---
name: "drawMask_pymca"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pyfai"
version: "0.10.2-1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/drawMask_pymca"
---

# drawMask\_pymca(1)

drawMask\_pymca

## NAME

drawMask\_pymca - drawMask\_pymca

## DESCRIPTION

usage: usage: drawMask\_pymca file1.edf file2.edf ...

Draw a mask, i.e. an image containing the list of pixels which are considered invalid (no scintillator, module gap, beam stop shadow, ...). This will open a PyMca window and let you draw on the first image (provided) with different tools (brush, rectangle selection, ...). When you are finished, come back to the console and press enter.

### positional arguments:

- FILE

  Files to be processed

### optional arguments:

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **-v**, **--version**

  show program's version number and exit

The mask image is saved into file1-masked.edf. Optionally the script will print the number of pixel masked and the intensity masked (as well on other files provided in input)