Re: Creating pngs bounded to example size

[Patrick McCarty]

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