BLOCKDIAG3(1)

✨ NAME ✨

blockdiag3 — bestie, this lil icon generates a block-diagram image file from a spec-text file 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

blockdiag3 [options] file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this manual page documents briefly the blockdiag3 commands. brief, but make it cute ✨

blockdiag3 is a program that generate block-diagram image file from spec-text file. that's the whole vibe: you hand it a spec-text file, it hands you back a whole diagram. main character energy fr fr 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). a summary of options is included below — for a complete description, see the SEE ALSO section, bestie 🫶

• --version — show program's version number and exit 💅
• -h, --help — Show summary of options
• -a, --antialias — Pass diagram image to anti-alias filter ✨ (smooth edges, we love to see it)
• -c FILE, --config=FILE — read configurations from FILE
• -o FILE — write diagram to FILE
• -f FONT, --font=FONT — use FONT to draw diagram
• --fontmap=FONT — use FONTMAP file to draw diagram
• -s, --separate — Separate diagram images for each group
• -T TYPE — Output diagram as TYPE format
• --nodoctype — Do not output doctype definition tags (SVG only)
• --no-transparency — do not make transparent background of diagram (PNG only)

ngl bestie, watch those last two — --nodoctype is SVG only and --no-transparency is PNG only, so don't go expecting them to do anything on the other formats 🙈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

The programs are documented fully by http://tk0miya.bitbucket.org/blockdiag/build/html/index.html

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

blockdiag was written by Takeshi Komiya <i.tkomiya@gmail.com> 🫶

This manual page was written by Kouhei Maeda <mkouhei@palmtb.net>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

okay that's the whole page, no cap 💖 this was BLOCKDIAG3(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual, dated May 9, 2011 — slay, periodt 👑🌸