Re: Landscape and PNG

[Simon Albrecht]

On 04.10.2015 16:58, David Kastrup wrote:
> Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > perhaps this is more of an enhancement (?), but currently PNG files
> > are output with 90° counterclockwise rotation, if the paper is in a
> > landscape format. See attached example; the command used was
> >
> > $lilypond --png -dresolution=100 -danti-alias-factor=1
> > png-landscape.ly In case it be important: Ubuntu 14.04, 64-bit.
> >
> > Yours, Simon
> >
> >
> > \version "2.19.28"
> > \paper { #(set-paper-size "a10" 'landscape) }
> > \header { tagline = ##f }
> > \markup "orientation"
> Well, why would you select landscape orientation if you don't want it?
> Are you sure you don't actually mean
>
> \paper { #(set-paper-size "a10landscape") }
>
> namely just a landscape paper format but no landscape orientation?

Astounding. I had never heard of that distinction in LilyPond before, 
but you’re right. So it was just the confusion of a user, who is used to 
landscape documents being rotated on the way to the printer rather than 
at the creation of the document, and puzzled that this is behaving 
different for PNG than for PDF.

Thanks, Simon