Questions tagged [image-dired]
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Thumbnail previews of PDF files
If I select image files in a Dired buffer and do C-t C-t, a nice little thumbnail appears. But if I try this with PDF files, nothing happens. I would expect to see a thumbnail of the first page of the PDF.
Is this normal? Is there an easy way to…

Brian Z
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Page thumbnails for pdf-tools?
Q: is there an image-dired analog to make thumbnails in pdf-tools?
image-dired provides
facilities to browse images in a directory by thumbnail. Is there
analogous functionality
for pdf-tools?
The use case I see is in jumping to different pages. …

Dan
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Using Emacs/Org to Create a Tagged, Searchable Collection with Images
Background
After exiting the Linux world for a few years to do the gaming PC thing, I have recently come back to the fold. For the most part, the transition has been easy, but there's one 'tool' I'm having problem replacing: Evernote.
As some of you…
user17626
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Organizing images in emacs
There is image-mode and image-dired, but if you want to do anything except sequential viewing, they become clunky quickly. And they are slow for good quality photographs.
I would like to be able to go through my collection, quickly deleting and…

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How to make image display follow the focus in image-dired thumbnail buffer
There are two buffers in image-dired, one is the thumbnail buffer *image-dired*, the other is the displayed image buffer *image-dired-display-image*.
When I type return on an image thumbnail, the focus is switched to the displayed image buffer.
Is…

godblessfq
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Problem with Image-Dired: image display does not follow point in the thumbnail buffer
I typed "C-t d" after marking files in Dired, or "M-x image-dired" followed by a directory name, to display thumbnails in a thumbnail buffer. After highlighting a thumbnail in the thumbnail buffer, I typed RET to display a sized version of…

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Regex to match one tag and not the other in image-dired
In image-dired I use M-x image-dired-mark-tagged-files to mark files containing a tag using regexp. e.g. oil.
What regex do I need to mark oil but not wip (work in progress).
Input:
/foo/IMG_2022.JPG;art;oil;wip
/foo/IMG_2023.JPG;oil;art;
Output…

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Thumbnails not displaying with image-dired
Background: I recently found out about image-dired, so I'm playing around with it and trying to get it to work. It seems to mostly work, but when I image-dired into a directory (we'll call it ~/Documents/Images) that has a handful of images it only…

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image-dired: Change thickness of cursor
On a hires screen I find it really hard to see on which image the cursor currently is, because the rectangle around the image is very thin. Is it possible to increase the line width of that rectangle?
Already I looked through customization options,…

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Display AVIF images?
I enabled image-use-external-converter, and I added avif to image-file-name-extensions and AVIF to imagemagick-enabled-types. However, that doesn't do the trick.
I would like AVIF files to render in a buffer as well as in image-dired.

feklee
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How to change icon associated with a file-extension in Dired and all-the-icons?
I use dired with (all-the-icons-dired which uses all-the-icons).
Current State:
.m file presented with apple logo.
Goal: Change (override) icon of .m file to same as icon of .matlab file extension.
What I've tried So far: from…

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What is the image-dired regexp for line-end?
In image-dired I use M-x image-dired-mark-tagged-files to mark files containing a tag using regexp. e.g. jan. The problem is that jane is marked as well.
What regex do I need to mark jan but not…

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How to view images on server in near real time
Normally I do all work locally (data analysis, image generation, etc.). However, recently I've started using the server more. When working locally I'll write the analysis code (in Python), generate the image, open the image to see what needs…

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How to make image-dired work on remote files?
I've tried sshand scp for tramp's method (both work for tramp), yet image-dired thumbnail creation fails
Thumb could not be created for /scp:raspi:/media/pi/91D4-7E58//IMG_1.JPG: exited abnormally with code 1
Do I need to setup filesharing e.g. nfs…

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How to make dired-mode copy and move all marked file in all dired buffer including the one just closed?
I want to mark interesting files while I am browsing my folders, when I am done with marking, I want to copy these files to another place (with dired copy or dired-ranger-copy) or send them as attachment. To prevent too many dired buffer I have this…

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