Changing past comics

[Oualawouzou]

Heya there!

We get enough "I messed up my archives!" post, so for a change, here's a question that pre-empts any possible damage. :p

I want to upload new version of all past comics. They'll just be a little smaller, so nothing incredibly important, but I'd like all my comics past and future to be of the same size for the sake of consistency. I know that reuploading dailytemplate.html and triggering a manual update will do the trick for layout changes, but since I'm modifying the comics themselves, should I do the same thing? What I plan to do for now is upload all new versions of past comics in workspace/comics, reupload dailytemplate.html and trigger a manual update. Should it work or will it mess things up?

Thanks!

[The Neko]

Well, if they are all labeled the same, you can change the comic files themselves by going into the public folder and replacing the image files directly. I do that sometimes to fix typos without doing a full archive update.

[War]

No.
Autokeen generates <img> tags that are Wc3 compliant. They have the image dimensions in the tag. Upload a smaller comic and it'll be stretched by the image tag, upload a bigger one and it'll be squashed. To change comic size you have to delete the old comics, upload the new ones to workspace comics and trigger an update.

[Oualawouzou]

No.
Autokeen generates <img> tags that are Wc3 compliant. They have the image dimensions in the tag. Upload a smaller comic and it'll be stretched by the image tag, upload a bigger one and it'll be squashed. To change comic size you have to delete the old comics, upload the new ones to workspace comics and trigger an update.

You mean I only delete the files in the comics folder, or do I have to delete the ones in "d" too?

[Moghendhim]

/d/ too. From what War says, autokeen writes the html tag to display the comic with the size of the comic included in it, so all the /d/ pages have the wrong size written into them.