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List:       graphviz-interest
Subject:    Re: [graphviz-interest] (newbie) drawing shapes within shapes
From:       "Emden R. Gansner" <erg () research ! att ! com>
Date:       2007-08-14 18:34:42
Message-ID: 46C1F5C2.7070002 () research ! att ! com
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ali azimi wrote:
>  
> Thank you very much for your advice. I was wondering, is there any way 
> to combine the ability of neato to draw sdl shapes and postscript 
> ability to draw enclosed shapes to be able to draw sdl diagrams? I 
> know this sound so naive but I do not have great knowledge in drawing 
> at all. Could you please advise me? The only problem I have is that 
> neato is not able to draw enclosed shapes, like a square in a box or 
> is not able to draw a line inside a box. But postscript is able to.
>  
The graphviz tools provide ways to layout abstract graphs as well as 
providing some rendering engines, including
output as postscript. Postscript is a general-purpose drawing language. 
You can certainly take the postscript
output produced by neato and add anything you want. Or you might try 
doing your layouts with dot or fdp, which
supports clusters. This would give you a box around an sdl shape. You 
could then postprocess this output
and add the line segments inside the box. This can then be passed to 
neato -n2 -Tps to get your final picture.

    Emden
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