From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 17:17:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BD0106567B for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F238FC20 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:17:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [213.51.146.190] (port=54838 helo=smtp1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KfHhR-0005f7-IX; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:17:21 +0200 Received: from cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl ([84.25.65.88]:10746 helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KfHhQ-0000jW-Dv; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:17:21 +0200 Received: from [192.168.13.81] (iPod.egypt.nl [192.168.13.81]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96873989E; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:17:19 +0200 (CEST) References: <89ce7f740809150801o37176df9oa7be4cc8f4d50a95@mail.gmail.com> <0A89B579-2549-4A12-9514-1597B61BCC07@identry.com> Message-Id: From: Peter Boosten To: John Almberg In-Reply-To: <0A89B579-2549-4A12-9514-1597B61BCC07@identry.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: iPod Mail (5F137) Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPod Mail 5F137) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:17:17 +0200 X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) Cc: Ivan Rambius Ivanov , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Port for drawing directed graphs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:17:28 -0000 On 15 sep 2008, at 18:06, John Almberg wrote: > On Sep 15, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:31 AM, John Almberg >> wrote: >>> I am working on some software that must, as it's final output, >>> produce a >>> printout of a directed graph... nodes, connected by directed links. >>> >>> The printout could be generated by a postscript file, jpg, whatever. >>> >>> Does anyone know of a utility (in ports?) that can take a data set >>> (for >>> example, a two dimensional array that defines the nodes and the >>> links >>> between them), and produce a printable graph? >> I am using graphics/graphviz, http://www.graphviz.org/, for graphs >> drawing. It uses an input .dot file containing the graph description >> and produces a image (.jpg or .ps) with the visual representation of >> the graph. I used to generate those .dot files from the data in my >> programs and process them with graphviz. I am not sure that may be it >> even exports API to be directly called. >> > > Oooo, nice... graphviz looks very promising! > > Thanks: John > > Gnuplot? Peter