MOVED TO https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/images

I'm not maintaining this repo and extension anymore, good people from sphinx-contrib took care of this.

Please use https://github.com/sphinx-contrib/images

sphinxcontrib-images

sphinxcontrib-images (formerly sphinxcontrib-fancybox).

Easy sphinx thumbnails (focused on HTML).

• Documentation,
• Repository (GitHub),
• PyPI.

• TravisCI <https://travis-ci.org/spinus/sphinxcontrib-images>

  

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/spinus/sphinxcontrib-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 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.