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LilyPond 2.24 command-line usage: PNG and SVG output, resolution, backends and cropping options
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What this guide covers
A reference note for people who engrave music scores with LilyPond and need images of them. It lists what the 2.24 usage page says about output formats, PNG size and resolution, the SVG backend and cropped previews. It is read from the documentation only; nothing was installed or run.
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LilyPond 2.24 command-line usage: PNG and SVG output, resolution, backends and cropping options
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A reference note for people who engrave music scores with LilyPond and need images of them. It lists what the 2.24 usage page says about output formats, PNG size and resolution, the SVG backend and cropped previews. It is read from the documentation only; nothing was installed or run.
Useful starting points
- SVG output cannot be made in the same run as other formats, and the SVG files do not embed text fonts, so a viewer needs the fonts installed.
- The cropping option is documented as poorly suited to multi-system scores because it removes the space between systems.
- Ghostscript up to 9.52 can produce empty PNGs when a requested height is larger than the width.
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