As already reported upstream in in http://www.graphviz.org/bugs/b1869.html the core SVG renderer for graphviz ignores the alpha component in RGBA colors (Not only for edges, but also for fills) The attached patch turns on support for RGBA in both cases by using stroke- or fill-opacity as apropriate. See also attached example input and output with and w/o the patch. - Ole-Morten Duesund
The patch I attached in the original bugreport has also been sent upstream and has been accepted there. It is included in upstream CVS, but not in any releases yet. - Ole-Morten