How to draw a better looking Graph (A4 size) in Dot?

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Published on 2010-03-28T14:48:38Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 14:53 UTC
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Hi,

I have this project that it's due in a few hours and I still have a report to write... The project has nothing to do with Dot, but we were asked to draw a Graph with Dot, which I did.

It looks something like this:
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9735/dotj.jpg

The longer arrows represent smaller weights and the shorter arrows represent bigger weights. There isn't any problem in submitting my project like this, it does what's is supposed to do and this Dot thing is just an extra.

But I would like to make it pretty, I just don't have time to learn about Dot right now. Basically, all I want is make pretty. Perhaps, a bigger height for the page, like A4 paper size. And have the graph display more to the bottom than everything to the side.

What should I put on my .dot file to make it look better?

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