PGF/TikZ is able to produce really eye-candy mind maps (see example). However it might be impractical to create the TikZ structure for larger amount of nodes.

I’ve written a small C program that creates a PGF/TikZ LaTeX file out of a VYM (View Your Mind) XML export. So far this tool has only very basic functionality. Neither it handles UTF-8 explicitly, nor XLinks. Also it doesn’t add any alignment code to the LaTeX file yet, so you have to do some manual editing.

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• Vym2TikZ source tbz2 (2.4 KiB, 2008/08/01, cc-by-nc-sa, requires libxml2)
• Vym2TikZ c source code only (5.0 KiB, 2008/08/01, cc-by-nc-sa, requires libxml2)
• Vym2TikZ binary (3.1 KiB, Linux, 2008/08/01, IA32, dynamically linked against libxml2, compiled under Ubuntu 8.04)

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