Question

Import of dot files

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Please do consider incorporating this into the next version, it is an essential part of my workflow for preparing academic papers.

Currently I use yEd to post-process .dot output from a code analysis tool, and have to use dottoxml (which is not packaged anywhere) to do so.

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DOT file import would allow to use with yEd many of the existing diagrams (since many open source projects save it that way), or it's the output format of uml/db reverse engineering tools.

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Registered just to post this comment. A lot of academic tools use this format. This missing feature is blocking me from always using yED and recommending it to peers. (Now we always copy-pasting everything into http://www.webgraphviz.com/)

Answer 1

If you can install Graphviz, you can use the gv2gml command to convert a DOT (gv) format file to the GML format, which yEd is capable of reading. On Mac OS, I used Homebrew to install it (`brew install graphviz`).

Answer 2

Oddly, Yed Live supports this as of 2020, but the desktop version still doesn't. Anyway, you can convert dot to graphml using Yed Live

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Thanks a lot this worked for me

Answer 3

You could try dottoxml - http://dl9obn.darc.de/programming/python/dottoxml/

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Thanks.  Next opportunity I have to start a graph from a dot, I will try your dottoxml script.

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Is there a good reason why yEd developers chose not to support dot naively?

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Every time when I try to open a DOT file in yEd I ask myself why it is not supported, even though DOT files are produced by many tools.

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I tried dottoxml (2016-04-28) and it does not do the job.  You pretty much have to redo everything.

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would be nice to have this native

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while calling dottoxml file
i am getting below error:
  File "../tools/dottoxml/dottoxml.py", line 336, in <module>
    main()
  File "../tools/dottoxml/dottoxml.py", line 236, in main
    l = unicode(content[idx], options.InputEncoding)
NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined
i am using python 3.7
can someone please help