Vignette is a Python library to create and manage thumbnails following the FreeDesktop standard.

Overview

Vignette

Vignette is a Python library to create and manage thumbnails following the FreeDesktop standard.

Thumbnails are stored in a shared directory so other apps following the standard can reuse them without having to generate their own thumbnails.

Vignette can typically be used in file managers, image browsers, etc.

Thumbnails are not limited to image files on disk but can be generated for other file types, for example videos or documents but also for any URL, for example a web browser could store thumbnails for recently visited pages or bookmarks.

Vignette by itself can only generate thumbnails for local files but can retrieve thumbnail for any file or URL, if another app generated a thumbnail for it. An app can also generate a thumbnail by its own means and use vignette to push that thumbnail to the store.

The range of files for which vignette can generate thumbnails depends on plugins as it supports third-party libraries and tools. For example, if the evince-thumbnailer command is installed, it will be able to generate thumbnails for PDF files.

Install

From PyPI:

pip install vignette

Documentation

The documentation can be read online.

This library has querying functions, that do not generate thumbnails, and can be used with files or URLs, that can be non-images:

  • build_thumbnail_path
  • try_get_thumbnail
  • is_thumbnail_failed

It has functions that have side effects, which write thumbnails, or "fail-files" (if a thumbnail couldn't be generated), they can require local-files (see the function's doc):

  • get_thumbnail
  • create_thumbnail
  • put_thumbnail
  • put_fail

Examples

Just ask for thumbnails of local images, automatically creating them if necessary:

import vignette

thumb_image = vignette.get_thumbnail('/my/file.jpg')
local_app_display(thumb_image)

Ask for a thumbnail or generate it manually, for example a web-browser generating pages previews, that this module can't do itself:

import vignette

orig_url = 'http://example.com/file.pdf'
thumb_image = vignette.try_get_thumbnail(orig_url, mtime=0) # mtime is not used in this example

if not thumb_image:
  thumb_image = vignette.build_thumbnail_path(orig_url, 'large')
  try:
    local_app_make_preview(orig_url, thumb_image)
  except NetworkError:
    vignette.put_fail(orig_url, 'mybrowser-1.0', mtime=0)
  else:
    thumb_image = vignette.put_thumbnail(orig_url, 'large', mtime=0)
  if is_thumbnail_failed(orig_url):
    thumb_image = 'error.png'

local_app_display(thumb_image)

Requirements

Vignette works with both Python 2 and Python 3.

Vignette requires at least one image backend to work properly. See the backends section below.

Backends

Vignette does not contain image format code. In order to generate a thumbnail from an image or update metadata as required by the Freedestkop standard, vignette uses external libraries. The dependencies are "lazy" though: if an external library is missing, vignette ignores it and falls back on other equivalent libs.

Backends are divided in 2 types:

  • thumbnail backends, which create a thumbnail image from a source image file, a source video file, or another input URL
  • metadata backends, which are used internally in vignette to manage the metadata of thumbnails

Vignette currently has thumbnail/metadata backends supporting:

  • Python Imaging Library (PIL)
  • PyQt
  • PythonMagick

One of these libraries is required for vignette to work in basic cases (thumbnailing local images).

Vignette has additional thumbnail backends to support these tools:

If a lib is not present, vignette continues to operate but thumbnails for certain file formats may not be generated.

License

Vignette is licensed under the WTFPLv2.

Version

Vignette is currently at version 5.0.0 and uses Semantic Versioning.

Owner
If you like free software, go to https://gitlab.com/hydrargyrum instead
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