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Some IDL product documentation is provided in PDF file format

Note: For IDL 8.2 or later, the IDL Online Help and PDF files can be found on the Exelis Visual Information Solutions web site at:

http://www.harrisgeospatial.com/docs/home.html

http://www.harrisgeospatial.com/docs/PDF_Guides.html

 

A portion of IDL product documentation is available only in PDF files that are installed in the "/help/pdf"  subdirectory of the IDL installation tree. This directory is located in the following default locations for various platforms:

Operating System Default Directory with IDL PDF Help Files
Windows C:\Program Files\exelis\IDLxx\help\pdf\
Linux /usr/local/exelis/idlxx/help/pdf/
Mac OS X /Applications/exelis/idlxx/help/pdf/
Solaris /usr/local/exelis/idlxx/help/pdf/

For IDL 8.0 and 8.1, the default installation directory is ".../itt/idl/" instead of ".../exelis/"
Please note that the some of the IDL Help PDF documentation may not be updated with information for the current version of IDL. Much of the PDF documentation will be transitioned into the IDL online help system in future versions of IDL.


The table below lists the available IDL help documents in PDF format for the different IDL 8.x versions:

PDF File Name IDL Document Title/Topic Contents Status in IDL 8.0 Status in IDL 8.2
analyst.pdf IDL Advanced Math and Statistics Module
  • General information about the module
  • Functional List of IMSL Routines
  • Alphabetical Listing of IMSL Routines
  • Mathematics Routines
  • Statistics Routines
  • PDF PDF
    bridges.pdf IDL Connectivity Bridges
  • About the IDL Bridges
  • Importing into IDL
  • Exporting from IDL
  • Appendices (IDL Java Object API, COM Object Creation, Java Object Creation, Multidimensional Array Storage and Access)
  • PDF PDF
    building.pdf Application Programming
  • Application Programming
  • Components of the IDL Language
  • Creating Applications in IDL
  • PDF IDL Online Help System. From the table of Contents select Environement > Using Procedures, Functions, SAVE Files
    datamine.pdf IDL DataMiner Guide
  • Dataminer Overview
  • Using the IDL DataMiner
  • IDL DataMiner API
  • ODBC Configuration on UNIX Systems
  • PDF PDF
    edg.pdf External Development Guide
  • External Development Overview
  • Techniques That Do Not Use IDL’s Internal API
  • IDL’s Internal API
  • Techniques That Use IDL’s Internal API
  • PDF PDF
    image.pdf Image Processing
  • Introduction to Image Processing in IDL
  • Transforming Image Geometry
  • Mapping an Image onto Geometry
  • Working with Masks and Image Statistics
  • Warping Images
  • Working with Regions of Interest (ROIs)
  • Transforming Between Domains
  • Contrasting and Filtering
  • Extracting and Analyzing Shapes
  • PDF PDF
    itooldevguide.pdf iTools Programming
  • Overview of iTools
  • Understanding the iTools Component Framework
  • Using the iTools Component Framework
  • Modifying the iTool User Interface
  • PDF PDF
    itooluserguide.pdf iTools User's Guide
  • Introducing the IDL iTools
  • Importing and Exporting Data
  • Visualizations
  • Manipulating the Display
  • Adding Annotations
  • Property Sheets and Browsers
  • Common Operations
  • Working with Macros
  • Working with Styles
  • Using the iTools Procedural Interface
  • Working with Images
  • Working with Surfaces
  • Working with Contours
  • Working with Plots
  • Working with Volumes
  • Working with Maps
  • Working with Vectors
  • Appendices (iTools Interface Reference, Property Controls, Operations Properties, Visualization Properties)
  • PDF PDF
    objects.pdf Object Programming
  • The Basics of Using Objects in IDL
  • Creating an Object Graphics Display
  • Positioning Objects in a View
  • Working with Image Objects
  • Working with Plots and Graphs
  • Working with Surface Objects
  • Creating Volume Objects
  • Polygon and Polyline Objects
  • Annotating an Object Display
  • Animating Objects
  • Selecting Objects
  • Displaying, Copying and Printing Objects
  • Creating Custom Objects in IDL
  • Advanced Rendering Using Shader Objects
  • PDF IDL Online Help System. From the table of Contents select Language > Objects.
    sdf.pdf Scientific Data Formats
  • Scientific Data Formats Overview
  • Common Data Format
  • Hierarchical Data Format - HDF5
  • Hierarchical Data Format
  • HDF-EOS
  • Network Common Data Format
  • PDF IDL Online Help System. From the table of Contents select  Routines (by topic) > HDF, NetCDF, and CDF Formats
    using.pdf Using IDL
  • Introducing IDL
  • Customizing IDL on Motif Systems
  • Importing and Writing Data into Variables
  • Getting Information About Files and Data
  • Graphic Display Essentials
  • Animations
  • Map Projections
  • Signal Processing
  • Mathematics
  • PDF PDF
    widgets.pdf User Interface Programming
  • Overview of User Interface Options
  • Creating Widget Applications
  • Widget Application Techniques
  • Using Widget Buttons
  • Using Draw Widgets
  • Using Property Sheet Widgets
  • Using Table Widgets
  • Using Tab Widgets
  • Using Tree Widgets
  • PDF PDF
    projects.pdf (1) Using IDL Workbench Projects
  • IDL_PATH Management with Projects
  • Project Build Concepts
  • IDL Project Properties
  • IDL Build Properties
  • PDF IDL Online Help System. From the table of Contents select  IDL Environmen> Projects
    iTools_classes_
    Reference.pdf
    (2)
    iTools Object Classes Reference
  • iTools object classes documentation
  • PDF PDF

    NOTES              

    (1) The projects.pdf file is not available from an IDL 8.0 installation. However, this help file may be downloaded separately from the following help article:

    (2) The iTools_classes_Reference.pdf file is not available from an IDL 8.0 or IDL 8.1 installation. However, this help file may be downloaded separately from the following help article:


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