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Post by Randle-El on May 2, 2014 22:21:15 GMT -5
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shaxper
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Post by shaxper on May 2, 2014 22:36:44 GMT -5
I'm pretty weighed down with arbitrating tense discussions, drafting policy, and working out a gazillion bugs in the board setup right now. If anyone else could explore this for me, I'd greatly appreciate it!  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 2, 2014 22:47:10 GMT -5
I hadn't thought of that... good idea.
Legal aspect? I can't imagine anything on that end, as long as there's no CBR logo, and even then, it'd be just like posting a comic cover or page, wouldn't it?
They don't own content we post, do they?
(I admit I never really read those silly T&C documents)
OK: I did in fact read the T&C... nothing in there, so we should be good to go.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 3, 2014 20:27:33 GMT -5
I had a thought for stuff like the Christmas threads, and stuff like the 'what did you buy' and whatnot.
We can make an entire thread into a since PDF or JPG with archive mode, so what if we did that and stored them in a google account, dedicated to the board? The files could all be tagged as read only, so people could see them, but not accidently deleted anything.
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Post by impulse on May 3, 2014 21:26:04 GMT -5
I had a thought for stuff like the Christmas threads, and stuff like the 'what did you buy' and whatnot. We can make an entire thread into a since PDF or JPG with archive mode, so what if we did that and stored them in a google account, dedicated to the board? The files could all be tagged as read only, so people could see them, but not accidently deleted anything. That is a good idea, but I wanted to point out one difficulty I found when archiving some threads. The archive format does not preserve the bbcode, specifically quotes. I'm not sure how the threads you are referencing are formatted, but if there are many quotes it becomes nearly impossible to read. The quoted's sentences run right into the quoter's, etc. I couldn't tell where my sentences began and the other guy's ended. I did have luck saving threads as PDF, though. I found a handy Firefox Addon, the cleverly named "Print pages to Pdf"  , that lets you print every open tab into a PDF document. It may be a tad unwieldy, but you can open a tab for each page and then use the addon. I archived a thread this way with 10 pages per PDF and compressed a thread into 8 pages, but there's no reason you couldn't do it in a single one. I hope this helps! |
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Post by Jasoomian on May 4, 2014 11:41:08 GMT -5
I think you';ll be fine with PDF archives, since you're not publishing any proprietary code or anything. Certainly anything that you yourself posted can be republished somewhere else without trouble.
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Post by coke & comics on May 12, 2014 14:25:31 GMT -5
I'm curious how people's efforts are going and if there are other suggestions. I have had a difficult time because I am (a) traveling and (b) don't have a computer.
In particular, httrack required installation and I have nothing I can install it on, it turns out.
I am attempting to save just a few threads to my google drive in some format.
I went to the archive version of the old format and saved a single thread as a .mhtml file (I don't know what that means), which my browser seems capable of displaying. Did somebody say it was possible to save it as a .pdf easily?
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Post by coke & comics on May 12, 2014 14:35:07 GMT -5
I have poking at this... you can actually print the thread to a PDF, and it takes the entire thread, so that's a great way to save stuff. I wonder, is there a way to convert said PDF to a text file while keeping the post demarkation intact? Yes. You said I can print to a pdf. How do I do that? |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 13, 2014 13:17:01 GMT -5
If you use Google Chrome, just hit the print button, and change the printer to 'save as PDF'. If you use something else, Cute PDF is a good, free extension that allows the same thing in firefox and Explorer. www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp |
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Post by impulse on May 13, 2014 15:05:15 GMT -5
The easiest way I found to do it with PDF is a Firefox Addon called "Print pages to Pdf" that lets you print every open tab into a PDF document. Just go to your thread, open each page in a new tab, right-click, and BOOM. It combines them all into a single PDF or as many as you want...I broke one thread up into 10 pages per PDF. Also, if you haven't (not sure if you can at this point) go to your settings and set it to show 40 posts per page. I normally use Chrome, but I downloaded Firefox just for this. It was an absolute breeze. Someone at CBR posted a GREAT way to use the httrack software. I found it too cumbersome at first, but this works well albeit slowly: By default HttpTrack will download the whole website, and specifying the start address of a single thread in the "Web Addresses: (URL)" field does not stop that. It will just follow all the links from the thread start page out to the rest of the site. And so on recursively from the links in those pages. You can restrict it to a single thread with A LITTLE extra work though. Say you want to save the thread with ID 56361. 1. First specify the thread start address in "Web Addresses". Something like: http://oldforums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?563612. Then click "Set options..." to open the options dialog. In that, click the "Scan Rules" tab. Once there, edit the white textbox to include (only) the following three lines: -*
+oldforums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?56361*page*
+*.gif +*.jpg +*.png +*.js +*.cssThe first one skips everything, the second one enables only the URLs for the threads pages (* is wildcard) and the last one enables downloading of images (gif,jpg,png) as well as Javascript and CSS files used by the thread pages. Note: Seems user avatars are not referenced by any image extensions so the filter above will not include them in the download. If you want them then this line can be added to the three filter lines: +oldforums.comicbookresources.com/image.php*I just tested this with a random thread and managed to download only the required files. |
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, that lets you print every open tab into a PDF document. It may be a tad unwieldy, but you can open a tab for each page and then use the addon. I archived a thread this way with 10 pages per PDF and compressed a thread into 8 pages, but there's no reason you couldn't do it in a single one.
