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  one  to  convert a set of files wrapped by the PyMca Toolkit as SPEC file format, and
       therefore without sample position information, 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