Questions tagged [image-mode]
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Shrink/Zoom/Scale images in image-mode
With Emacs' doc-view-mode I can easily shrink/zoom/etc PDFs, however, I would like to be able to do the same thing with images. Currently when I open an image I cannot adjust the zoom level to fit it to the frame. I know there is…

Lee H
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Is it possible to insert images from the web with its url?
Is it possible to insert images directly from the web with its url in org-mode? i.e. Can I paste something like this into emacs' buffer, so that it changes into the image of a cat in the link in image…

stacko
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Making an image (ie. image-mode) auto reload changes from disk
I have an image generated by plantuml which I open in an Image mode buffer. I want to use Auto-Revert mode so it auto-refreshes, but it doesn't seem to work on Image mode buffers for some reason. Is there something I'm missing?

Mark
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Which image viewer for large image collections?
From the built-in and MELPA available packages, which combination offers the easiest approach to managing a large collection of images (over 100K) in various formats (raw, jpg, tiff, png). I mainly want to view thumbnails, view full images to fit on…

Emacs User
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Display images in eshell with `iimage-mode`
My default shell is eshell. I just discovered iimage-mode that allows me to display images in buffers that contain some reference to an image file. Unfortunately, I doesn't seem to have any effect when it is enabled in eshell.
In any other buffer…
user2005
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iimage-mode - resize an image in Markdown mode to fit the window
I would love to be able to see images in Markdown that are rescaled to fit into my window. I googled for the answer but could not find how to rescale images shown with iimage-mode in Markdown. I can see a solution for org-mode or an image open with…

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How to see preview of svg file I'm editing?
I'm editing a svg file and want to see how it looks like. I tried opening a window with the same buffer and change to image-mode but it change the mode in both windows. I tried opening the same file in a different buffer, but it didn't allow me.
So…

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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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Can't display images in org-mode
I am on MacOS High Sierra, iterm2; I cannot find how to display images in org-mode. My term supports image display as imgcat works well within my shell. When I try to open the image link in emacs it returns Display not supported then the verbose is…

Holzy Corp
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How to set thumbnail size in image-dired
I've tried setting image-dired-thumb-size (and/or image-dired-thumb-height image-dired-thumb-width) and it has no effect. I've set it globally in .emacs and in various mode-hooks, all to no avail. The default value is 100 and I change it to 256 and…

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Always view *.pdb files as text file
I frequently work with Protein Data Bank files. These are text files that contain atomic level structure information of molecules. They can be recognized by their '.pdb' extension.
Whenever editing them in Emacs (GNU Emacs 24.3.1), in the main…

Steven C. Howell
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How one can save images in emacs?
I am trying to open images in image-mode and apply some modifications and finally save the image with image-save. Please refer here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Showing-Images.html
Something strange happens that some…

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Display JPEGs scaled to fit buffer, but PNGs without scaling?
In almost all cases, I want to see JPEGs such as photos scaled to the current buffer size. This is the default with image-mode. However, for PNG files, primarity screenshots, I want to view them without scaling by default.
How do I best assign…

feklee
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Previewing large images in emacs
I've found that if I open an image in Emacs over 1MB it starts to take a while. I justed opened up a 3MB and it took 16seconds. I'm just using the default image-mode is there a better way?
Is there a way to shrink the preview image before putting…

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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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