Introduction
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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.


Installation
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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 Igor 7 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.

PEARL Procedures has been tested under Igor Pro version 6.37 (32-bit). Older versions prior to 6.36 are not be compatible. Please update to the latest Igor Pro 6 version before reporting any problems.

PEARL Procedures compiles under Igor 7.00. Some features, in particular 3D graphics, may not work properly.


License
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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.
Please share your extensions of the code with the original author.

Author
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Matthias Muntwiler, <mailto:matthias.muntwiler@psi.ch>

Copyright
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Copyright 2009-2016 by [Paul Scherrer Institut](http://www.psi.ch)


Release Notes
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## rev-distro-1.1.1 

- If you have upgraded PEARL Procedures from pre-1.1.1 and Igor breaks in pearl-elog.ipf while opening an experiment, please delete the ELOG preferences file `pearl-elog/preferences.pxp`. (Check the Igor Help to find the package preferences folder on your system.)