Re: Recommendation for drawing graphs and creating tables, saving as PDF

2021-06-12 Thread Chris Nyland
If you don't want to have to do any layout, Graphviz, which you mentioned, is probably the best and there are/were Python libraries that will let you control it to automatically produce files. The whole point of graphviz is to do all the layout, however my only grip is it doesn't always make the be

Re: Recommendation for drawing graphs and creating tables, saving as PDF

2021-06-11 Thread Martin Di Paola
You could try https://plantuml.com and http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/. Plantuml may not sound as the right tool but it is quite flexible and after a few tweak you can create a block diagram as you shown. And the good thing is that you *write* which elements and relations are in your diagram an

Re: Recommendation for drawing graphs and creating tables, saving as PDF

2021-06-11 Thread Neal Becker
Jan Erik Moström wrote: > I'm doing something that I've never done before and need some advise for > suitable libraries. > > I want to > > a) create diagrams similar to this one > https://www.dropbox.com/s/kyh7rxbcogvecs1/graph.png?dl=0 (but with more > nodes) and save them as PDFs or some forma

Re: Recommendation for drawing graphs and creating tables, saving as PDF

2021-06-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, Jan Erik Moström wrote: I looked around around but could only find two types of libraries for a) libraries for creating histograms, bar charts, etc, b) very basic drawing tools that requires me to figure out the layout etc. I would prefer a library that would allow me to sta

Recommendation for drawing graphs and creating tables, saving as PDF

2021-06-11 Thread Jan Erik Moström
I'm doing something that I've never done before and need some advise for suitable libraries. I want to a) create diagrams similar to this one https://www.dropbox.com/s/kyh7rxbcogvecs1/graph.png?dl=0 (but with more nodes) and save them as PDFs or some format that can easily be converted to PD