NAME
springgraph - renders a graph from a .dot file
SYNOPSIS
springgraph [OPTIONS] < input-file.dot > output-file.png
DESCRIPTION
Springgraph will read in a .dot file description of a graph, which, for
each node, specifies its name and which other nodes it is connected to,
and then renders a graph. The output is a PNG file. Each node is drawn
as an ellipse, and each connection is drawn as an arrow. The node
placement is a result of all of the nodes moving away from each other,
while all nodes which are connected move toward each other. This
movement is repeated until it stabilizes.
Springgraph was written as an alternative to neato, which is part of
graphviz. It attempts to read the same .dot files used by graphviz, but
currently only supports a limited number of node attributes (label and
fillcolor) and can only handle two nodes per edge definition ("node1 ->
node2", not "node1 -> node2 -> node3").
OPTIONS
springgraph accepts the following options:
-p Create a file that can be rendered with POV-Ray
-v create a VRML file
-s this option specifies the scale. All of the node
locations are multiplied by this. Increase the scale to
eliminate node overlaps. Decrease the scale to make the
graph smaller.
-t make the background of the resulting image transparent.
-b set background color of image, specify it in the form
RRGGBB, in hex digits, e.g. FFFFFF is white, 000000 is
black, FF0000 is red, ...
-l set the line color, same format as the background color
-h display usage synopsis
EXAMPLE
digraph {
"rene" -> "myon";
"mvo" -> "rene";
}
SEE ALSO
neato(1) sig2dot(1) http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation.php
http://www.graphviz.org/cvs/doc/info/lang.html
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Kevin M. Rosenberg <kmr@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
September 5, 2005