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From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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Subject: GRAPH-DRAWING PROGRAMS
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Subject: GRAPH-DRAWING PROGRAMS
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In yesterday's CVA seminar, Paul Heider gave a demo of Gliffy.
Ahmed Hassan writes:
| From amhassan@buffalo.edu  Tue Mar  6 02:44:09 2007
| ... 
| 1- There is a package called LEDA (for Library of Efficient Datastructures 
| & Algorithms) that can be included within a Visual C++ projects. It's a 
| COMMERCIAL product of a German Company "Algorithmic Solutions: 
| www.algorithmic-solutions.com", that produces many scientific software 
| products like that LEDA. Programs written under that LEDA platform can work 
| on almost all PCs (Sun, Intel, ... ).
| Since it's a commercial product, it's full of a lot of facilities for 
| drawing different types of "structures"; graphs are some of them. This is 
| done through a GUI interface or through giving C++ commands (giving the 
| labels of nodes and edges, shapes, directions, colors, 3D effects ... etc. 
| is so easy and under full control of the programmer). It exports (and 
| imports) almost all famous graph types and image types.
| N.B. I'm not sending this as a recommendation/advertisement to buy that 
| product, I only give as much information as I know. The company allows the 
| use of an evaluation copy for 1 month for $9, I think.
| 
| 2- There is an executable FREE program "yED.exe: Graph Editor" that can be 
| downloaded from <http://www.yworks.com/en/products_download.php> that works 
| pretty much the same way as gliffy does. However, compared to gliffy, yED 
| is:
| 	- off-line program, and can be used to design networks and graphs when not 
| connected to the Internet,
| 	- more easier to edit and update ALL properties of the nodes and edges of 
| the graph (like colors, labels, sizes, directions...etc),
| 	- more easier and faster to re-arrange the layouts of the drawn structures,
| 3- Of course, there are a lot of other resources, but the 2 previous ones 
| are what I already used and they satisfy most of the requirements (for me).