added two new settings to help control which images get embedded in css

pipeline/compressors/__init__.py

@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ from pipeline.conf import settings
 from pipeline.utils import to_class, relpath
 from pipeline.storage import default_storage
 
-MAX_IMAGE_SIZE = 32700
-
 EMBEDDABLE = r'[/]?embed/'
 URL_DETECTOR = r'url\([\'"]?([^\s)]+\.[a-z]+[\?\#\d\w]*)[\'"]?\)'
 URL_REPLACER = r'url\(__EMBED__(.+?)(\?\d+)?\)'
@@ -157,13 +155,15 @@ class Compressor(object):
         """Is the asset embeddable ?"""
         name, ext = os.path.splitext(path)
         font = ext in FONT_EXTS
+        
         if not variant:
             return False
-        if not (re.search(EMBEDDABLE, path) and self.storage.exists(path)):
+        if not ((settings.PIPELINE_EMBED_ALL_IMAGES or re.search(EMBEDDABLE, path)) and \
+            self.storage.exists(path)):
             return False
         if not ext in EMBED_EXTS:
             return False
-        if not (font or len(self.encoded_content(path)) < MAX_IMAGE_SIZE):
+        if not (font or len(self.encoded_content(path)) < settings.PIPELINE_EMBED_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE):
             return False
         return True
 

pipeline/conf/settings.py

 from django.conf import settings
 
-
 PIPELINE = getattr(settings, 'PIPELINE', not settings.DEBUG)
 PIPELINE_ROOT = getattr(settings, 'PIPELINE_ROOT', settings.STATIC_ROOT)
 PIPELINE_URL = getattr(settings, 'PIPELINE_URL', settings.STATIC_URL)
@@ -56,5 +55,8 @@ PIPELINE_MIMETYPES = getattr(settings, 'PIPELINE_MIMETYPES', (
     ('text/javascript', '.js')
 ))
 
+PIPELINE_EMBED_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE = getattr(settings, 'PIPELINE_EMBED_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE', 32700)
+PIPELINE_EMBED_ALL_IMAGES = getattr(settings, 'PIPELINE_EMBED_ALL_IMAGES', False)
+
 if PIPELINE_COMPILERS is None:
     PIPELINE_COMPILERS = []