I'm working with Graphviz on Mac but most of my apps run on servers with Ubuntu. I've noticed that dot-schemes with the same source code are drawn a bit differently when compiled on different operating systems.
It seems to me that the main reason is the difference between fonts on the systems. Even though I use the same generic fonts and same sizes — they appear too different which affects the layout a lot.
So the question is: is it possible to make fonts look identical in Graphviz schemes across the systems?
Below I attach the examples demonstrating the problem. Images are attached as links for convenience.
Source code:
digraph {
graph [label="Mac" labelloc=t]
dpi=100
pad=0.2
rankdir=LR
a [shape=rect label="width=1" width=1]
b [shape=rect label="width=1.5 Arial" width=1.5 fontname=Arial]
c [shape=rect label="width=2.7 Arial 20" width=2.7 fontname=Arial fontsize=20]
d [shape=rect label="width=4 Helvetica" width=4 fontname=Helvetica]
e [shape=rect label="width=5 Helvetica 25" width=5 fontname=Helvetica fontsize=25]
f [shape=rect label="width=6, blue 0.8, red 0.2" width=6 style=filled color="blue:red;0.2" fontcolor=white]
}
- Generated on Mac graphviz version 2.40.1
- Generated on Ubuntu graphviz version 2.40.1
- Generated on Windows 10 graphviz version 2.38
As you can see on the schemes — the font is not the only problem: filling with two colors looks a bit different on Mac\Ubuntu and Win10. But this specific issue may be because I have graphviz 2.38 on my Windows machine.
And now the same scheme but without node labels:
digraph {
graph [label=Mac labelloc=t]
dpi=100
pad=0.2
rankdir=LR
a [shape=rect label="" width=1]
b [shape=rect label="" width=1.5 fontname=Arial]
c [shape=rect label="" width=2.7 fontname=Arial fontsize=20]
d [shape=rect label="" width=4 fontname=Helvetica]
e [shape=rect label="" width=5 fontname=Helvetica fontsize=25]
f [shape=rect label="" width=6 style=filled color="blue:red;0.2" fontcolor=white]
}
- Generated on Mac graphviz version 2.40.1
- Generated on Ubuntu graphviz version 2.40.1
- Generated on Windows 10 graphviz version 2.38
Here the resuts are almost identical (except the damn colorlist)