Re: Creating PNG output of music snippets is always the size of a page

[Mats Bengtsson]

As long as it's a single line score, try the --preview option.

  /Mats

Quoting Charles Cave <address@hidden>:

> When I run lilypond with the --png command line switch, the generated
> PNG file is the size of the printed page.  How can I make this image 
> small enough
> so the image is cropped?  It is rather tedious to open the file with GIMP and
> manually crop the image.
>
> The image created from the input file below was 859 x 1111 pixels
> (8.506 x 11.001 inches ... obviously the page size).
>
> I am running LilyPond 2.8.3 on Windows XP
>
> E:\>lilypond --png  noscore.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.8.3
> Processing `noscore.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... [1]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Calculating line breaks... [2]
> Calculating page breaks...
> Layout output to `noscore.ps'...
> Converting to PNG...
>
>
> noscore.ly contains:
>
> \version "2.8.3"
>
> \score {
> \context Staff \relative c'' { c8 c c16 c c c }
>    \layout{
>    \context {
>      \Staff
>      \remove Staff_symbol_engraver
>    }
> }
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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