I like  that Shane [0]  provides local  text copies of  articles for
viewing on gopher, and I decided to  do the same for the EFF article
in my last phlog entry [1].

So I  have a local  copy of the  article and associated  images here
[2], and  you might be interested  in the process I  used.  First, I
grabbed the article text with elinks:

elinks -dump -dump-charset us-ascii -no-numbering -no-references \
https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror \
> behind-the-one-way-mirror.txt

Elinks nicely  formats the HTML  tables as text, something  lynx did
not do.

The images I collected with lynx, perl and wget:

lynx -dump -image_links \
https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror | \
egrep '(*jpg|*png)' | \
perl -nle 'print $1 if /(http.+?(png|jpg))$/' | \
xargs wget

I then down-converted the  images with ImageMagick's convert program
so they are about 1/3 the original  size, here is how I did that for
each image:

convert original.png -ordered-dither o8x8 result.png

That preserves the color, but you can get more size savings by
converting the image to grayscale.

convert original.png -colorspace gray -ordered-dither o8x8 result.png

You could get even more savings by scaling the image dimensions down -
some are visibly quite large. But the byte sizes are all pretty small
now, and would load in a second or three even on a 28.8 dialup
connection. The convert command provides a '-scale' option for this.

Finally, I put the article text and images together in a directory,
and used the itemtype '1' to link to it. That nicely keeps things
together in the gopher client when you view it. The Overbite NX plugin
works great with recent versions of Firefox if you want a way to
easily view the images via gopher without leaving your browser.

(I found these image conversion  commands while reading a phlog post
some time ago, and saved the  commands in my notes, although sadly I
do not have the source link).

[0] gopher://ascendingcreations.com/1/shane
[1] https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror
[2] gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/1/~slugmax/articles/eff-corporate-surveillance

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