GRAPHVIZ

Section: Environments, Tables, and Troff Macros (7)
Updated: November 19, 2006
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NAME

graphviz - rich set of graph drawing tools

 

SYNOPSIS

This manpage has been written to fulfil the need of a centralized documentation presenting all available tools in the graphviz package.

 

AVAILABLE TOOLS

 

Graph layout programs

dot
filter for hierarchical layouts of graphs
neato
filter for symmetric layouts of graphs
twopi
filter for radial layouts of graphs
circo
filter for circular layout of graphs
fdp
filter for symmetric layouts of graphs

All of the filters work with either directed or undirected graphs, though dot is typically used for directed graphs and neato for undirected graphs. Note also that neato -n[2] can be used to render layouts produced by the other filters.  

Graph drawing programs

lefty
A Programmable Graphics Editor
lneato
lefty + neato
dotty
lefty + dot

 

Graph layout enhancement

gvcolor
flow colors through a ranked digraph
unflatten
adjust directed graphs to improve layout aspect ratio
gvpack
merge and pack disjoint graphs

 

Graph information and transformation

gc
count graph components
acyclic
make directed graph acyclic
nop
pretty-print graph file
ccomps
connected components filter for graphs
sccmap
extract strongly connected components of directed graphs
tred
transitive reduction filter for directed graphs
dijkstra
single-source distance filter
bcomps
biconnected components filter for graphs
gvpr
graph pattern scanning and processing language
prune
prune directed graphs

 

Other

gxl2dot, dot2gxl
GXL-DOT converters

 

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> in november 2006, based on an initial documentation effort by Joachim Berdal Haga <jbh@lupus.ig3.net>. It can be distributed under the same terms as the graphviz package.