Re: PNG output with Lilypond?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> address@hidden writes:
>  
>
> > We have seen this question often now, isn't it time to add a flag to ly2dvi
> > (or add a new script ly2fig) to produce a .png or whatever graphics format?
> > Of course, it should not include any page header or footer but it's not 
> > clear
> > to me if it should include other header information.
> >
> > As others have explained, the current workaround is to make a dummy
> > (in case you're target document isn't done with texi, latex or html)
> > document, run lilypond-book and use the lily-xxxxxx.png or .eps files.
> >    
>
> That's possible, but going from PS to PNG is a generic operation,
> perhaps it's enough to mention the command the documentation? It's
> something like
>
>  gs -sDEVICE=png -sOutputFile="foo-%d.png" foo.ps
Yes, but I've spent hours trying to figure out the details of "something 
like"
during the years and we also want to strip away some whitespace and
headers/footers, so I definitely think it's worth an option of its own.

   /Mats

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