Re: .ly to .svg - can't manage to get anything working

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Pieter-Jan Van Damme wrote
> Hello guys,
> 
> I've been looking for a method to get Lilypond to output to .svg but none
> of the methods described online worked for me (I'm using Windows 7).
> 
> I tried:
> 
> 1) using the command line... well, the documentation has left me even more
> confused than before I tried it. That may be because I am not overly
> familiar with the command line. And I'm suspecting the documentation is
> Linux-oriented.
> 
> 2) when importing a .pdf into Inkscape the note heads and clefs fail to
> materialize. Somewhere online it was said I should either uninstall some
> Windows updates (https://plus.google.com/+inkscape/posts/RV4qMPKFXkn -
> didn't work) or install a font (didn't find the ones referenced; either
> Feta ).
> 
> Would you guys have any suggestions for a novice like myself?
> 
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Pieter,

The font files aren't in the regular system font folder (you probably
already figured that out). Thay should be found in a folder like:

C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\fonts\otf

The font files are actually called "emmentaler-XX.otf". Just copy all of
them (including the Century Schoolbook ones) to the regular system font
folder (C:\Windows\Fonts) and everything should work in Inkscape. On
Windows, this would be the easiest thing for now.

To create SVG output scores, you need to add the lilypond.exe directory
(C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin) to the PATH environment variable, but
then you should be able to follow any of the regular command line
instructions in the online manual, like:

lilypond -dbackend=svg test.ly

Regards,
Abraham



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