On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 12:58 -0800, Jeff Hammerbacher wrote: > Hey Alistair, > > For static image generation, I've used pygraphviz > (http://networkx.lanl.gov/pygraphviz/), a Python interface to AT&T's > graphviz library.
pydot is another Python library for working with Graphviz. Whichever one you might prefer (and I found them to be fairly similar, although I've probably used pydot a little more just because an old client used it), it's certainly a good approach for things like flowchart processes, since they are pretty easily expressible as graphs. Somebody else in the thread mentioned SVG, which is also a possibility. You'll have more control over the fine details of the results, at the cost of having to do more work to actually produce things. SVG being a low-level drawing API, Graphviz's dot language being a higher-level API for specifying graph-like structures. Probably the nicest svg bindings these days are the rsvg ones (Python bindings for the C-library librsvg). They use cairo as the output library, which gives very nice results. If it was me, I'd start by looking at the graphviz approach, since it fits the problem description most naturally. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
