Libsass Image Size Plugin

Native libsass plugin adding functions to query image dimensions.

Introduction

This plugin only supports PNG, JPG and GIF image formats. These are the common image formats used on the web (beside SVG maybe). Those three image formats are well defined and querying the dimensions is rather simple. Therefore we don't need any 3rd party image libraries to get the job done.

Building

You need to have libsass already compiled or installed as a shared library (inclusive header files). It is then compiled via cmake. See this example to compile it on windows via MinGW Compiler Suite:

git clone https://github.com/sass/libsass.git
mingw32-make -C libsass BUILD=shared CC=gcc -j5
git clone https://github.com/mgreter/libsass-img-size.git
cd libsass-img-size && mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" .. -DLIBSASS_DIR="..\..\libsass"
mingw32-make CC=gcc -j5 && dir img-size.dll

You may define LIBSASS_INCLUDE_DIR and LIBSASS_LIBRARY_DIR separately!

API

The following functions are available when you import the img-size plugin.

• image-size($url) - Returns image dimensions as a list with spaces
• image-width($url) - Returns image width as number with px as unit
• image-height($url) - Returns image height as number with px as unit

The url is resolved via sass_compiler_find_file, which will in turn look for the given file in all include directories. The first file encountered will be used. If no file can be found, a error is raised.

Copyright

© 2017 Marcel Greter