abcCairo
Extend abcm2ps to support direct generation of PNG, SVG and PDF files
abcCairo is a project to create a Cairo backend for abcm2ps, enabling it to generate output in the formats supported by the Cairo library; PNG, SVG and PDF.
abcm2ps is a command line program written by Jean-François Moine which
converts abc music notation to music sheet in PostScript or SVG format.
It is an extension of Michael Methfessel's abc2ps. This project takes out
the PostScript commands to generate various musical symbols and instead
replaces them with Cairo function calls that generate the same musical
symbols.
The Cairo graphics library is an open-source graphics library
offering a similar 2D graphics model to PostScript. The Cairo
library can write to a GTK canvas, allowing integration with programs
using the GTK+ toolkit, or it can write to an image file in a choice of
formats: PNG, SVG or PDF.
This means that other programs can have access to the abcm2ps
music-rendering capability without having to incorporate a
PostScript interpreter.