Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 18, 2005 12:39 AM
Re Antialiasing: The graphviz toolkit in general and dot in particular use graphical rendering libraries to generate their output. For example, several output formats including "png" and a few others use the <a href="http://www.boutell.com/gd/" title="boutell.com">GD graphics library</a boutell.com>. Since those underlying libraries provide the rendering services, that's where one would look for antialiasing. It may be that choosing a particular output format uses a library that has intrinsic antialiasing capability.
Re GUI: There are better tools for making diagrams such as kivio, Open/Star-Office draw, and several others whose names escape me at the moment. Dot was designed to generate graphs given input from some other tool. My current favorite example is <a href="http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/" title="stack.nl">the Doxygen code document helper/generator</a stack.nl>. So, while the article discusses using dot to generate graphs from our own input, its real value is in providing graph rendering services for other tools.
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Antialiasing & GUI?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 18, 2005 12:39 AMRe GUI: There are better tools for making diagrams such as kivio, Open/Star-Office draw, and several others whose names escape me at the moment. Dot was designed to generate graphs given input from some other tool. My current favorite example is <a href="http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/" title="stack.nl">the Doxygen code document helper/generator</a stack.nl>. So, while the article discusses using dot to generate graphs from our own input, its real value is in providing graph rendering services for other tools.
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