WinPLOTR

WinPLOTR is a Windows-based data visualization and plotting program designed for scientists to visualize, analyze, and present experimental results. It provides a straightforward environment for importing, displaying, and exporting data collected from laboratory instruments or simulations.

Key features include support for importing data in common ASCII and text formats, with options to manage multiple data sets within a single project. Users can create various plot types, such as line and scatter plots, and customize axes, legends, colors, markers, and grid styles. The software offers basic data processing tools, including background subtraction, scaling, smoothing, and peak fitting, as well as functions for fitting curves and assessing goodness of fit. Derived quantities, such as areas under curves or peak positions, can be computed and annotated on plots.

WinPLOTR emphasizes producing publication-quality graphics. Plots can be annotated with text, arrows, and markers, and exported to bitmap and vector formats suitable for inclusion in reports and manuscripts. Printing options and scalable formats help users prepare figures for different media and journals.

Typical users come from crystallography, spectroscopy, chromatography, and related sciences, where rapid visualization of patterns, spectra, or chromatograms is valuable for data inspection and presentation. The program is designed to be lightweight and easy to use, complementing more comprehensive data analysis suites by providing a focused plotting workflow.

See also: origin software, gnuplot, MATLAB, Igor Pro.