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dot now uses the spline router library, and has code
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that can convert arbitrary (non-monotonic) simply
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connected box paths into spline constraint polygons,
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but this code only runs when drawing self-edges because
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only self-edges on record nodes are known to give rise
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to non-monotonic spline box paths.
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Notes on 1.7.6 "graphtool release"
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Added gpr and other stream graph tools.
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More minor reworking of cluster sizes and separations.
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Notes on 1.7 "bugfix it!"
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nmakefiles work again.
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Compound edges, courtesy Emden Gansner.
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Moved webdot into its own package
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Notes on 1.6 a.k.a. "autoconf it!"
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Replaced old makefiles with GNU autoconf/automake/libtool generated Makefiles
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Configure now tests for existing libttf.so and libgd.so (e.g. on RedHat-6.0)
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(The nmakefiles are still around, but probably don't work at the moment.)
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Merged dot and neato into a single executable which acts like dot if the
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graph is directed, or like neato if undirected. Also tcldot, webdot, doted.
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Added first cut at SVG generator (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/)
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that can be used with "gill" as a viewer (http://www.levien.com/svg/)
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Added first cut at FIG generator for xfig
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Added dynamic graph code: Tcldgr, Tcldgl, dge
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Notes on 1.5 a.k.a. "opensourcify it!"
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Updated source file comment headers; bug fixes in Lefty scripts.
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Notes on 1.4 a.k.a. "the final beta":
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New stuff includes bug fixes (what else), the untested imap driver,
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the slightly tested drivers for VRML and VTX (Confluent Visual Thought),
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cleaned up webdot demo.
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Of particular note, we improved neato's layouts using new algorithms
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to prevent node-node and node-edge overlaps. This feature is enabled
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by running neato -Gsplines=true -Goverlap=false
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To use the GIF generator with Unix, you need to install TrueType fonts.
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For copyright reasons, we don't bundle any fonts with graphviz.
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You may have a licensed copy on a nearby PC in C:\Windows\Fonts,
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or you can download them e.g. from
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http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm
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The built-in default for the TrueType font lookup path in dot currently is
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/windows/fonts:/dos/windows/fonts:/usr/lib/fonts:/usr/local/lib/fonts:/usr/local/lib/fonts/ttf:/usr/add-on/share/ttf:.
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so if it's convenient, you can install the .ttf files in one of these
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directories. Otherwise, include the directory of your choice in the
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environment variable DOTFONTPATH (you have to set this in your environment
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or create a wrapper script for dot).
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At a minimum you need to install files for:
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courier.ttf helvetica.ttf times.ttf symbol.ttf
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It's up to you if you'd like to substitute e.g. New Times Roman for times.ttf,
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Arial for helvetica.ttf, etc.
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If someone can find freely available fonts and could like to build them
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in (somehow) that would be great. Many of the "free" fonts on the
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web seem to be copyrighted and forbid or at least restrict redistribution.
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It seems that if LEFTYPATH is not in the environment,
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lefty will look for scripts in the first place in the PATH
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that contains lefty, by trying ../lib/lefty/<file>.
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So as long as things are put in <root>/bin and <root>/lib/lefty,
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dotty uses whatever your SHELL variable is set to to start a process.
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If this causes problems, a simple fix would be to insert a line such as
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in the dotty script before it starts lefty
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The tcldot package is installed in <gviz_root>/lib/Tcldot. If this is not
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in your system's tcl library directory, tcl may complain that it
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can't find the package. However, you can tell tcl where to look by
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setting and exporting TCLLIBPATH, e.g., using ksh/sh,
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export TCLLIBPATH=<gviz_root>/lib
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Special thanks are due to John Ellson for the great new GIF driver
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(built with the Freetype renderer for TrueType files).
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Other major improvements were made by Vladimir Alexiev. John Mocenigo
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has released a compatible graph viewer Grappa written in Java;
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visit www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz for further information.
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Likewise, we will also have an add-on package of stream graph filters.
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a few built-in TrueType fonts
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respectable cluster layouts
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