aiSee: Command Line Samples

> aisee
Starts aiSee¹.

> aisee helloworld.gdl
Starts aiSee¹ with the file helloworld.gdl.

> aisee -multi hello.gdl world.gdl how_are_you.gdl
Starts aiSee¹ with a sequence of graph specifications. First, the graph hello.gdl is visualized and displayed. To see the next graph in the sequence, select File—>Next File. Wildcards may be used, too:
> aisee -multi *.gdl

> aisee -fast huge_graph.gdl
The fastest layout mode is switched on¹. See graph layout FAQs.

> aisee -d tree avl.gdl
The tree algorithm is used to lay out the graph¹ (see tree layout). For a list of all available algorithms, see the corresponding GDL graph attribute layout_algorithm.

> aisee -color -svgoutput humpty.svg dumpty.gdl
A file named humpty.svg containing a color picture of the graph is written in SVG format. Interactive displaying of the graph is turned off ².

> aisee -split 25 -paper 11x17 -psoutput puzzle.ps jigsaw.gdl
A file named puzzle.ps containing a black and white picture of the graph split into 25 tabloid pages is written in PostScript format. Interactive displaying of the graph is turned off ².

> aisee -gdloutput beauty.gdl -ignoresingles chaos.gdl
The input graph is laid out and saved in GDL format. All visible nodes of the graph are annotated by the calculated coordinates. Most information about folded subgraphs is lost. All nodes of the upper-level graph which would appear singly are deleted from the graph specification. This applies to normal nodes, summary nodes, and boxed subgraphs. Interactive displaying of the graph is turned off².

> aisee -
The input GDL specification comes from stdin instead of a file¹.

> aisee -gdloutput - input.gdl
The output GDL specification is written to stdout instead of a file (Unix only)².

> aisee -gdloutput - -
The data is piped through aiSee (Unix only)².

> echo 'graph: { node: {title:"Hello\nWorld!"} }' 
  | aisee -pngoutput hello.png -scale 100 -tm 0px -lm 0px -

Produces the following image (Unix only):

¹ Under Unix (Linux, Solaris, NetBSD), this command will start aiSee in the X11 mode. You will get an error message "unable to open display" if aiSee cannot detect a running instance of X11 or cannot connect with it.
² Under Unix (Linux, Solaris, NetBSD), this command will start aiSee in the console mode (no X11 required).

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