I tried your suggestions with pluck-comics.py but I'm not able to get it to
work. I always get this error when running it:
Traceback <innermost last>:
File "c:\comics\pluck-comics.py", line 57 in ?
for name in os.listdir<libdir>:
OSError: [Errno 3] No such process
Any ideas? Thanks
>From: Andrew Markebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Plucker List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: pluck-comics.py question
>Date: 15 Aug 2001 00:25:21 +0200
>
>
>| Well i'm not a Manual writer and English are also not my preferred
>| language. But if someone wan't send me descriptions, Howtos or other
>| Text parts related to plucker and Windows i do not say no. I include
>| this in the distribution, sure :-)
>
>Okee here comes my retouch, there are a couple of comments, probably
>should belong to the developer-list.. and I suppose it needs some more
>reworking, but lets call it beta and see what the testers out there
>say :-)
>
>My comments/thoughts are generally enclosed in brackets [], like:
>
>[There are a couple of long paths given here, couldn't this be
>something for plucker to implement in some way, environment variable
>of launched app or so. , something like: ]
>
>Well over to the howto, enjoy!
>
> /Andy
>
>Howto
>=====
>
>Pluck-comics simply download the comics (pictures) from the web pages,
>store the pictures on your HDD and create a simple html page that link
>to the pictures.
>
>Config
>=======
>So if you want to use it, open the pluck-comics.py in a text editor
>and setup the default values:
>
>Replace the @COMICSLIST_DIR@ with the place were the comic list are
>stored, usually: C:\Program Files\Plucker\Tools\pluck-comics\
> [Doesn't sys.argv[0] contain info aobut this?
> the relative path from current dir to where
> pluck-comics is?]
>
>Replace the @COMICS_DIR@ with the directory of the database created
>below, this will be something like: C:\Program Files\Plucker\Comics.DB\
> [Can't we get this path from plucker,
> either as commandline switch, or
> environment, and not hardcoded in the
>ini-file]
>
>setting up your database
>========================
>Next step create a new DB using the "Add a new Database" shortcut. In
>this example i call this new DB "comics".
>
>Now the tool are ready to use, call:
> <ONELONGLINE>
> C:\Program Files\Plucker\Python\Python.exe C:\Program
>Files\Plucker\Tools\pluck-comics\pluck-comics.py -h comics.com
> </ONELONGLINE>
>This should now download the comics and place it in the Comics.DB
>subdirectory.
>
>If this works as desired go to the channel.ini (C:\Program
>Files\Plucker\Comics.DB\plucker.ini) and add a before_command key, for
>example:
>
><ONELONGLINE> $PLUCKERDIR\Python\python.exe $pluckersdir.. -l
>$databaselocation
>before_command=C:\Program Files\Plucker\Python\Python.exe C:\Program
>Files\Plucker\Tools\pluck-comics\pluck-comics.py -h comics.com
></ONELONGLINE>
>
>GO
>==
>
>So, now if you wan't your comics, simply click the "Hotsync" shortcut
>in the DB 'Comics' Shortcut Folder.
>
>This makes the parser to first execute the the script, downloading the
>comics, and put them on your hdd.
>
>When the plucker-comics finish the parser continues and grabs the
>downloaded comics from you HDD and builds a plucker DB and installs
>it.
>
>Since comics usually are big images i suggest you to download version
>1.1.11 (see my signature) because there are a better support for large
>images.
>
>NOTE: in 1.1.11 the is a little bug in the installer, after install
>you need to edit the main ini file (<program
>files>\Plucker\plucker.ini).
>Search the key bmp_to_tbmp_parameter and change it to:
>
> bmp_to_tbmp_parameter=-i=%input% -o=%output% -maxwidth=%maxwidth%
>-maxheight=%maxheight% -compress=%compress% -bpp=%colors%
>
>
>Optimizing the image
>====================
>
>To get the best results (see below) with 1.1.11 add these keys to the
>channel.ini:
>
>(Limitation I think you need PalmOS >=3.3 for use the tbmp compression)
>
>tbmp_compression = yes
>try_reduce_bpp = true
>try_reduce_dimension = true
>guess_tbmp_size = false
>
>[What size limits BTW?? Just my (ama) thoughts]
>
>This makes the parser to reduce the colors if the image to big (in
>bytes) and if at bpp=1 it is still too big it resizes the
>image. Because comics are hard to read if they are scaled down IMHO
>this is the best option.
>
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