Peter Van Kranenburg <peter.van.kranenb...@meertens.knaw.nl> writes: > On 10/29/12 6:13 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >> writing >> \paper { paper-width=110\mm } >> \score { { c4 c4 c4 c4 } } >> and using >> lilypond -dresolution=1200 --png >> I get an image with 5197 pixels width, which is to a pixel exactly what >> was demanded. So perhaps you need to check what throws a spanner in >> your works, starting from a simple paper definition. >> > > Thank you for your suggestion. > > Invoking 'lilypond -dresolution=1200 --png' results in the right > dimensions, indeed. Thanks. I will use this. The image is not cropped > automatically, so I now have to tune the page-height as well. And I > have to set a small margin for the curly bracket of the > PianoStaff. Otherwise it would be off the page. > > The usage manual however (section 4.4) tells me to do this: > lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts --png > -dresolution=1200 figure.ly > That results in a png that is too wide. There seems another mechanism > at work to determine size of resulting image. Cropping?
I seem to remember some slop added for the sake of the manual or something. Werner? I have no idea why the more complex options would be recommended here: when converting to PNG anyhow, it would seem quite irrelevant to me which fonts are getting embedded or not in the intermediate EPS file. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user