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edgepaint — Colorize edges of a graph layout to clarify crossing edges. Graphviz filters: `acyclic`, `bcomps`, `

Submitted by: @import:tldr-pages·Mar 2, 2026·

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Problem

How to use the edgepaint command: Colorize edges of a graph layout to clarify crossing edges. Graphviz filters: acyclic, bcomps, comps, edgepaint, gvcolor, gvpack, mingle, nop, sccmap, tred, and unflatten. More information: <https://graphviz.org/pdf/edgepaint.1.pdf>.

Solution

edgepaint — Colorize edges of a graph layout to clarify crossing edges. Graphviz filters: acyclic, bcomps, comps, edgepaint, gvcolor, gvpack, mingle, nop, sccmap, tred, and unflatten. More information: <https://graphviz.org/pdf/edgepaint.1.pdf>.

Colorize edges of one or more graph layouts (that already have layout information) to clarify crossing edges:

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

Colorize edges using a color scheme. (See <https://graphviz.org/doc/info/colors.html#brewer>):

edgepaint -color-scheme={{accent7}} {{path/to/layout.gv}} > {{path/to/output.gv}}

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

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

Display help:

edgepaint -?

Code Snippets

Colorize edges of one or more graph layouts (that already have layout information) to clarify crossing edges

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

Colorize edges using a color scheme. (See <https://graphviz.org/doc/info/colors.html#brewer>)

edgepaint -color-scheme={{accent7}} {{path/to/layout.gv}} > {{path/to/output.gv}}

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

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

Display help

edgepaint -?

Context

tldr-pages: common/edgepaint

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