How can I cross out a node in Graphviz?

Question

I would like to indicate that a node should be there, but is currently lacking in the process. Intuitively I would like to cross it out as shown in below image (now done manually in Paint):

Is there a node attribute in Graphviz that I can use for this?

Answer 1

While the answer of sroush gives me the exact output I need, it requires that I understand how to introduce gvpr in my workflow which will take a bit of time.

In the meantime I came up with a dot only approach, which approximates crossing out a node sufficiently for my purpose.

In below graph I would like to cross out the node Some process:

digraph graphname {
    rankdir=LR
    node [fillcolor="lightblue3", style="filled"]
        a
        c
        d
        b [label="Some\nprocess"]
    a -> b -> c
    a -> d -> c
    {rank=same a;d}
}

To do so I change:

• the nodestyle of the Some process node to have a diagonal hard gradient
• use a HTML-like label to strikethrough the text
• Make the fontcolor and node outline a shade of gray

digraph graphname {
    rankdir=LR
    node [fillcolor="lightblue3", style="filled"]
        a
        c
        d
    node [fillcolor="lightblue3;0.5:white", style="filled", fontcolor="gray50", color="gray50", gradientangle=100]
        b [label=<<s>Some<br/>process</s>>]
    a -> b -> c
    a -> d -> c
    {rank=same a;d}
}