PEARL Procedures is a suite of Igor Pro procedures developed for data acquisition and data processing at the PEARL beamline at the Swiss Light Source. PEARL Procedures requires Igor Pro 8 or newer.
PEARL Procedures should be installed according to the regular Igor Pro guidelines. Please read the Igor help `About Igor Pro User Files` for details.
- Make a `pearl-procs` directory in your private or shared `User Procedures` folder, and copy the PEARL Procedures distribution there.
- Create shortcuts of the `pearl-arpes.ipf` and `pearl-menu.ipf` files, and move them to the `Igor Procedures` folder next to your `User Procedures` folder.
- Find the `HDF5.XOP` (`HDF5-64.xop` for 64-bit) extension in the `Igor Pro Folder` under `More Extensions/File Loaders` (`More Extensions (64-bit)/File Loaders`), create a shortcut, and move the shortcut to the `Igor Extensions` folder next to your `User Procedures` folder.
- Find the `HDF5 Help.ihf` next to `HDF5.XOP`, create a shortcut, and move the shortcut to the `Igor Help Files` folder next to your `User Procedures` folder.
The source code of PEARL Procedures is available under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) at <https://git.psi.ch/pearl-public/igor-procs>.
Please read and respect the respective license agreements.
- The interface of data reduction functions has changed to make data reduction more efficient in multi-peak fits. The supplied reduction functions and dialogs have been refactored. If you want to use your own reduction functions written for pre-2.0, you have to adapt them to the new interface.
