Re: Produce just a small png file

[Patrick McCarty]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Patrick McCarty <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Bernardo Barros
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> How to make lilypond produce just a compact png file, with the size
>> just to fit the music, without a complete page layouts. And not
>> compiling ps/pdf, but just .png?
>
> Run this command:
>
> lilypond -dpreview file.ly
>
> If you are using 2.13 (I can't remember which version this was added),
> you can get compact SVG files too:
>
> lilypond -dpreview -dbackend=svg file.ly

I forgot to mention that this only outputs the first system of music.

-Patrick