Re: PNG output with Lilypond?

[Carter Brey]

David Boersma wrote:

> > I am trying to create a png output file with Lilypond.  I tried:
> >    lilypond -f PNG test.ly
> >    
>
> Yesterday there was also a question about PNG generation. In UNIX/Linux
> there is a beautiful command "convert" which translates one picture format
> into another. If you create a single page postscript file mymusic.ps with
> lilypond, then with the command ...
>
> convert mymusic.ps mymusic.png
>
>  
David is right, and 'convert' will also automatically create separate 
png files for each page of a mulitpage ps file. Boy, does this make 
sense. It's a beautiful example of a tiny Unix command that you can 
daisychain onto your lilypond command, e.g.

ly2dvi -P foo.ly && convert foo.ps foo.png

will produce foo.png.0 and foo.png.1 if foo.ps is a two-page postscript 
file.

So economical and elegant. I love it.

Thanks,
Carter

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