edfviewer(1)

💖 edfviewer(1) — the glow-up edition 💖

okay bestie, sit down, grab your iced coffee ☕✨ because today we're talking about edfviewer(1) from the PyMca X-Ray Fluorescence Toolkit — yes, that whole toolkit, we're naming it up top like the icon it is 👑

🌸 NAME 🌸

edfviewer — your no-drama, just-look-at-the-picture EDF file viewer 🎀

literally the simplest possible thing and that's the whole point, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

edfviewer [FILE(S)]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you hand it file(s), it shows you the file(s). FILE(S) is a placeholder, so like, put your actual filenames there, bestie 🙈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this is the tool to visualize image files which format has been wrapped as EDF into the X-ray fluorescence toolkit 💅

translation for the group chat: it's a viewer. it views. the images go on the screen. slay.

and the range of files it can visualize?? iconic, actually. it's giving versatility 👑

• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility data format 🏛️
• uncompressed or packbits TIFF
• ADSC .img
• Pilatus .cbf
• MarCCD
• ...and among others — yes she said among others, she's flexible 💁‍♀️

🚨 real talk time, bestie: if you want to do anything other than just simple visualization, this is not your girl.

like, the moment you need to do something else, the moment you need more than a simple look 👀 — consider other tools, fr fr.

in that case pymca, pymcaroitool or rgbcorrelator should be preferred. those are the ones you want. periodt 💅

so: pretty picture, just look → edfviewer. anything extra → the other three. the manpage literally says "should be preferred," so I'm just passing along the message 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pymca
• pymcaroitool
• rgbcorrelator

go read those too, they're the ones with the main character energy for actual analysis ✨

and that's the whole page!! short, sweet, to the point, exactly like a good viewer should be 💖

this little love letter to EDF viewing comes to you from ESRF, dated March 2012 — yes she's an elder icon, she's been serving since 2012 and she's still here 🌸💅

k bye, go look at some images 🦋💜