Re: creating png snippets that aren't the full paper size

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Op zondag 22 juni 2008, schreef Francisco Vila:
> 2008/6/22 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > You read AU 4.6.3 Inserting LilyPond output into other programs,
> > from the 2.11 docs.  Actually, I think this exists in the 2.10
> > docs as well, albeit in a different document.
> >
> After a quick test I can say that the method in the manual for an
> "useful EPS" does work, while the same options (changing to --png) and
> paper block does not produce a 'minimal' PNG but a large page. We
> should investigate this...

I think:
lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts --png myfile.ly
could work nice, in addition to the other remarks on the page.

however, I most times use mogrify -trim on the PNG's to crop them. mogrify is 
part of ImageMagick.

best regards,
Wilbert Berendsen

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