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IGOR Pro produces publication-quality graphics: IGOR prints at high resolution and exports high-resolution graphics formats such as Encapsulated PostScript (EPS).
IGOR Pro can display multiple data sets of any length in any number of graphs and tables. IGOR is very fast and excels at handling large data sets (more than 100,000 points, for example). String data and numeric data in 8 internal formats and up to four dimensions are supported.
In graphs, each curve has its own color, line size, and style. Line color, marker size, and marker shape (or marker text) for each point on a curve can be set by values in another data set. Any number of curves, axes, annotations, contour curves, pictures, or images may be displayed in a graph. Category plots and error bars are fully supported. It is easy to zoom in and pan around a graph. Graphs have cursors for reading out coordinates of individual data points.
Page layout windows present graphs, tables, text annotation, and pictures. Fonts, type sizes, and styles can be mixed in axis labels and annotations.
IGOR Pro can import data from a wide variety of formats, including text, general binary, Excel, JCAMP, and MatLab data files. IGOR supports import and export of many graphics file formats via QuickTime.
IGOR's Data Browser lets you organize you data efficiently in much the same way that you organize files in a hierarchy of folders on your hard drive. With the browser you can navigate through the different levels of data folders, examine values of variables, strings and waves, and load data objects from other Igor experiments.
Drawing tools can be used add callouts to your graphs (using screen or data coordinates) and to page layouts.
Analysis capabilities include: Fourier, wavelet, and Hough transforms; linear and non-linear curve fitting to built-in or user-defined functions with unlimited independent variables; differentiation, integration, and ordinary differential equations; convolution; correlation; histograms; smoothing; mathematical expression evaluation; matrix operations featuring many LAPACK routines; signal measurement; contouring of sparse or matrix data; and false-color displays.
IGOR Pro includes a powerful suite of image analysis operations for image filtering, manipulation, and quantification.
The built-in Notebook editor is a full-featured word processor that you can use to combine text and graphics. IGOR Pro graphics in notebooks can be set to dynamically update, and Mac OS Publish and Subscribe is supported.
IGOR Pro includes a powerful and full-featured structured programming language that you can use for automation of data import, file I/O, analysis, data acquisition, graphing, drawing, printing, and just about anything you can think of. You can add menus to the program and create control panels containing buttons, checkboxes, popup menus, and other controls to set parameters or display results.
IGOR Pro aids you in your programming tasks with syntax coloring and a symbolic debugger that will help you efficiently troubleshoot your code.
IGOR Pro ships with many examples illustrating (among other things) peak fitting, signal processing, data acquisition, test automation, and graphing techniques.
IGOR Pro's comprehensive manual is provided in Adobe® Acrobat PDF format. The online documentation is fully searchable and contains numerous hot-linked cross references so you can quickly find the information you need.
XOPs supplied with IGOR Pro extend its capabilities to surface plots and slicing of 3D data, for data import, serial port and GPIB (IEEE 488) communications, sound input and output, and lots more!
In addition to XOPs supplied by WaveMetrics, IGOR Pro users can create their own XOPs with the optional IGOR XOP Toolkit.
With the optional NIDAQ Tools, IGOR Pro can also directly acquire analog and digital signals from most National Instruments "multifunction" data acquisition boards, including the PCI-MI016XE-50 and PCI-1200 series.
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