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A tool to draw various charts from textual descriptions. Currently, three types of charts are supported: Message Sequence Charts, generic Graphs, and Block Diagrams, with more to be added in the future. There is a command-line version for Linux and Mac (replacing mscgen), which now sports a GUI, as well.

Msc-generator allows fine control over the appearance and has a rich feature set complete with detailed documentation. On Windows, you can embed the charts in a document or presentation and simply double-click it in Office to edit them. On Linux and the Mac, a command-line version is available, and a GUI, as well.
A .deb package is available starting from Debian Bookworm (currently testing) and Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) from the official repositories. For older releases see the Wiki. A Mac homebrew package is available.

Features

  • Integrated with Office on Windows - double click an embedded chart to edit.
  • Linux and Mac GUI to work with charts easily. (NEW in 7.0)
  • Built-in editor with color syntax highlighting, smart-ident, auto-suggest and auto-complete.
  • Debian and Homebrew packages, use apt (Debian Linux) or brew (Mac) to install, GUI included.
  • Signalling charts: A rich syntax to describe arrows, boxes, comments and more.
  • Graphviz: Full support for graphs via the DOT language. Collapse/expand subgraphs, use styles and many other extensions.
  • Block Diagrams: Automatic layout and arrow routing
  • Doxygen, Sphinx, Msctexen integration via full compatibility with mscgen.
  • Full international support with UTF-8 and Windows Unicode files.
  • Export in PNG, PDF, SVG, EMF and EPS formats.
  • Embed chart text in PNG pictures.

Project Samples

Msc-generator on Windows with a chart of Modern blue design Msc-generator on Windows with a chart of Round green design A graph with a design and a collapsed subgraph.

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Categories

Documentation, Data Visualization

License

Affero GNU Public License

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  • jimmy1253682 Posted 2021-06-22
    A great tool. Easy to use.
  • federicadomani Posted 2019-12-18
    This is extra helpful tool for programmers when they work in a group or over Internet. Most important is message diagram generation.
  • persjensen Posted 2019-05-07
    simple and powerful
  • tony-a Posted 2017-12-23
    This is EXCELLENT software. I use it to generate documentation for my software. I really like that the author is enhancing MSC_Generator to produce more types of charts and graphs.
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • vincechook Posted 2017-05-20
    Excellent software, simply the best
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

WINE, Linux, Mac, Windows

Intended Audience

Telecommunications Industry, Architects

User Interface

Win32 (MS Windows), Command-line, SDL

Programming Language

C++, Yacc, Flex

Related Categories

C++ Documentation Software, C++ Data Visualization Software, Yacc Documentation Software, Yacc Data Visualization Software, Flex Documentation Software, Flex Data Visualization Software

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2008-07-07
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