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Version 2.7
February 2011

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 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 Show Bit Values
  • 4.5 Display Metadata and Attributes
  • 4.6 Edit File and File Structure
    • 4.6.1 Create and Save File
    • 4.6.2 Setting the Library version bounds
    • 4.6.3 Add and Delete Object
    • 4.6.4 Copy and Paste Object
    • 4.6.5 Move Object
    • 4.6.6 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
  • 5.7 Dataset storing references
  • 5.7.1 Dataset Storing Object References
  • 5.7.2 Dataset Storing Dataset Region References
  • 5.8 Sava Data Values to a Binary File
  • 5.9 Import Data from a Binary 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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