Introduction of seqdiag

Features

• Generate sequence-diagram from dot like text (basic feature).
• Multilingualization for node-label (utf-8 only).
• Sphinx embedding

Setup

by easy_install

Make environment

$ sudo easy_install seqdiag

by buildout

Make environment

$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/tk0miya/seqdiag
$ cd seqdiag
$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout

Copy and modify ini file. example

$ cp <seqdiag installed path>/seqdiag/examples/simple.diag .
$ vi simple.diag

Please refer to Sample diagams section for the format of the simpla.diag configuration file.

Usage

Execute seqdiag command

$ seqdiag simple.diag
$ ls simple.png
simple.png

If you want SVG images, use -T option

$ seqdiag -Tsvg simple.diag
$ ls simple.svg
simple.svg

Font Configuration

seqdiag uses TrueType Font to render text. seqdiag try to detect installed fonts but if nothing detected, You can specify fonts with -f (–font) option

$ seqdiag -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf simple.diag

If you always use same font, write $HOME/.blockdiagrc

$ cat $HOME/.blockdiagrc
[seqdiag]
fontpath = /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf

Requirements

• Python 2.4 or later (not support 3.x)
• Python Imaging Library 1.1.5 or later.
• funcparserlib 0.3.4 or later.
• setuptools or distribute.

License

Apache License 2.0