Re: PNG output with Lilypond?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> We have seen this question often now, isn't it time to add a flag to ly2dvi
> (or add a new script ly2fig) to produce a .png or whatever graphics format?
> Of course, it should not include any page header or footer but it's not 
> clear
> to me if it should include other header information.
> 
> As others have explained, the current workaround is to make a dummy
> (in case you're target document isn't done with texi, latex or html)
> document, run lilypond-book and use the lily-xxxxxx.png or .eps files.

That's possible, but going from PS to PNG is a generic operation,
perhaps it's enough to mention the command the documentation? It's
something like

  gs -sDEVICE=png -sOutputFile="foo-%d.png" foo.ps

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