Long story short: Rendering universe.gv (721.8 KB) to SVG on my machine takes 10 hours (dot -v5 -O -Tsvg universe.gv). I would like to improve that, if possible. I recently started a small project to help me build up timelines of events, and have those merged into a single, meaningful graph. I chos…

You are misusing the minlen attribute ( minlen | Graphviz ). Minlen should be an integer that expresses the number of ranks (not inches or pixels) between tail & head for a specific edge. The result is that dot assigns 20703 ranks to the graph. This causes network simplex to run for as long as it …

Dot is no longer my friend. What can I do? (10h SVG Render Process)

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Where can I read more about this “phase” setting?

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Dot is no longer my friend. What can I do? (10h SVG Render Process)

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