RE: PNG file output

[jschlomann]

Jean,

I’ve found your response, and I’ve updated my list subscription to my new email.

 

My reason for wanting this is that I need to generate several types of output based on some other settings in my input file. For example, I need PDF output for print, and PNG output in a couple different resolutions for projection on a screen. This is for use in a church.

 

One thought I had was to spawn another LilyPond so that I could specify command line options based on the settings in my input file. I haven’t been able to get this to work so far, for reasons I don’t understand. I tried this using (system "lilypond -fpng file.ly"). I also tried Guile’s system*, but got an unbind error. I’m using 2.22.2.

 

Thank you for your response, and apologies for missing it initially.

John

 

From: Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2023 4:34 PM
To: jschlomann@astound.net
Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PNG file output

 

Hi,

 

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Le 25 févr. 2023 à 18:33, jschlomann@astound.net a écrit :



Is there a way to get png output using some internal setting? #(ly: set-option 'resolution 300) works fine, but only if I use the -fpng command line option. I need to set this conditionally in the .ly file. Any way to do this? Should I be looking at guile?

 

 

I'm afraid this can't be done without dirty tricks. Output formats are really tied to the command line. However, I think this might be an XY question. Could you elaborate on why you want to do this?