2009/5/15 Lars Ræder Clausen <[email protected]>: > 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. graphviz has an option to output dia xml documented somewhere (in a locked toilet cubicle with a sign saying 'beware of the leopard' on the door) that I can never find. > Also checkout Autodia, which is the most advanced autogenerator for Dia. :) now available from a CPAN mirror near you. > 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. Yup - I tend to prune and re-organise anything more than a dozen nodes. > The best it can hope for is to make connected things be close together, > but that's not necessarily meaningful. Quite. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting _______________________________________________ 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
