Thanks, Phil. I'll give that a try.

 

From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m...@philholmes.net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:04
To: Chris Crossen; lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pngtopnm missing?

 

I'm sorry I still can't answer your exact question, but I can give some
pointers.  pngtopnm is a standard image file format converter on unix boxes,
and so I guess Lily assumes it's there for some of its operations, and it
isn't on Windows.  Hence the error message.  

 

In my experiments, using --png with -dresolution=nnn gives exactly the same
output as -dresolution=nnn/3 -danti-alias-factor=3 - so it appears not worth
using the anti alias factor at all.  Accepting that you will never get an
image file as good looking as PDF, since PDF scales, then something like
lilypond --png -dresolution=900 should give you a better image than you
need.



Phil Holmes

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Chris Crossen <mailto:ch...@crossen.net>  

To: 'Phil Holmes' <mailto:m...@philholmes.net>  ; lilypond-user@gnu.org 

Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:54 PM

Subject: RE: pngtopnm missing?

 

That's what I tried first. It works, but the .PNG files don't look anywhere
near as good as the PDFs. I was trying to get a good-looking .PNG file with
the -danti-alias-factor=2 parameter.

 

From: Phil Holmes [mailto:m...@philholmes.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 0:46
To: Chris Crossen; lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pngtopnm missing?

 

I don't know why this happens, but you can cure it simply by replacing all
the other options you're using with -fpng:

 

lilypond -fpng test.ly


--
Phil Holmes

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Chris Crossen <mailto:ch...@crossen.net>  

To: lilypond-user@gnu.org 

Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 4:30 AM

Subject: pngtopnm missing?

 

I am trying to create a .png file from a LilyPond score. I am running
Windows XP. I'm getting an error about pngtopnm. 

 

Is it part of LilyPond?  Should I have it as part of the install?

 

Below is my run output.

 

Thank you,

Chris Crossen

 

C:\ScoreWork\data>lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts
-dinclude-eps-fonts -dresolution=96 -danti-alias-factor=2 --png test.ly

GNU LilyPond 2.14.2

Processing `test.ly'

Parsing...

Interpreting music... [8]

Preprocessing graphical objects...

Finding the ideal number of pages...

Fitting music on 1 page...

Drawing systems...

Layout output to `test.eps'...

Converting to PNG...'pngtopnm' is not recognized as an internal or external
command,

operable program or batch file.

GS exited with status: 255   


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