Hi everybody...

I'm a little stuck so I'm asking other developers what they're using to create
an abc front end to their software...

I'm creating a sight-reading program. Using abcm2ps I'm able to create a SVG or
a postscript file fairly easily. This renders really well - having the abcm2ps
library in a application folder is great. My application installation would
simply copy it to the right folder and it's ready to go!

The only roadblock is the svg to png

Ghostscript is full of bloat and needs tweaking to get it work.
Also it has to be installed.
Imagemagic is pretty much out of the question as it actually needs ghostscript
installed to work for svg or ps conversion.
librsvgconvert is full of bugs and doesn't do a good job. I, on a windows
computer have not been able to make it output a png bigger than 0 bytes (it
keeps asking for a dll which seems to be nowhere in the download package.
Batik is java based and although I haven't checked it out as thoroughly, it
requires the user to install yet another thing.

Using a web-viewer is an option - but it's a horrible work around when a png
option would be much better.

Has anybody got any information of a cross platform library that will convert
svg (or postcript (but svg is preferable)) to any kind of rasterized image like
gif, png or something?
something that doesn't need additional installation?

Maybe there is a stripped down library for ghostscript - the only part required
for the convertion process accessed via command line?
Cheers,
Sean