Re: [Doxygen-users] Generating dot graphs in SVG

[Gennaro P. <gen...@ya...>]

On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:55:47 +0200, Clemens Feige wrote:

>> Hi,
>> is there any reason why the allowed values for DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT are
>> gif, jpg and png only? In particular I'd like to generate the diagrams
>> in SVG format.
>>
>> Gennaro Prota 
>
>Hi Gennaro.
>
>As far as I know DOT can also create SVG. I'd be interessted to know 
>what happens if you say "svg" in the doxygen config file.

Hi Clemens,

yes, that's what I knew too about DOT. Saying "svg" in the Doxygen
config file --which, in an excess of hope, I had tried before posting
:-)-- simply yields an

  Invalid value for DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT: `svg'. Using the default.

complain (this was on Cygwin, with Doxygen 1.5.1, in case that
matters).

>If it does not work and you do not want to touch Doxygen, it may help 
>to say "DOT_CLEANUP = NO". This will keep the .dot files. Then you 
>need to convert them manually - with target SVG ofcourse. At last you 
>need to modify all HTML files to replace those PNG, JPG, or GIF 
>picture references with SVG references. You change only the file 
>extension, not the filename.

Aha, thanks! :-) This hadn't occurred to me. As soon as I'll have some
time I'll try your idea. Since I already do some post-processing on
the pages this fits very well in the existing scaffolding. Thanks
again for your suggestion! (Touching Doxygen is perhaps even simpler,
but of course has the non-negligible drawback of having to maintain
"my own" version and force users of my library to use that one)

-- 
Gennaro Prota -- C++ Developer, For Hire
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