Hi David, I'll look into GraphicsMagick.
Thanks! -- Josh On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:22 AM, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 22 Jun 2018 at 13:15:36 (-0400), Joshua Nichols wrote: > > I think you miss it because the functionality is within Frescobaldi > itself. > > It's run in the preview, and it allows me to customize aliasing, > > resolution, etc, and it captures to png, as Ben pointed out. > > > > Any form of screen capture would be insufficient. > > Yes, I see what you're doing now. The "scrot" method is what I would > use to produce the image that Ben posted, whereas you are lacking the > functionality illustrated within that image: ie capture of the blue > rectangle. > > > Frescobaldi also allows you to automatically crop the image to the > > boundaries of the music, which is primarily why I use it. > > Would this imply that you normally capture the entire music, surrounded > by white margins? Is it unsuitable to run LP so that it produces a > PNG file (rather than PDF) with --png -dresolution=1200 > (or whatever value is appropriate)? > > Programs like GraphicsMagick can crop a PNG image; GM's terminology > for cropping in this manner is "trim", ie "removes any edges that are > exactly the same color as the corner pixels." > > Aside: I don't know what your workflow is, but with PNG files (which > are rasters) you have to worry about resolution, whereas with a PDF > file workflow, the images are vectors and remain sharp regardless of > the magnification. There are programs like pdfcrop that crop/trim > PDFs in the same manner. > > Cheers, > David. >
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