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macrotor · 09-03-2004, 02:55 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...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
==============

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!

09-03-2004, 02:55 PM	#7
macrotor Connoisseur Posts: 59 Karma: 2418 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Fremont, CA, USA Device: Tungsten\|C with Nokia6200	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...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 ============== 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!