PyPreviewGenerator 0.1.8

Generation of file previews

Presentation

This module allows to generate jpeg and pdf preview for virtually any kind of files. It allows to generate preview for a given page. The context of creation of this module (as an example of use context) was for Tracim, a github project (https://github.com/Tracim/tracim) where users can put file on a repository in order to share it with other users. The only way to find a file was with his name. Hence it was decided to generate previews of the files in order to ease the location of one.

Format handled

	JPEG	PDF	TEXT	HTML
PNG	&#9745
JPEG	&#9745
BMP	&#9745
GIF	&#9745
PDF	&#9745
Compressed files			&#9745	&#9745
Office files (word, LibreOffice)	&#9745	&#9745
Text			&#9745

Installation

pip install preview_generator

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Uses

Getting a preview

from PyPreviewGenerator.manager import *
manager = PreviewManager(path='/home/user/Pictures/')
path_to_file = manager.get_jpeg_preview(
  file_path='/home/user/Pictures/myfile.gif',
  height=100,
  width=100,
)
print('Preview created at path : ', path_to_file)

The preview manager

preview_manager = PreviewManager(cache_path)

args :

cache_path : a String of the path to the directory where the cache file will be stored

returns :

a PreviewManager Object

The builders

Here is the way it is meant to be used

For Office types into PDF :

preview_manager = PreviewManager(cache_path)
preview = preview_manager.get_pdf_preview(file_path,page=page_id)

-> Will create a preview from an office file into a pdf file

args :

file_path : the String of the path where is the file you want to get the preview

page : the page you want to get. If not mentioned all the pages will be returned

returns :

a FileIO stream of bytes of the pdf preview

For images(GIF, BMP, PNG, JPEG) into jpeg:

preview_manager = PreviewManager(cache_path)
preview = preview_manager.get_jpeg_preview(file_path,height=1024,width=526)

-> Will create a preview from an image file into a jpeg file of size 1024 * 526

args :

file_path : the String of the path where is the file you want to get the preview

height : height of the preview in pixels

width : width of the preview in pixels. If not mentioned, width will be the same as height

returns :

a FileIO stream of byte*s of the jpeg preview