> On 22 Jan 2026, at 19:59, [email protected] wrote: > > Lodewijk de Vries-van Hoeijen: > ... >> I’ve been using LilyPond for many years, and until recently I always >> included >> \include "lilypond-book-preamble.ly" >> at the top of my files. When exporting to PNG via Frescobaldi, this >> resulted in small images without extra white space around them, which was >> exactly what I needed. > ... > > Same here, but I use eps instead. > Works fine with version 2.25.1, what version do you have ?
Most likely Lodewijk is on latest Lilypond stable (2.24.4). IT administrators usually opt for a ’Stable release’ over ‘Unstable release’. I can replicate the symptoms on 2.24.4 (MacPorts build) and can resolve in in line with the comment history of issue https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6235 Method 1 adapt the commandline to include the required flag: -dseparate-page-formats=png (for page per system) or -dtall-page-formats=png (for a cropped image of all systems) On Frescobaldie these can be added in the Engrave (Custom)… dialog  Method 2 (an alternative way to set the options that doesn’t need command-line switches) after the include of the lilypond-book-preamble add #(ly:set-option 'separate-page-formats 'png) (for page per system) or #(ly:set-option ’tall-page-formats 'png) (for a cropped image of all systems) HTH kind regards, Hans Aikema
