skinparam that addresses width activity diagrams?

Question

I have a multi-conditional activity diagram that insists on being 2500 pixels wide and the culprit is the width in-between the brances. They seem excessively wide.

On this forum I've seen skinparam values that address such a thing but it doesn't work on my activity diagram

puml exported as a png to see what I mean:

http://imgur.com/Rd04mQo

should be noted that when I removed the two inner 'notes' the width of each branch shrunk as expected.. So obviously there is some logic that implments symmetry in branches so that all width's are equal? How do I fine-tune that so that I can have these two notes (which are important) while not have excessive widths for the other branches?

Much Thanks for this work.

 

edit: version is 7892 

source is 

 

@startuml

 

start

 

:TrapProcessor has resulted in a new alarm;

 

:Retrieve any active alarms that are related to this new Alarm;

note right

    related alarms share

    :SiteId

    :ControllerId

    :AlarmName

    :PointId

end note

 

if(clear event?) then (yes)

    if(alarm require ACK?) then (yes)

        :update active alarm and alarm trend

        with time cleared and clear method;

    else (no)

        :delete active alarm;

        :update alarm trend with

        time cleared and clear method;

    endif

else (no)

    if(related alarms are present?) then (yes)

        if(has severity of the related alarm changed?) then (yes)

            if(alarm requires ACK?) then (yes)

                :update active alarm and alarm trend

                with time cleared and clear method;

                'note right: this related alarm has been cleared

                :add this new active alarm;

                :create a new alarm trend for this alarm;

            else (no)

                :delete active alarm;

                :update alarm trend with

                time cleared and clear method;

                'note left: this related alarm has been cleared

                :add this new active alarm;

                :create a new alarm trend for this alarm;

            endif

        else (no)

            :update active alarm and alarm trend;

        endif

    else (no)

        :add this new active alarm;

        :create a new alarm trend for this alarm;

    endif

endif

 

end

 

@enduml

Answer 1

Hello,

Which version of PlantUML are you using ?

@startuml
version
@enduml

Did you try with the last version of plantuml ?

You can try it online here : http://plantuml.com/plantuml

It would be nice it you could put here the text of your diagram so that we investigate on it.

Thanks,

Comments

edited original question based on your input

Answer 2

You should upgrade to last option of plantuml, which give better result.

You can also add \n in your note to reduce their width:

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/form?url=pLF1Ri8m3Btp5Jx2By1XGfocIHFQTjp5QrmIAKrOOeRu-pbfe9HsKzbflRIgxVUUxMU8Z85dC5k-1TnlWwyeHXz0OuH0yM2P51W728wEW1P3iqhPByJ1q1S1kXDWnIPzfcW4riY0WQJUOYfdB_zCp0Zh5i5vbhZPQQ6MvvnP4AAMyXnOlXgcHzL-RxpZuAsbSFwJqPwnASbRRnnBZ9o2n212JJslB640qUhuOI5AoC7yH76HQoIUIKN2vy68wFNcQPYLqGzx9I9xpKhtHJHm4DPByj6m1ZODGMPFhKbcgwGXrbwjSYxPI31t_ef6aQKRcjLGHCUPkIu9KpYTClMiponZkDb1Mk1U730wjLAIJ19biC7m2NoTilghX4gZsv4QHnYRV_nv0NzQnBqBkNuwaovR0_TwUtUf_GyIdGLog1ILwgm_lj5BRXKeTzKTMjblBUUOGKOgX_wPvgF9Vhh3LuFHMQh_yUJo5Vm-nobEwr0xn96hdj3FVNsKAsuvq_iR

You can also add

scale 0.8

to slightly reduce the scale of the diagram:

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/png/pLEnJiD03Dtp5HxRXHcr0wew8IHK0IEBoJczaovtvSwbwj_ZkwHDqmIKCf4bKMo_zsm_nn8jmTrz4Ha35r0itWBkDi6N5ACFe352eBYtJ0gC0mH71q2BeLwcx1VYOEYB0DqHi6IJFbCq0cjam41IRp6LivT_9cQ4LOFWF4lSRBLGotFAR16Ybl8SMBmQfaVLVA-zu-2jfN3waz6UiMwJDzuubXWv1Ob1X9fgLbh20ABLySDSb923sP7YFDT8F9EAXC-z4T6hzTCmAwFlTqf4zfgLxblHm45Opya7mnhOr0IPFRKccOsIcbXxjSovP2F1pFaB6aMMhcYMGn4TP-Ow9qpXTCfKHPzPnd2rWxJ0dJXWT6fjIJ99bC46mqVmLShghn9AZMvBQXnXRFxnvmNyQH6tBkJowKowQ0pSw-tTfVO_I7Isa4Ebg5Hd_V6DddFBGBchxj3Q_LPoZXbaf7Bedsa-ckod6tmr69sbwXzFBb_1xtESuhGEjKCSkUe9_TpMHtl53MTwVmC0

What do you think about it ?