Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Johan Vromans <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'd advise to generate postscript, and then convert the postscript to
> png (with transparancy!) using
>
>  gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pngalpha \
>        -sOutputFile=score-page%1.png -r101 score.ps
>
> (For the best compatibility, run lilypond with --verbose and copy the
> 'Converting to PNG' command, substituting pngalpha for png16m.)
>
> Maybe LilyPond could add pngalpha as a generation target?

Is there a reason to not always use pngalpha ?

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