The program can be called from the command line as follows:

> aisee3 [options] [GDL file]

The input GDL file must be always specified at the very end. Any options specified thereafter will be ignored. For example:

this won’t work
> aisee3 in.gdl --export out.svg
this is the right way
> aisee3 --export out.svg in.gdl

The following command line options are supported by aiSee 3 under Windows and Linux. aiSee 3 for Mac OS X doesn’t support them yet.

Option Description
--export File

Directly exports the computed layout into the file named File. Interactive displaying of the graph is turned off. The file type is automatically derived from the file extension. For example, --export out.svg directly exports the graph to SVG. Currently, the following formats are supported:

  • SVG
  • PNG
  • PS
  • EPS
  • PDF
  • XPM
  • XBM
  • PPM
  • BMP
  • HTML

You can specify several instances of --export at once. This enables you to save the layout in several file formats in one go (e.g., a PNG image and a corresponding HTML image map), export several parts of the layout at once, etc.
--scale F

Scales the graph by a factor of F (floating-point number).
--area WxH+X+Y

When used in combination with --export, this option enables an image part to be exported instead of the entire image. The image part to be exported is specified by a bounding rectangle with the width W and the height H, while X and Y specify an offset from the graph origin, i.e. from the upper left corner of the layout.
--svg-embed-icons

Useful only when exporting a graph that contains bitmap icons to SVG. With this option on, the icons are embedded in the output SVG file instead of simply being referenced by their paths.
--html-image-name File

Specifies the file name of the image to be referenced in subsequent image-map exports.
--server Port

Starts aiSee in server mode, enabling communication with other applications via TCP (see page 21 of the PDF user manual that is included in the aiSee package).
--hostid

Displays the host ID of your machine.
--help

Displays the version and build number of your copy of aiSee along with a complete list of command line options supported by it.
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