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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by indentit on Monday January 17, 2022 @11:16AM (#29968078)
I've never been that happy with the output from any of the different graphviz engines. I'd like to see a UI graph editing tool which can import and export .dot format, but also allows manually moving nodes (which I guess wouldn't get exported unless arbitrary metadata is supported), and ofc exports to svg. Maybe there's already something similar I haven't stumbled across yet?

I guess my use case is mainly swimlanes and places where nodes don't have to have the same rank.

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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by nyellin on Monday January 17, 2022 @11:20AM (#29968125)
Totally agree with this. I always want to start with graphviz but then modify the output afterwards to fix the layout
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by taeric on Monday January 17, 2022 @11:59AM (#29968601)
I mentioned this in another thread. You can have the output be a dot file. Which you can then edit and send back with a flag to not redo the layout.
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by nyellin on Monday January 17, 2022 @12:12PM (#29968771)
That's a wonderful tip, thank you!
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by taeric on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:26PM (#29969843)
Hope it helps! There used to be a program called dotty, looks like it was basically abandoned, though. :(
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by bakul on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:46AM (#29979891)
it’s there in the graphviz github repo.
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by taeric on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:28PM (#29986995)
But it is only x11, right? Not sure how well it is supported on the platforms you can run it on. And I don't have x on my work computer.
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by bakul on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:35AM (#30007117)
That is a different point than "basically abandoned" :-) I do use X11 programs on Unix and MacOS (so far XQuartz works well enough). And probably Microsoft Windows though I don't use it.
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by taeric on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:42AM (#30011252)
Fair.

My feeling is likely impacted as much from the fact that I've never met anyone that used it.

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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by bakul on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:40PM (#30012038)
Seems more like the users abandoned it! I used it about 8-10 years ago but only briefly.
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by steveroush on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:15PM (#29969622)
Look at the group attribute, it can help with vertical (off-rank) alignment
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