Windows/Linux Diagram Differences

Question

Using plantuml.1.2023.1.jar on Win10 64-bit and Linux 64-bit yields different diagram.  The Windows diagrams almost seem forced to be "flat" and "left to right direction" (although, not quite the lsame as left to right direction on Linux, if specified).

On Windows, I have tried changing the Java 11 version used (Oracle/Corretto) and even using the "no dot" package with a manual graphviz installation, but the result is the same.

Desire/intent is to have Windows generated images look like the Linux versions.

Windows:

Linux:

PlantUML Code:

@startuml
skin rose

actor :Stakeholder: as stk
actor :TPM: as tpm
actor :CHENG: as cheng
actor :Supervisor: as sup
actor :PLT: as plt

package "System Z" {
  component [Subystem 1] as sub_1
  component [Subsystem 2] as sub_2

  tpm - plt
  cheng - plt
  sup - plt

  plt - sub_1
}

sub_1 - stk
sub_2 - stk

@enduml

Answer 1

Hello B., 

Could you change all `-` arrow to `--` arrow (in order to be top to bottom...), as:

@startuml
skin rose

actor :Stakeholder: as stk
actor :TPM: as tpm
actor :CHENG: as cheng
actor :Supervisor: as sup
actor :PLT: as plt

package "System Z" {
  component [Subystem 1] as sub_1
  component [Subsystem 2] as sub_2

  tpm -- plt
  cheng -- plt
  sup -- plt

  plt -- sub_1
}

sub_1 -- stk
sub_2 -- stk

@enduml

If that can help,
Regards,
Th.

Comments

Great, thanks!  I didn't notice that the text file got mangled between the two systems.

You're correct that changing the '-' back to '--' fixed the graphic generation on Windows.

Thansk very much!  I apprecaite it.