Re: Creating pngs bounded to example size

[Mike Solomon]

eeeexactly.  thanks!
in command-lining
dlily -dhelp
preview says it "creates preview images also".  Is "preview images" common
in the computing vernacular for this sorta thing?  If so, no prob.  If not,
I can work on a more informative help string.

Cheers,
Mike


On 8/28/10 12:10 AM, "Patrick McCarty" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mike Solomon <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>    I'm trying to create pngs of a small example (say \relative c' { a b c
>> d} ).  Is there a way for lilypond to make a png that is cropped to a
>> bounding box so that there's no extra space around the typeset area?  I've
>> been playing with using different page sizes to accomplish this & with using
>> lilypond-book to generate eps files, but I'm guessing that there may be an
>> easier way...
> 
> Have you tried
> 
>   lilypond -dpreview file.ly
> 
> ?
> 
> Does that accomplish what you need?
> 
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>