Documentation

Documentation

On-line Reference Pages
User's Guides NOTE:The first two documents are not current with the features and details of Graphviz. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use Graphviz, but the most up-to-date documentation is provided in the on-line pages listed above.
Manual pages
- Layout Commands
  - circo
  - dot
  - fdp
  - neato
  - osage
  - sfdp
  - twopi
- Tools
  - acyclic
  - bcomps
  - ccomps
  - diffimg
  - dijkstra
  - dotty
  - gc
  - gml2gv
  - gxl2gv
  - gv2gxl
  - gvcolor
  - gvgen
  - gvpack
  - gvpr
  - lefty
  - lneato
  - mm2gv
  - nop
  - sccmap
  - smyrna
  - tred
  - unflatten
  - vimdot
- C Libraries
  - cdt
  - cgraph
  - graph
  - gvc
  - pack
  - pathplan
  - xdot
- Tcl/Tk Libraries
- Scripting APIs
  - gv.3guile
  - gv.3java
  - gv.3perl
  - gv.3python
  - gv.3ruby
  - gv.3tcl

Papers
- Graphviz and Dynagraph - Static and Dynamic Graph Drawing Tools - a condensed overview (cite)
- An open graph visualization system and its applications to software engineering - longer overview, preferred for citation (cite)
- Graph Drawing by Stress Majorization - an improved algorithm for neato (cite)
- Topological Fisheye Views for Visualizing Large Graphs - topological-based distorted views for large graphs
- A method for drawing directed graphs - dot's algorithm (1993) (cite)
- Improved Circular Layouts - crossing reduction and edge bundling for circular layouts (cite)
- Efficient and High Quality Force-Directed Graph Drawing - the multiscale algorithm used in sfdp (cite)
- Implementing a General-Purpose Edge Router - edge routing in Graphviz (cite)
- Improved Force-Directed Layouts - Voronoi-based node overlap removal (cite)
- GMap: Visualizing graphs and clusters as maps - displaying graphs as maps (cite)
- Efficient Node Overlap Removal Using a Proximity Stress Model - Prism node overlap removal (cite)
- On-line Hierarchical Graph Drawing - dynadag algorithm
Source Documetation
- Doxygen generated documentation of Graphviz, with dot generated diagrams
ToDo List
- Graphviz ToDo List

Recent comments

eliminate
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Dijkstra Tool
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Ok on Lion
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Dijkstra Tool
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Missing headers
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build does not find pangocairo?
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test
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Dijkstra Tool with directed
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mclimit and maxiter don't help :-(
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does dot layout optimization
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