Dilbert - does not fit Sony PRS 300

[PeterMzizi]

I am using 0.7.33
I find that the Dilbert cartoons do not fit the Sony screen in normal (portrait) or landscape orientation.
I saw from the closed sticky that this problem existed some time ago and was apparently fixed but I have had this over several earlier versions.

The cartoons display fine in Calibre's own viewer and have done so in all versions I have used.

While I am here, any chance of a recipe for The Reverend Fun?
http://www.reverendfun.com/features/rss/?language=en

Many thanks

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by PeterMzizi

I am using 0.7.33
I find that the Dilbert cartoons do not fit the Sony screen in normal (portrait) or landscape orientation.

Try this:

Spoiler:

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
http://www.dilbert.com
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
import re

class DilbertBig(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                  = 'DilbertBig'
    __author__             = 'Darko Miletic big images added by Starson17'
    description            = 'DilbertBig'
    reverse_article_order = True
    oldest_article         = 15
    max_articles_per_feed  = 100
    no_stylesheets         = True
    use_embedded_content   = True
    encoding               = 'utf-8'
    publisher              = 'UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.'
    category               = 'comic'
    language               = 'en'

    conversion_options = {
                             'comments'        : description
                            ,'tags'            : category
                            ,'language'        : language
                            ,'publisher'       : publisher
                         }

    feeds = [(u'Dilbert', u'http://feeds.dilbert.com/DilbertDailyStrip' )]

    def get_article_url(self, article):
        return article.get('feedburner_origlink', None)

    preprocess_regexps = [
        (re.compile('strip\..*\.gif', re.DOTALL|re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: 'strip.zoom.gif')
        ]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
       for tag in soup.findAll(name='a'):
           if tag['href'].find('http://feedads') >= 0:
              tag.extract()
       return soup

    extra_css = '''
                    h1{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:large;}
                    h2{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:normal;font-size:small;}
                    img {max-width:100%; min-width:100%;}
                    p{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
                    body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
		'''

I don't have a Sony, but I prefer this modification of Dilbert. It may have no effect, but I'd be interested in your report.

[PeterMzizi]

Starson17
Yes this does resize the cartoon to fit the screen - a little small in portrait but fine in landscape
Many thanks for this fix.
Peter

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by PeterMzizi

Starson17
Yes this does resize the cartoon to fit the screen - a little small in portrait but fine in landscape
Many thanks for this fix.
Peter

It's designed to be used in landscape (or on a wide screen monitor) for normal wide comic "strips" and in portrait for the few comics that are taller than they are wide.. It just sizes the width of the image to the max width available.

It also works well on the PC screen where you can resize the window you are viewing in.

Thanks for the report.

[PeterMzizi]

At some point between using 0.7.33 and 0.7.35 the standard Dilbert recipe has started fine