Too much vertical whitespace when using packages

Question

Using a package for class diagrams results in too much vertical whitespace

@startuml

skinparam handwritten true

 

 

package some.package {

abstract Abstract

class Class

Abstract .. Class : "Test"

 

}

@enduml

 

Tested with plantuml.8055.jar

 

 

Environment Info:

 

The environment variable GRAPHVIZ_DOT has not been set
Dot executable is /usr/local/bin/dot
Dot version: dot - graphviz version 2.40.1 (20161225.0304)
Installation seems OK. File generation OK

Java Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
Java Version: 1.8.0_112-b16
Operating System: Mac OS X
OS Version: 10.12.3
Default Encoding: UTF-8
Language: de
Country: AT
PLANTUML_LIMIT_SIZE: 4096
Processors: 8
Max Memory: 3,817,865,216
Total Memory: 324,534,272
Free Memory: 309,658,880
Used Memory: 14,875,392
Thread Active Count: 7     

Answer 1

Hello,

GraphViz 2.40 does not work very well with PlantUML.

Is it possible for you to downgrade to 2.38 ?

Regards

Comments

I'm having the same issue and would prefer not to downgrade (already cleaned up the old versions installed brew, and there is not a nice way to do it).

I can live with it for now since removing "all" labelled associations solves the issue of long vertical packages, but –if you don't mind me asking– how long before we have a PlantUML update?

Thanks!

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Ok. You should upgrade to PlantUML V2017.11 because in this version we try to limit issues with GraphViz 2.39/2.40

Unfortunately, the issues (I think) are on GraphViz side. We've reported them here:
http://www.graphviz.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=2607
http://www.graphviz.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=2608
But they are still unassigned.

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Oh, I see, sorry, I asked after trying the latest PlantUML version … but I should have checked for Graphviz bugs as well.