Documentation

On-line reference pages

• The DOT Language
• Command-line Usage
• Output Formats
• Node, Edge and Graph Attributes
• Node Shapes
• Arrow Shapes
• Colors

User’s Guides

NOTE: The first two documents are not current with the features and details of Graphviz. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use Graphviz, but the most up-to-date documentation is provided in the on-line pages listed above.

• dot
• neato
• lefty
• dotty
• Cgraph library tutorial
• Using Graphviz as a library
• Using Graphviz as a library (pre-2.30 version)
• Adding a new layout

Sample Programs using Graphviz

• demo.c
• dot.c
• example.c
• simple.c
• Makefile

Layout manual pages

• circo
• dot
• fdp
• neato
• osage
• patchwork
• sfdp
• twopi

Tool manual pages

• acyclic
• bcomps
• cluster
• ccomps
• diffimg
• dijkstra
• dotty
• edgepaint
• gc
• gml2gv
• graphml2gv
• gv2gxl
• gvcolor
• gvedit
• gvgen
• gvmap
• gvpack
• gvpr
• gxl2gv
• lefty
• lneato
• mingle
• mm2gv
• nop
• sccmap
• smyrna
• tred
• unflatten
• vimdot

C libraries

• cdt
• cgraph
• gvc
• pack
• pathplan
• xdot

Tcl/tk libraries

• gdtclft.3tcl
• tcldot.3tcl
• tkspline.3tk

Scripting APIs

• gv.3guile
• gv.3java
• gv.3perl
• gv.3php
• gv.3python
• gv.3ruby
• gv.3tcl