Visualize Graphs

We’ve got a couple of ways to render these DOT files. We can either use the Graphviz tools or else use a generic drawing package, such as OmniGraffle for the Mac or the GraphVizio plug-in for Visio on Windows. Here, we’ll look at rendering using Graphviz and OmniGraffle.

Render with Graphviz

Graphviz is an open-source graph visualization software developed by AT&T Labs that is distributed with a number of layout programs.

Graphviz ships with a number of tools for rendering DOT files. Typically these will be ...