[GH-ISSUE #28] Feature request: worksheet_insert_image() #22

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opened 2026-05-05 11:25:21 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 2 comments

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Originally created by @jmcnamara on GitHub (Dec 10, 2015).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter/issues/28

Originally assigned to: @jmcnamara on GitHub.

Add worksheet_insert_image() function like the Python XlsxWriter Worksheet method insert_image().
See https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/index.html

Difficulty: 3 (Easy 1 - 5 Hard)
Priority: 1 (High 1 - 5 Low)

Add +1 as a comment to vote for this feature and to get an update when it is implemented.

Originally created by @jmcnamara on GitHub (Dec 10, 2015). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter/issues/28 Originally assigned to: @jmcnamara on GitHub. Add `worksheet_insert_image()` function like the Python XlsxWriter Worksheet method `insert_image()`. See https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/index.html - Difficulty: 3 (Easy 1 - 5 Hard) - Priority: 1 (High 1 - 5 Low) Add +1 as a comment to vote for this feature and to get an update when it is implemented.

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@nelson2005 commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2015):

@nelson2005 commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2015): +1

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2026-05-05 11:25:35 -06:00

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@jmcnamara commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2016):

Support for this feature has been merged onto master. Documentation will be added in the next few days but it is functional if you want to try it out.

See the demo.c program in the examples dir on master. It produces this file:

Note, images in headers and footers aren't currently supported. Annoyingly Excel uses a different internal XML structure for those. That feature will be added as part of feature request #43.

@jmcnamara commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2016): Support for this feature has been merged onto master. Documentation will be added in the next few days but it is functional if you want to try it out. See the demo.c program in the examples dir on master. It produces this file: ![screenshot](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/94267/12072867/3103099c-b0f2-11e5-879e-df791971759a.png) Note, images in headers and footers aren't currently supported. Annoyingly Excel uses a different internal XML structure for those. That feature will be added as part of feature request #43.