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.

sphinxcontrib-images

sphinxcontrib-images (formerly sphinxcontrib-fancybox).

Easy sphinx thumbnails (focused on HTML).

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

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',
          …
          ]

Example:

.. thumbnail:: picture.png

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

If you have any suggstions, patches, problems - please use GitHub Issues.