Hello ________________________________________ From: bug-lilypond-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org [bug-lilypond-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org] on behalf of Phil Holmes [m...@philholmes.net] Sent: 31 July 2011 10:40 To: bug-lilypond@gnu.org Subject: Re: png output with transparency and the option to have the renderingcropped to the score
"Bart Deruyter" <bart.deruy...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:loom.20110719t173519-...@post.gmane.org... > Hi, > I have asked on the mailinglist how to output the lilypond file to a png > with > transparency and cropped to the score itself. It seems not to be possible > in > lilypond natively, but it would be very usefull. > > When creating a book with many, short pieces of music, it is handy to have > high > resolution png's with transparency, so they can be combined with > differently > colored backgrounds and images. Of course there is the option to render to > svg, > and edit the svg file, but that is a step too many when dealing with lot's > of > images. > > It would be great to see this feature appear in lilypond to render to png > with > transparency, and the option to crop to the score itself, without page > background, nor margins. > > Thanks, > > Bart Deruyter I can't find whether this was ever answered, but a search of the mail lists shows that this can already be done: lilypond --png -dpixmap-format=pngalpha file.ly ------- Added by me in Documentation for Usage in 2.15.x tree. Doc: Usage added command for transparent pngs author James Lowe <james.l...@datacore.com> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:03:48 +0000 (23:03 +0100) committer James Lowe <james.l...@datacore.com> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:03:49 +0000 (23:03 +0100) commit eed7b5f33c8e40860924c414b0feae8e0393f39d James _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
