly
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/moosemol/aboutMaina.php

Mutts
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mutts/aboutMaina.php

On The Fastrack
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fastrack/aboutMaina.php

Piranha Club
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/piranha/aboutMaina.php

Pop's Place
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/popplace/aboutMaina.php

Popeye
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/popeye/aboutMaina.php

Prince Valiant
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/pvaliant/aboutMaina.php

Redeye
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/redeye/aboutMaina.php

Rex Morgan
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/rmorgan/aboutMaina.php

Rhymes with Orange
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/orange/aboutMaina.php

Safe Havens
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/safehavn/aboutMaina.php

Sally Forth
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/sforth/aboutMaina.php

Sam and Silo
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/sam_silo/aboutMaina.php

Sherman's Lagoon
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/lagoon/aboutMaina.php

Six Chix
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/sixchix/aboutMaina.php

Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/slylock/aboutMaina.php

Steve Roper and Mike Nomad
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/sroper/aboutMaina.php

The Amazing Spider-Man
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/spidermn/aboutMaina.php

The Better Half
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/bethalf/aboutMaina.php

The Dinette Set
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/dinette/aboutMaina.php

The Lockhorns
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/lockhorn/aboutMaina.php

The New Breed
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/newbreed/aboutMaina.php

The Norm
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/thenorm/aboutMaina.php

The Phantom
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/phantom/aboutMaina.php

They'll Do It Every Time
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/theydoit/aboutMaina.php

Tiger
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/tiger/aboutMaina.php

Trudy
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/trudy/aboutMaina.php

Tumbleweeds
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/tumblewd/aboutMaina.php

Zippy the Pinhead
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/zippy/aboutMaina.php

Zits
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/zits/aboutMaina.php

sUnShInE
12-06-2002, 08:53 AM
I just randomly tried two of these comic links and they came up, "Sorry, this comic isn't available at this time". I changed the date and they still didn't come up.

Am I doing something wrong? Also, is there an explanation somewhere of how to add links like this to the .ixl?

Thanks!

Alexander Turcic
12-06-2002, 09:26 AM
Hmm weird. I tried one randomly, http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/newbreed/aboutMaina.php  
and it worked fine. Did you try loading it with Internet Explorer?

I am afraid you must add each link individually to the .ixl file. I would say link-depth=0 and maybe a imageresize (though should not be needed). I admit the comics pages are not 100% pdafriendly.

sUnShInE
12-06-2002, 09:41 AM
Yea, I use IE 6. I tried Zippy, and whatever is listed right above Zippy.

I'm more interested in grabbing Doonesbury. Know a link for that?

Alexander Turcic
12-06-2002, 09:42 AM
Those two you tried work fine for me.

I will keep an eye open for Doonesbury :p

DerekErb
12-06-2002, 04:47 PM
If we can ever get My Yahoo! to work then you'll have Doonesbury (and Garfield and Sequitur and...)

macrotor
09-03-2004, 01:55 PM
Time to resurrect this thread, for iSilo4 now has the power to directly download these tricky comics!

The secret is that you have to let iSilo "touch" an automatic link with cookies enabled so that kingfeatures thinks you are using a web-browser instead of a download-bot. Otherwise, you will get blocked from any comic that you have not visited prior with a web browser.

So, let's say you want to grab Sally Forth?
===Source===
Source: http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/sforth/aboutMaina.php
(Note: add as many kingfeature comics you want to the source list. The filter can handle them all.)
===Links===
Max link depth: 1 (That's right! NOT zero!)
Follow Off-site links: Checked/YES (The actual comic image is served elsewhere.)
Follow only links subfolders: unchecked/no
Include unresolved: unchecked/no
===URL Filters===
Exclusion (Wildcard): *
Inclusion (Wildcard): http://est.rbma.com/content/*
(Explaination: we are going to ignore every link except the server with the comic)
===Images===
Include Images: YES (obviously)
I suggest enabling improve contrast, dither, Compress (Lossy:None), 8-bit. Lossy compression will give you a smaller file-size, but scrolling will be dog-slow.
===Tables===
Ignore All Table formatting
===Color===
Ignore all background and text colors.
===Margins===
Ignore All Margins and Padding
===Text===
I suggest you remove all line breaks and convert all line breaks to single space. You don't need the text, and the less scrolling you do to get the comic, the better.
===Document===
Set it for Hard or Soft paging (just not rigid).
===Access===
Nothing is needed
===Bookmarks===
Pointless...every stupid page is titled "About this Comic." Oh well.
===Cookies===
Send: Checked/Yes
Receive: Checked/Yes
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That's it! Each comic will be on its own page. The good news is that now you can download KingFeature Comics directly without Alexander's special page. The bad news is that it is SLOW! It takes about 10 seconds a comic. You also have that chunk of text underneath each comic, but that is no big deal. With lossless compression, 8-bit, and no re-sizing, I get about 51kb per comic. Not too bad, and I get a clean comics page with only one graphic (the comic).

What I wish iSilo would incorporate is an "ignore all text" checkbox in the "Text" preference page. We can ignore images, why not ignore text?

Theoretically, you can add ALL of your Comic pages, and just add inclusion filters for those other sites that also use off-site image servers. I'll have to see if I can convert my comics collection from sitescooper to iSilo pure.

Okay, any other Comic servers that people need help with?

It's good to be back!