Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites:
$ glue source output
- The latest documentation is available at: http:https://glue.readthedocs.org
- Installation instructions: http:https://glue.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html
- Automatic Sprite(PNG+CSS) creation.
- Supports multi sprite projects.
- Automatically crop unnecessary transparent borders around the source images.
- Configurable paddings per image, sprite or project.
- Generate .less files.
- Automatically post-process sprite images using OptiPNG.
- Read configuration from static config files.
- Configurable cache busting for sprite images.
For example using the gorgeous famfamfam icons (4.2Mb) you will get
the following icons.png (401Kb).
And also a icons.css with all the necessary CSS classes for this sprite:
.sprite-icons-zoom_out{ background:url('icons.png'); top:0; left:0; no-repeat;}
.sprite-icons-zoom_in{ background:url('icons.png'); top:0; left:-16; no-repeat;}
.sprite-icons-zoom{ background:url('icons.png'); top:-16; left:0; no-repeat;}
.sprite-icons-xhtml_valid{ background:url('icons.png'); top:-16; left:-16; no-repeat;}
...
Do you want to know more? Visit the quickstart guide: http:https://glue.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html