Re: faster lilypond rendering

[Erik Sandberg]

Citerar Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>:

> Quoting Erik Sandberg <address@hidden>:
> > ...
> >> BTW, some watching of the process leads me to think that one of the
> >> biggest performance sinks is conversion to PDF.
> >
> > Sounds very strange. However, if ps->pdf conversion does take forever,
> then
> > you can always use the --ps switch to lilypond (which skips the pdf
> > generation phase).
> 
> Unfortunately, that's not true on Windows, where it seems that GSView
> is unable to handle Postscript files from LilyPond, no matter what
> ghostscript version you use. See the mailing list archives for more
> information.

Hm, then maybe -b svg can be used instead. That does however require a decent
SVG viewing program.

Erik