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

NAME

       mca2edf - Convert SPEC file format files to EDF format

SYNOPSIS

       mca2edf [OPTIONS] [FILES]

DESCRIPTION

       X-ray  maps  were  stored at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility as a set of images in ESRF Data Format (EDF). The image rows being
       associated to points of a horizontal sample scan and the image columns to the spectrum channels.

       This tool allows to convert a set of files wrapped by the PyMca Toolkit as SPEC file format, and therefore without sample position informa-
       tion, to European Synchrotron Radiation Facility data format (EDF).

       Its  usefulness	is  nowdays somehow limited because recent PyMca developements allow to reshape nspectra x nchannels datasets in the tools
       making use of the shape information (pymcaroitool, pymcapostbatch).

EXAMPLES

       mca2edf
	   Open a dialog to select input files, output directory and the
	   number of spectra on each horizontal row.

       mca2edf --outdir=/tmp --mcastep=2 *.mca
	   Convert all the .mca files in current directory to a set of EDF
	   files containing two spectra. The output is placed in /tmp

       mca2edf --outdir=/tmp --mcastep=2 --listfile=input_file
	   Same as before but applied to all the files listed in input_file.
	   Each line of input_file must contain a valid file name.

SEE ALSO

       pymcaroitool, pymcapostbatch

ESRF
								    March 2012								mca2edf(1)