Topology hardcopy output

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:22:33PM -0700, Jay Chandler wrote:
> Toni Ruottu wrote:
> > I gathered a set of public domain svg flag pictures for use with GNUnet.
> > The collection might be useful to someone who considers adding
> > geographical visualization features to zenmap. I renamed the pictures by
> > country codes. The collection is available from GNUnet svn repository.
> > See https://gnunet.org/svn/gnunet-gtk/contrib/flags/
>
> Sure would be neat if (someday) we could use nmap to generate a network  
> map for use in Visio, OmniGraffle, or other similar tools.  I'm  
> relatively certain the tools aren't there yet, unfortunately...

Whoa, I might regret saying this, but it would be cool if Zenmap could
save a graphics file containing the topology output. I can see printouts
getting taped up in computer labs around the world.

The topology interface uses Cairo for drawing, which is already capable
of drawing to many types of surfaces, including SVG and PDF. It would be
a matter of redirecting the drawing calls to an output file. In fact,
that's how I generated the icons in the "Legend" section of the topology
documentation: http://nmap.org/book/zenmap-topology.html. I made calls
into the RadialNet Python package and directed the output into SVG
files, which I then rasterized.

David Fifield

_______________________________________________
Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list
http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
Archived at http://SecLists.Org