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actdiag

ACTDIAG(1)						      General Commands Manual							ACTDIAG(1)

NAME

       actdiag - generate activity-diagram image file from spec-text file.

SYNOPSIS

       actdiag [options] files

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the actdiag commands.

       actdiag is a program that generate activity-diagram image file from spec-text file.

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is
       included below.	For a complete description, see the Info files.

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -a, --antialias
	      Pass diagram image to anti-alias filter

       -c FILE, --config=FILE
	      read configurations from FILE

       -o FILE
	      write diagram to FILE

       -f FONT, --font=FONT
	      use FONT to draw diagram

       -s, ----separate
	      Separate diagram images for each group (SVG only)

       -T TYPE
	      Output diagram as TYPE format

SEE ALSO

       The programs are documented fully by
       http://tk0miya.bitbucket.org/actdiag/build/html/index.html

AUTHOR

       actdiag was written by Takeshi Komiya <i.tkomiya@gmail.com>

       This manual page was written by Kouhei Maeda <mkouhei@palmtb.net>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

								   June  5, 2011							ACTDIAG(1)