[Techtalk] Basic Tulip questions

[Kelly Jones]

I just installed Tulip on my FreeBSD server. The server has X11
installed, but isn't running it. I asked the questions below to the
Tulip list (auber-users at lists.sourceforge.net) earlier, but got no
reply, so I was hoping someone here was familiar w/ it and could help
me.

Does Tulip have a command-line mode?

Can Tulip recognize graphviz-generated graph files such as those
attached? I couldn't find a way to load these into Tulip?

My experience has been w/ graphviz, and my goal is to create planar
graphs from various data sources.

Graphviz does this, but the resulting graphs tend to (ironically) have
both overlapping nodes (boxes too close to each other) AND excessive
space between nodes (the graphs could be a lot more compact). In some
cases, graphviz creates unnecessarily huge (eg, 32768x32768) GIF files
for fairly simple graphs.

I'm hoping Tulip will automatically draw fairly nice graphs + have
options that let me make them look even nicer, ideally from the
command-line.

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