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by johnnyAghands 431 days ago
Ok unrelated, but I'm looking for a tool for making diagrams like that, anyone know what was used on this post? ty
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That particular diagram seems to have been generated by https://plantuml.com according to the image's metadata
Yes! The EXIF data includes the full plantuml used to generate it, under the Plantuml tag.

https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/VPBFQXmn3CRlynGYzzdUXn...

Wow! That's pretty slick. I've only thought of EXIF data in the context of my digital camera.
I believe, though I can't find an unambiguous reference, that a tool or user is allowed to define and populate any XMP/Exif attribute it wants, within the technical limits of attribute/value definition of the relevant metadata. Whether or not anything else can read and make sense of that metadata is a different problem.
wow! didn't even think to look at that! ty!
Not the tool OP used but Excalidraw is excellent! https://excalidraw.com/
Mermaid
draw.io probably . It's pretty good for a free tool. If you lost the xml I think it even work to import directly an exported picture (I guess they append the data into it too).