---
name: "mca2edf"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pymca"
version: "5.9.4-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mca2edf"
---

# mca2edf(1)

Convert SPEC file format files to EDF format

## NAME

mca2edf - Convert SPEC file format files to EDF format

## SYNOPSIS

mca2edf \[OPTIONS\] \[FILES\]

## DESCRIPTION

X-ray maps were stored at the European Synchrotron Radiation  Facility as a set of images in ESRF Data Format (EDF). The  image rows being associated to points of a horizontal sample  scan and the image columns to the spectrum channels.

This tool allows one to convert a set of files wrapped by the  PyMca Toolkit as SPEC file format, and therefore without sample  position information, to European Synchrotron Radiation  Facility data format (EDF).

Its usefulness is nowdays somehow limited because recent PyMca  developements allow to reshape nspectra x nchannels datasets in  the tools making use of the shape information (pymcaroitool,  pymcapostbatch).

## EXAMPLES

**mca2edf**\
     Open a dialog to select input files, output directory and the\
     number of spectra on each horizontal row.

**mca2edf --outdir=/tmp --mcastep=2 \*.mca**\
     Convert all the .mca files in current directory to a set of EDF \
     files containing two spectra. The output is placed in /tmp

**mca2edf --outdir=/tmp --mcastep=2 --listfile=input\_file**\
     Same as before but applied to all the files listed in input\_file.\
     Each line of input\_file must contain a valid file name.

## SEE ALSO

pymcaroitool, pymcapostbatch