On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:30 -0300, Adriano Bonat wrote: > Hi guys, > > I used, with success, "Postgresql autodoc" to reverse engineer my > database, but it generates a Dia diagram without a layout, and having > about ~60 tables with several associations would take a lot of my time > to organize it, and also, wouldn't be the best layout. > > So I was wondering if there isn't already a way to do this layout > organization. I tried to figure out to maybe try to design the same > diagram using graphviz and then try to map its calculated coordinates > to the Dia diagram, but no luck.
There has been some effort at making graphviz output dia files, and I seem to remember it working, though it's been a while. Also checkout Autodia, which is the most advanced autogenerator for Dia. I will challenge your claim that a hand-crafted layout would not be the best layout, though. An automatic layouter should never be used for more than a rough draft, as it has no understanding of what belongs where. The best it can hope for is to make connected things be close together, but that's not necessarily meaningful. -Lars _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
