Recommendation for drawing graphs and creating tables, saving as PDF

[Neal Becker]

Jan Erik Moström wrote:

> I'm doing something that I've never done before and need some advise for
> suitable libraries.
> 
> I want to
> 
> a) create diagrams similar to this one
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/kyh7rxbcogvecs1/graph.png?dl=0 (but with more
> nodes) and save them as PDFs or some format that can easily be converted
> to PDFs
> 
> b) generate documents that contains text, lists, and tables with some
> styling. Here my idea was to save the info as markdown and create PDFs
> from those files, but if there is some other tools that gives me better
> control over the tables I'm interested in knowing about them.
> 
> I looked around around but could only find two types of libraries for a)
> libraries for creating histograms, bar charts, etc, b) very basic
> drawing tools that requires me to figure out the layout etc. I would
> prefer a library that would allow me to state "connect A to B", "connect
> C to B", "connect B to D", and the library would do the whole layout.
> 
> The closest I've found it to use markdown and mermaid or graphviz but
> ... PDFs (perhaps I should just forget about PDFs, then it should be
> enough to send people to a web page)
> 
> (and yes, I could obviously use LaTeX ...)
> 
> = jem

Like this?
https://pypi.org/project/blockdiag/