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I'm trying to use pyreverse to generate images of UML diagrams for a project source code. When I run the pyreverse command and specify to generate .png images, it runs, and then, after a while, it shows:

dot: graph is too large for cairo-renderer bitmaps. Scaling by 0.271394 to fit
dot: graph is too large for cairo-renderer bitmaps. Scaling by 0.333083 to fit

Then, if I open either image, the text is unreadable because it got scaled. Is there a way to just not scale, and let the image be large size?

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    Try this one: stackoverflow.com/questions/238724/…. Seems, pyreverse is using graphviz backend for drawing graphs (dot is language and utility of graphviz).
    – Boris Burkov
    Jan 24, 2014 at 7:33
  • I see that link you gave, but I'm not sure how I can use it to fix this. Can you explain more please?
    – omega
    Jan 24, 2014 at 16:59
  • Sorry, I don't have pyreverse on my distro, but the idea is that first you generate your output graph with pyreverse -o in .dot format with -o option and then manually invoke sfdp on it as described e.g. here: stackoverflow.com/questions/13417411/….
    – Boris Burkov
    Jan 24, 2014 at 17:56
  • That worked, but the classes are scattered all around in a circle. Is it possible to make them in a hierarchical view? (like on top of each other)
    – omega
    Jan 24, 2014 at 18:33
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    Can you give input data and the codes tried. So that we will be in a better position to help you out.
    – Praveen Kumar-M
    May 20, 2020 at 6:56

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You may want to consider using a different layout program by specifying the -p option. By default, pyreverse uses the dot program from the Graphviz package, but other options, such as neato or fdp may produce diagrams with different layouts and scaling.

Also, you can try using the -o option to specify the output format of the image. For example, using -o svg will generate an SVG image, which can be scaled without losing quality.

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