Re: png cropping

[Jonathan Kulp]

I've actually tried to do this.  I booted into the Windows partition of 
my machine and installed Cygwin and the netpbm package, but I had 
trouble finding the netpbm stuff from the Cygwin bash shell.  The shell 
seemed very isolated from the rest of the machine, as I couldn't access 
any of the documents in my home directory and in general it behaved in 
much the same way that virtual machines do when I've tried running them. 
 I couldn't even figure out how to run Lilypond from the Cygwin prompt, 
and the script pretty much relies on being able to do that :)

There's probably a way to make it work, but I didn't see the point since 
everything already worked perfectly on the Unix-based systems, which are 
the only ones I use.  It would take someone who really knows Windows to 
adapt lily2image to work on it.  I would welcome it because I think it's 
an extremely useful tool and it's a shame that Windows users can't take 
advantage of it.

Patrick, you mentioned at some point along the way that it would have 
been better if I had started the whole thing in Python instead of bash. 
 Would this also have made it easier to port to Windows?  I've ordered 
a Python book and will probably start messing around with it when it 
gets here.

Jon

Patrick Horgan wrote:
> Tomas Valusek wrote:
> > Jonathan Kulp napsal(a):
> > > After much revision, addition, and general fussing about with it, I'm 
> > > happy to post the official version of what we're calling 
> > > "lily2image," a  script for converting lilypond source files to 
> > > cropped image files in many different formats suitable for insertion 
> > > into documents (theses, research papers, etc) or web pages.  This 
> > > works equally on Mac and Linux, but not on Windows.
> Well, not 100% true.  I imagine if you set up the cygwin stuff (or one 
> of the standalone Windoze bash implementations, and got all the netpbm 
> utilites installed it would work.  It would be great if someone could 
> verify that.   It's just a script, not an executable.
>
> Patrick
>
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