debian man page for springgraph

SPRINGGRAPH(1)						      General Commands Manual						    SPRINGGRAPH(1)

NAME
       springgraph - renders a graph from a .dot file

SYNOPSIS
       springgraph [OPTIONS] < input-file.dot > output-file.png

DESCRIPTION
       Springgraph will read in a .dot file description of a graph, which, for each node, specifies its name and which other nodes it is connected
       to, and then renders a graph. The output is a PNG file. Each node is drawn as an ellipse, and each connection is drawn  as  an  arrow.  The
       node  placement	is  a  result of all of the nodes moving away from each other, while all nodes which are connected move toward each other.
       This movement is repeated until it stabilizes.

       Springgraph was written as an alternative to neato, which is part of graphviz. It attempts to read the same .dot files  used  by  graphviz,
       but  currently  only  supports  a limited number of node attributes (label and fillcolor) and can only handle two nodes per edge definition
       ("node1 -> node2", not "node1 -> node2 -> node3").

OPTIONS
       springgraph accepts the following options:

       -p	       Create a file that can be rendered with POV-Ray

       -v	       create a VRML file

       -s	       this option specifies the scale. All of the node locations are multiplied by this. Increase the	scale  to  eliminate  node
		       overlaps. Decrease the scale to make the graph smaller.

       -t	       make the background of the resulting image transparent.

       -b	       set  background color of image, specify it in the form RRGGBB, in hex digits, e.g. FFFFFF is white, 000000 is black, FF0000
		       is red, ...

       -l	       set the line color, same format as the background color

       -h	       display usage synopsis

EXAMPLE
	digraph {
	 "rene" -> "myon";
	 "mvo" -> "rene";
	}

SEE ALSO
       neato(1) sig2dot(1) http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation.php http://www.graphviz.org/cvs/doc/info/lang.html

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Kevin M. Rosenberg <kmr@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								 September 5, 2005						    SPRINGGRAPH(1)