sphinxcontrib-images 0.9.4

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

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.