1mca2edf(1)             PyMca X-Ray Fluorescence Toolkit             mca2edf(1)
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NAME

6       mca2edf - Convert SPEC file format files to EDF format
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SYNOPSIS

10       mca2edf [OPTIONS] [FILES]
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DESCRIPTION

14       X-ray  maps  were stored at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
15       as a set of images in ESRF Data Format  (EDF).  The  image  rows  being
16       associated  to points of a horizontal sample scan and the image columns
17       to the spectrum channels.
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19       This tool allows one to convert a set of files  wrapped  by  the  PyMca
20       Toolkit  as  SPEC  file  format,  and therefore without sample position
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24       Its  usefulness  is nowdays somehow limited because recent PyMca devel‐
25       opements allow to reshape nspectra x nchannels datasets  in  the  tools
26       making use of the shape information (pymcaroitool, pymcapostbatch).
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EXAMPLES

30       mca2edf
31           Open a dialog to select input files, output directory and the
32           number of spectra on each horizontal row.
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34       mca2edf --outdir=/tmp --mcastep=2 *.mca
35           Convert all the .mca files in current directory to a set of EDF
36           files containing two spectra. The output is placed in /tmp
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38       mca2edf --outdir=/tmp --mcastep=2 --listfile=input_file
39           Same as before but applied to all the files listed in input_file.
40           Each line of input_file must contain a valid file name.
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SEE ALSO

44       pymcaroitool, pymcapostbatch
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48ESRF                              March 2012                        mca2edf(1)