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# HDFView User's Guide

Version 2.6
January 2010

This document is a user's guide on how to use HDFView. For information on implementing an HDFView module, please read A User's Guide on How to Implement HDFView Modules

HDFView is a graphic utility designed for viewing and editing the contents of HDF4 and HDF5 files. This document provides the following information:

- User instructions for HDFView
- A brief discussion of the HDF object model (Details of the HDF object model are available from HDF Object Package.)

## Table of Contents

- Chapter 1: Introduction

- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 About This Release
- 1.3 Current Features
  - 1.3.1 Browsing Features
  - 1.3.2 Editing Features
- 1.4 Limitations/Known Problems
- 1.5 Further Information

- Chapter 2: Getting Started
  - 2.1 The Main Window
  - 2.2 Opening a File
  - 2.3 Tree View of File Hierarchy
  - 2.4 Status Information
  - 2.5 Viewing HDF Metadata
  - 2.6 Selecting GUI Modules
- Chapter 3: HDF5 Data Objects
  - 3.1 Overview
  - 3.2 The HDF Object Package
  - 3.3 Class Hierarchy
  - 3.4 Using the HDF Object Package
- Chapter 4: The Tree Viewer
  - 4.1 Overview
  - 4.2 Tree Structure
  - 4.3 View Data Content
  - 4.4 Display Metadata and Attributes
  - 4.5 Edit File and File Structure
    - 4.5.1 Create and Save File
    - 4.5.2 Add and Delete Object
    - 4.5.3 Copy and Paste Object
    - 4.5.4 Add, Delete and Modify Attribute
- Chapter 5: Table Viewer
  - 5.1 Open Dataset
  - 5.2 Subset and Dimension Selection
    - 5.2.1 Dimension Size
    - 5.2.2 Three or More Dimensions
    - 5.2.3 Swap Dimension and Data Transpose
    - 5.2.4 Compound Dataset Options
  - 5.3 Display a Column/Row Line Plot
  - 5.4 Change Data Value
  - 5.5 Save Data Values to a Text File
  - 5.6 Import Data from a Text File
- Chapter 6: Image Viewer
  - 6.1 Display a 2-D or 3-D Image
    - 6.1.1 Indexed Image (8-Bit)
    - 6.1.2 True Color Image
  - 6.2 Zoom/Flip/Contour Image
  - 6.3 View and Modify Image Palette/Values
  - 6.4 Show Histogram of Pixel Values
  - 6.5 Import JPEG, GIF, PNG, or BMP Image to HDF4/5
  - 6.6 Save HDF Image to JPEG, GIF, PNG, or BMP File
- Chapter 7: Text Viewer

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