Hello,
On 06/01/2021 20:29, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 06 Jan 2021 at 11:34:24 (-0500), Trevor Bača wrote:
What I want Lily to do: remove whitespace from the *edges* of an SVG.
As I said, you run LP as normal, and then trim to taste. So, taking
your example, I ran it with
$ lilypond-2.21.80-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond --svg -dno-point-and-click Bača.ly
and then edited the first line of Bača.svg, resulting in Bača-trimmed.svg.
The end of the first line is modified from
width="210.00mm" height="297.00mm" viewBox="0 0 119.5016 169.0094">
to
width="192.00mm" height="297.00mm" viewBox="4.5 0 109.5016 169.0094">
which I did by inspection. As you use SVG files in your workflow,
I assume you can carry this out more easily and precisely¹ with some
particular tool. (I'm PDF-centric myself.) I only considered X because
I was inspecting the file on a landscape screen (and you didn't remove
the tagline anyway).
In term of particular tool, I personnaly use Inkscape for this task.
This is probably far from optimal but it works nicely. For Inkscape <
1.0, the following:
inkscape --without-gui --export-area-drawing
--export-plain-svg=output.cropped.svg input.svg
For Inkscape >= 1.0, the following:
inkscape --export-area-drawing --export-plain-svg
--export-filename=output.cropped.svg input.svg
or in short:
inkscape -Dlo output.cropped.svg input.svg
I suppose there might be faster lighter tools for that and I would love
to hear from them.
Best,
— Niols
