Help with Recipe - Image Sizes

[Tegan]

After my unexpected success with the newspaper recipes (my degree is in English, not programming!) I decided to try making a recipe that grabs my favorite webcomic, Girl Genius. I managed to get the thing working ok, but the image size is strange. Basically, it's too small to be readable. Anyone know why the size of the image is being reduced? On the original page, it's width is 700 pixels.

Here's the code.

class GirlGeniusWebcomicRecipe(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'___Girl Genius @ LJ'
    description    = 'The Adventures of Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius.'
    __author__     = 'Laura Gjovaag'
    oldest_article        = 10
    max_articles_per_feed = 5
    reverse_article_order = True
    no_stylesheets        = True
    remove_javascript     = True
    keep_only_tags = [
                      dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'entry'}),
                      ]
    remove_tags    = [
                      dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['entrylinks', 'minicomment']}),
                      ]
    extra_css = 'h1{font: bold 140%;}'

    feeds          = [(u'Girl Genius', u'http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/data/rss')]

I tried messing around with image_url_processor, but I couldn't figure it out. I just don't know enough python, I guess. I also tried adding

def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        return self.adeify_images(soup)

but it didn't help. Any ideas?

[kovidgoyal]

depending on what output profile you have chosen, images are automatically scaled down to fit the reader screen. Typical output profiles have a screen size of 600x800

[Tegan]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

depending on what output profile you have chosen, images are automatically scaled down to fit the reader screen. Typical output profiles have a screen size of 600x800

I'm outputting to mobi, for the Kindle. I also tried outputting to ePub in case that was causing the problem. But the size of the images is MUCH smaller than 600x800. Is there a way to turn off the automatic image scaling so I can see if the problem is on the Calibre side, or something to do with the website?

Maybe I need to learn Python.

[kovidgoyal]

if they're much smaller than the screen width than it is not the image scaling. Use the debug pipeline trick to see the images that are downloaded by the recipe and make sure they are the correct size.

[Tegan]

Ok, I'll go figure out how to put in the debug pipeline. If it's documented somewhere, I'll find it. Thanks, Kovid!

[kovidgoyal]

I suspect you are expecting the recipe to download the image from the rss feed, but it is following the link in the feed to a webpage from which it is getting a thumbnail

[Tegan]

Ok... I've been playing with this for awhile. It seems like the size of the image that is downloaded is correct. I think. When I go to the viewer, the size is smaller.

So I tried to figure out how big from the viewer, and got to a "Web Inspector" window that gave me this:

<img height="1061" width="700" src="images/00008.jpg" class="calibre_40" style="height: 593px;
width: 391.235px; ">

Where is that style attribute coming from? And more importantly, can I override it somehow?

[kovidgoyal]

593px is what is needed to fit inside a screen that is 600px wide, like the Kindle screen.

[Tegan]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

593px is what is needed to fit inside a screen that is 600px wide, like the Kindle screen.

Except 593 is the height, not the width. If it were the width, that would be fine.

[kovidgoyal]

Are you sure you have an output profile of Kindle and you are generating a MOBI file? Because I tried your recipe and this is what I get

[Tegan]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Are you sure you have an output profile of Kindle and you are generating a MOBI file? Because I tried your recipe and this is what I get

Thanks for the assistance! I think I'm going to chalk this one up to end-user error for now, and go play with the other recipes. I think I need more knowledge about how the recipes work. Maybe I should go study Python.

Again, thanks!