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gvcolor — Colorize a ranked digraph with a range of colors. Graphviz filters: `acyclic`, `bcomps`, `comps`, `e

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Problem

How to use the gvcolor command: Colorize a ranked digraph with a range of colors. Graphviz filters: acyclic, bcomps, comps, edgepaint, gvcolor, gvpack, mingle, nop, sccmap, tred, and unflatten. More information: <https://graphviz.org/pdf/gvcolor.1.pdf>.

Solution

gvcolor — Colorize a ranked digraph with a range of colors. Graphviz filters: acyclic, bcomps, comps, edgepaint, gvcolor, gvpack, mingle, nop, sccmap, tred, and unflatten. More information: <https://graphviz.org/pdf/gvcolor.1.pdf>.

Colorize one or more ranked digraph (that were already processed by dot):

gvcolor {{path/to/layout1.gv path/to/layout2.gv ...}} > {{path/to/output.gv}}

Lay out a graph and colorize it, then convert to a PNG image:

dot {{path/to/input.gv}} | gvcolor | dot -T {{png}} > {{path/to/output.png}}

Display help:

gvcolor -?

Code Snippets

Colorize one or more ranked digraph (that were already processed by `dot`)

gvcolor {{path/to/layout1.gv path/to/layout2.gv ...}} > {{path/to/output.gv}}

Lay out a graph and colorize it, then convert to a PNG image

dot {{path/to/input.gv}} | gvcolor | dot -T {{png}} > {{path/to/output.png}}

Display help

gvcolor -?

Context

tldr-pages: common/gvcolor

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