sphinxcontrib-images

sphinxcontrib-images (formerly sphinxcontrib-fancybox <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-fancybox>_).

Easy thumbnails in Sphinx documentation (focused on HTML).

• Documentation <https://sphinxcontrib-images.readthedocs.io>_

• Repository (GitHub) <https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/images/>_

• PyPI <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-images/>_

• GitHub actions <https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/images/actions/workflows/ci.yml>_

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Features

• Show thumbnails instead of full size images inside documentation (HTML).

• Ability to zoom/enlarge picture using LightBox2 (HTML).

• Ability to group pictures

• Download remote pictures and keep it in cache (if requested)

• Support for other formats (latex, epub, ... - fallback to image directive)

• Easy to extend (add own backend in only few lines of code)

  • Add other HTML "preview" solution than LightBox2
  • Add better support to non-HTML outputs
  • Preprocess images

TODO ^^^^

• Make proper thumbnails (scale down images)

How to install?

Instalation through pip: ::

pip install sphinxcontrib-images

or through the GitHub: ::

pip install git+https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/images

Next, you have to add extension to conf.py in your Sphinx project. ::

extensions = [
          …
          'sphinxcontrib.images',
          …
          ]

How to use it?

Example: ::

.. thumbnail:: picture.png

You can also override the default image directive provided by Sphinx. Check the documentation for all configuration options.

Questions and suggestions

If you have any suggstions, patches, problems - please use GitHub Issues <https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/images/issues>_.