rgerum/pylustrator

Visualisations of data are at the core of every publication of scientific research results. They have to be as clear as possible to facilitate the communication of research. As data can have different formats and shapes, the visualisations often have to be adapted to reflect the data as well as possible. We developed Pylustrator, an interface to directly edit python generated matplotlib graphs to finalize them for publication. Therefore, subplots can be resized and dragged around by the mouse, text and annotations can be added. The changes can be saved to the initial plot file as python code.

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This tool helps researchers and scientists prepare their data visualizations for academic publications. You can drag and resize plots, add text, and annotate directly on your generated graphs. The output is a publication-ready figure and Python code that flawlessly reproduces the exact visual layout, ensuring consistency for journal submissions. It's designed for anyone needing to refine scientific plots.

891 stars. Actively maintained with 3 commits in the last 30 days. Available on PyPI.

Use this if you create scientific data plots and need to visually adjust them for publication while maintaining a reproducible workflow.

Not ideal if you primarily create non-scientific graphics or prefer editing figures in external image manipulation software.

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Maintenance 16 / 25
Adoption 10 / 25
Maturity 25 / 25
Community 13 / 25

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Stars

891

Forks

41

Language

Python

License

GPL-3.0

Category

figma-to-code

Last pushed

Mar 17, 2026

Commits (30d)

3

Dependencies

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