RE: png output with transparency and the option to have the renderingcropped to the score

[James Lowe]

Hello
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From: address@hidden address@hidden on behalf of Phil Holmes address@hidden
Sent: 31 July 2011 10:40
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: png output with transparency and the option to have the    
renderingcropped to the score

"Bart Deruyter" <address@hidden> wrote in message
news:address@hidden
> 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


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Added by me in Documentation for Usage in 2.15.x tree.

Doc: Usage added command for transparent pngs

author  James Lowe <address@hidden>     
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:03:48 +0000 (23:03 +0100)
committer       James Lowe <address@hidden>     
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:03:49 +0000 (23:03 +0100)
commit  eed7b5f33c8e40860924c414b0feae8e0393f39d


James