Re: generating pdf and png but no ps

[Jonathan Kulp]

Sebastian,

Your situation is perfectly suited for the script that Patrick Horgan 
and I wrote.  Now, the script also crops the extra white space off, so 
you might need to edit the script a bit if you don't want the margins 
cropped off. Just look for the part in the loop that uses pnmcrop.  It 
handles multipage files just fine, and it cleans up .ps files as part of 
the process.  It's very easy to set the resolution and output format 
(png is default, but it also supports many other formats).  Your command 
looks like this for a png output at 72 DPI:

lily2image -r=72 -f=png filename.ly

You can also make a transparent background if you want, and you can set 
it to preview the converted files in your default image viewer with a -p 
 flag.

The only dependency is the netpbm package, easily obtained from most 
linux repositories I would guess.

Script and manpage are attached.

Jonathan

Sebastian Menge wrote:
> Am Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:38:39 +0200
> schrieb Sebastian Menge <address@hidden>:
>
> > How can I generate pdf and png but no ps?
> >
> > Can I adjust resolution of the png? I just need thumbnails.
> >
> > Is there a simple way to see (e.g. from the shell or an external
> > programming language) how many png-pages lilypond produced?
>
> Ok, to clarify this a bit:
>
> I'm invoking lilypond from a php-application and want to reduce the
> number of shell commands as far as possible. I also dont want to tidy
> up any mess that is generated but not needed. I just want the most
> elegant way to generate a pdf and some thumbs to offer it on a web page.
>
> And I know 'rm' and 'imagemagick' :-)
>
> But it seems I need to write a wrapper for that.
>
> Seb.
>
>
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