MetaUML

MetaUML is a GNU GPL MetaPost library for typesetting UML diagrams, using a human-friendly textual notation.

NICE! Draw UML diagrams interactively using MetaUML Live!

Here's what you can do with MetaUML (also see the FAQ):

• Create UML diagrams readily usable in a LaTeX article or book.
• Create independent PDF-s
• Create jpeg-s, png-s etc.

You are free to download and use the library itself or the PDF manual (LaTeX and MetaPost sources included). Have a look at the MetaUML Library of Patterns (due to Radu-George Radulescu), which contains MetaUML-typset UML class diagrams useful in explaining the classic Design Patterns from GoF.

MetaUML currently offers support for class diagrams, package diagrams, activity diagrams, state machine diagrams use case diagrams and component diagrams.

MetaUML moves forward! If you are interested in this project, either as an user or as a developer, I'd like to hear from you (ogheorghies--at--gmail--dot--com): development is done primarily on a "somebody needs this" basis.

Latest news [0.2.5]: Support for component diagrams

26 August 2006. Library v. 0.2.5. Manual v. 0.2.5.

Don't forget to have a look at the manual's "Arranging Diagram Items"

MetaUML 0.2.0 introduced a new, easy way of arranging diagram items. It supersedes the positioning techniques used in the Library of Patterns.