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> look like troff from 1985 This is a feature, not a bug. The rest would be nice to have, though.

• mumblemumble 6y ago
  I was thinking something similar. The default styles don't look super shiny, I suppose, but they are clean, which I appreciate. All in all, I think it does a good job of supporting my main reason for choosing graphviz over something like Visio: It encourages me to get the illustration done and then get on with my day without getting caught up with trying to make everything perfect. I will turn to Visio if I need to make something presentation-quality, so there's that. I have similar feelings about the lack of ability to fine-tune the layout: I've started seeing it as a feature, because it gives me a great feedback mechanism: If the graph is too complicated for Graphviz to lay out nicely, I take that as a sign that the thing the graph represents needs to be simplified. I've even gone so far as to incorporate Graphviz into my definition of done for a refactoring project: I kept a dotfile representing the current state of the dependency graph, and stopped refactoring when the rendered graph stopped making my eyes water.