[rt-users] Graphviz anti-aliased output?

Aaron Hathaway aaron.hathaway at prager.com
Mon Aug 25 00:56:07 EDT 2008


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> Message: 2 Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:54:30 +1000 From: 
> trentbuck at gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) Subject: Re: [rt-users] Graphviz 
> anti-aliased output? To: rt-users at lists.fsck.com Message-ID: 
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> charset=us-ascii "Aaron Hathaway" <aaron.hathaway at prager.com> writes:
>> > I know the latest version of Graphviz can output lovely anti-aliased
>> > graphs.  Is there an easy way to get RT to anti-alias its Graphviz
>> > output?
>>     
>
> (Note: I have yet to look at RT's graphviz integration.)
>
> Perhaps an easy way would be to tell RT to use dot -Tsvg instead of
> -Tpng?  Then the web pages would include SVG and be rendered client-side
> (and thus be antialiased in Firefox, at least).
>
> OTOH, this seems to be antialiased already (with graphviz 2.20):
>
>     echo 'digraph { x -> y; }' | dot -Tpng | with-temp-file display
>
> so perhaps you just need to upgrade your Graphviz?
I'm also running 2.2, and by default, it does output with 
anti-aliasing.  But RT's implementation doesn't. 

I think this has to do with the perl module GraphViz, which handles 
integration with graphviz.  I'm not sure the module can take advantage 
of anti-aliasing--but I don't know.

--Aaron
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