hello! is there any way to have an image of a layout in magic without background or with a white background?

plot pnm

will produce a very nice plot (code written by @Rajit Manohar a long time ago); the syntax is

plot pnm _filename_

width

with

width

in pixels, and

filename

without the ".pnm" extension (e.g.,

plot pnm my_layout 1000

produces file

my_layout.pnm

). Since the PNM format is uncompressed and huge, use

convert

(from ImageMagick) to convert it to a PNG file. This works best for large layouts.