Re: feature request: add support for web diagram

["Aaron Trevena" <aaron trevena gmail com>]

On 20/02/06, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 18:58 -0800, tim hillukka wrote:
> > Hello, I use Visio at work for diagramming web sites.
> > You just connect to the url, and Visio will generate a
> > diagram of pages and the links connecting them.  Could
> > it be possible to add support for this in an upcoming release?
>
> The obvious way to do this would be to have an external tool for it,
> much like AutoDia.  Possibly an extension of AutoDia.  Dia itself
> doesn't yet do automatic layout nor create diagrams from non-diagram
> files.

Actually dia can do automatic layout in graphviz, springgraph and vcg,
but it's layout in Dia leaves rather a lot to be desired. Directed
Graphs are hard :(

I'd say dia is the wrong tool for this job - 10 minutes with perl
using GraphViz and WWW::Mechanize should give you a script that can do
the job very nicely.

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