Re: Produce just a small png file

[Patrick McCarty]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Bernardo Barros
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> How to make lilypond produce just a compact png file, with the size
> just to fit the music, without a complete page layouts. And not
> compiling ps/pdf, but just .png?

Run this command:

lilypond -dpreview file.ly

If you are using 2.13 (I can't remember which version this was added),
you can get compact SVG files too:

lilypond -dpreview -dbackend=svg file.ly


-Patrick