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I've never been that happy with the output from any of the different graphviz engines. I'd like to see a UI graph editing tool which can import and export .dot

I've never been that happy with the output from any of the different graphviz engines. I'd like to see a UI graph editing tool which can import and export .dot format, but also allows manually moving nodes (which I guess wouldn't get exported unless arbitrary metadata is supported), and ofc exports to svg. Maybe there's already something similar I haven't stumbled across yet? I guess my use case is mainly swimlanes and places where nodes don't have to have the same rank.

nyellin 5y ago
Totally agree with this. I always want to start with graphviz but then modify the output afterwards to fix the layout
- taeric 5y ago
  I mentioned this in another thread. You can have the output be a dot file. Which you can then edit and send back with a flag to not redo the layout.
  - nyellin 5y ago
    That's a wonderful tip, thank you!
    - taeric 5y ago
      Hope it helps! There used to be a program called dotty, looks like it was basically abandoned, though. :(
      - bakul 5y ago
        it’s there in the graphviz github repo.
        taeric 5y ago
        But it is only x11, right? Not sure how well it is supported on the platforms you can run it on. And I don't have x on my work computer.
        bakul 5y ago
        That is a different point than "basically abandoned" :-) I do use X11 programs on Unix and MacOS (so far XQuartz works well enough). And probably Microsoft Windows though I don't use it.
        taeric 5y ago
        Fair. My feeling is likely impacted as much from the fact that I've never met anyone that used it.
        bakul 5y ago
        Seems more like the users abandoned it! I used it about 8-10 years ago but only briefly.
steveroush 5y ago
Look at the group attribute, it can help with vertical (off-rank) alignment