[rt-users] Graphviz anti-aliased output?

[Ruslan Zakirov]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Aaron Hathaway
<aaron.hathaway at prager.com> wrote:
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> From: trentbuck at gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Graphviz anti-aliased output?
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> "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.
This module generates a graph in dot format. May be we use some
properties that disable anti-aliasing. I did some googling, but havn't
found anything interesting.

>
> --Aaron
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Best regards, Ruslan.