NAME

graphviz - rich set of graph drawing tools

SYNOPSIS

This manpage has been written to fulfil the need of a centralized documentation presenting all available tools in the graphviz package.

AVAILABLE TOOLS

Graph layout programs

dot: filter for hierarchical layouts of graphs
neato: filter for symmetric layouts of graphs
twopi: filter for radial layouts of graphs
circo: filter for circular layout of graphs
fdp: filter for symmetric layouts of graphs

All of the filters work with either directed or undirected graphs, though dot is typically used for directed graphs and neato for undirected graphs. Note also that neato -n[2] can be used to render layouts produced by the other filters.

Graph drawing programs

lefty

A Programmable Graphics Editor

lneato

lefty + neato

dotty

lefty + dot

Graph layout enhancement

gvcolor: flow colors through a ranked digraph
unflatten: adjust directed graphs to improve layout aspect ratio
gvpack: merge and pack disjoint graphs

Graph information and transformation

gc: count graph components
acyclic: make directed graph acyclic
nop: pretty-print graph file
ccomps: connected components filter for graphs
sccmap: extract strongly connected components of directed graphs
tred: transitive reduction filter for directed graphs
dijkstra: single-source distance filter
bcomps: biconnected components filter for graphs
gvpr: graph pattern scanning and processing language
prune: prune directed graphs

Other

gxl2dot, dot2gxl: GXL-DOT converters

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> in november 2006, based on an initial documentation effort by Joachim Berdal Haga <jbh@lupus.ig3.net>. It can be distributed under the same terms as the graphviz package.