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I have some data that represents a flowchart. (A bunch of Jira statuses and their transitions to other statuses.)

I also have a crude way to position each flowchart item on an A4 page in an OpenOffice Draw document. (Though better suggestions welcome for that.)

However, I'd prefer not to have to output a line of boxes and re-arrange them by hand, especially since I might need to re-generate the flowchart several times.

This seems like a common problem, so there must be existing algorithms/techniques that can analyse several items (and the links between them) and do a decent job of placing them in good positions.

Any suggestions on how best to do this?

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  • Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/518685/ – Steve S Oct 19 '10 at 16:16
  • Thanks for that link - looking at [GraphViz](http://www.graphviz.org) and I have a working digraph from my data, so that transfers my problem back into producing a (vector) format that OpenOffice Draw can import. – Peter Boughton Oct 19 '10 at 17:22

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