Cracked.com: Missing images and small image captions

damien18 · 11-19-2014, 11:51 PM

Within the last 10 days or so, cracked.com seems to have changed how images within its articles are displayed, as they are no longer appearing in an epub that was downloaded using the current calibre version (2.10, running under Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit) and cracked.com recipe. Unfortunately, my knowledge of recipes is very limited, and I have no idea how to fix this.

Additionally, the captions underneath the images are very small, and difficult to read on my Kobo Glo. I tried to fix this by adding the following line to the recipe, but it has no effect:

Code:

extra_css = 'font[size="1"]:not([style]) { font-size: 12px; }'

I also tried the following, in case the ":not" selector is unsupported, but with the same results:

Code:

extra_css = 'font[size="1"] { font-size: 12px; }'

Both of the above selectors work as expected on the actual site (using Firefox with the "Stylish" extension), so I don't think it's an issue with the CSS itself.

Can anyone help?

kovidgoyal · 11-27-2014, 01:50 AM

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...9edae7961e1981

damien18 · 11-27-2014, 10:55 PM

This is fantastic. The images are back, and the captions are easy to read. Thanks very much.

Even the "Photoplasty" articles are displaying images now, and those have always been broken. I did notice that they are only displaying the first two pages of the article, but that's still a huge improvement over no images at all (most "Photoplasty" images contain lots of text that would probably be difficult to read on an e-reader anyway).

Once again, many thanks for the effort.

kovidgoyal · 11-27-2014, 11:11 PM

If you increase recursions = 1 to a higher number in the recipe you should be able to download multi-page articles as well.

damien18 · 12-01-2014, 12:14 AM

I hadn't thought to try that, because with recursions=1, two-page articles were downloading properly. Now I see that recursions must be set to one less than the maximum number of pages to be downloaded. I set it to 10, because the largest number of pages I was able to find in any recent article was 11.

And, I like the redesign of the "Add custom news source" dialog. It's a bit easier to use now.

Thanks again.

11-19-2014, 11:51 PM	#1
damien18 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: Marvin 3 (iPadOS)	Cracked.com: Missing images and small image captions Within the last 10 days or so, cracked.com seems to have changed how images within its articles are displayed, as they are no longer appearing in an epub that was downloaded using the current calibre version (2.10, running under Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit) and cracked.com recipe. Unfortunately, my knowledge of recipes is very limited, and I have no idea how to fix this. Additionally, the captions underneath the images are very small, and difficult to read on my Kobo Glo. I tried to fix this by adding the following line to the recipe, but it has no effect: Code: extra_css = 'font[size="1"]:not([style]) { font-size: 12px; }' I also tried the following, in case the ":not" selector is unsupported, but with the same results: Code: extra_css = 'font[size="1"] { font-size: 12px; }' Both of the above selectors work as expected on the actual site (using Firefox with the "Stylish" extension), so I don't think it's an issue with the CSS itself. Can anyone help?

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11-27-2014, 01:50 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,525 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...9edae7961e1981

11-27-2014, 10:55 PM	#3
damien18 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: Marvin 3 (iPadOS)	This is fantastic. The images are back, and the captions are easy to read. Thanks very much. Even the "Photoplasty" articles are displaying images now, and those have always been broken. I did notice that they are only displaying the first two pages of the article, but that's still a huge improvement over no images at all (most "Photoplasty" images contain lots of text that would probably be difficult to read on an e-reader anyway). Once again, many thanks for the effort.

11-27-2014, 11:11 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,525 Karma: 24495948 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	If you increase recursions = 1 to a higher number in the recipe you should be able to download multi-page articles as well.

12-01-2014, 12:14 AM	#5
damien18 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: Marvin 3 (iPadOS)	I hadn't thought to try that, because with recursions=1, two-page articles were downloading properly. Now I see that recursions must be set to one less than the maximum number of pages to be downloaded. I set it to 10, because the largest number of pages I was able to find in any recent article was 11. And, I like the redesign of the "Add custom news source" dialog. It's a bit easier to use now. Thanks again.

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