On Wed, 03 Oct 2001, Steven Pothier wrote: > The graphviz package, "dot" program does graph layout from a graph > description given in a simple text format. > It outputs a couple formats (not XML though). Has anyone written > anything to transform the formats used by DIA and graphviz? > > There is an obvious benefit to being able generated a graph in DIA > format from a (layout free) textual format. > > If I find nothing here, I'll likely write a perl script to fullfill > something like: > > dot -Tplain mygraph.dot | dotplain2dia.pl > mygraph.dia
Ah, yes, dot. A wonderful little graph tool. No, there is no transformation from dot files to dia files, nor does Dia read dot output. I'd love to see either. > P.S. > graphviz is described at: http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz > > P.S.S. I fantasize that I have a tools that completely integrates DIA > and graphviz so that I can do automatic layout, transformations, > filtering AND easy manual editing with the same tool. That would be sweet indeed. Take a look at plug-ins/xfig/xfig-import.c if you want to do it as an import filter. Otherwise, look at any of the .dia-generating tools listed in the Links section of the Dia page. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
