The Igor Pro Manual
The Igor Pro manual ships in PDF format with Igor Pro. You can access it via Igor's Help menu.
The PDF manual is also included with the Igor Pro demo.
A printed manual set consisting of six volumes totaling about 2,000 pages can be purchased from lulu.com.
You can also view the Igor Pro manual via the web using the links on this page.
NOTE: Links between PDF files will not work unless you are using Adobe Reader to view PDF files (details here).
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Volume I - Getting Started
Introduction To Igor Pro
Guided Tour of Igor Pro
Volume II - User's Guide Part 1
Getting Help
The Command Window
Experiments, Files and Folders
Windows
Waves
Multidimensional Waves
Numeric and String Variables
Data Folders
Importing and Exporting Data
Dialogs Features
Tables
Graphs
Category Plots
Contour Plots
Image Plots
Page Layouts
Volume III - User's Guide Part 2
Notebooks
Annotations
Drawing
Embedding and Subwindows
Exporting Graphics (Macintosh)
Exporting Graphics (Windows)
Analysis
Curve Fitting
Signal Processing
Analysis of Functions
Image Processing
Statistics
Procedure Windows
Control Panels
Platform-Related Issues
Miscellany
Preferences
Volume IV - Programming
Working with Commands
Programming Overview
User-Defined Functions
Macros
User-Defined Menus
Interacting With the User
Programming Techniques
Debugging
Dependencies
Advanced Programming
Igor Reference
Index (requires Adobe Reader - see note)
About Links Between PDF Files
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On Macintosh, run Adobe Reader and choose Preferences from the Adobe Reader menu. Click Internet in the Categories list and then check the 'Display PDF in Browser Using' checkbox.
On Windows, run Adobe Reader and choose Preferences from the Edit menu. Click Internet in the Categories list and then check the 'Display PDF in Browser' checkbox.
This issue with links is a web issue only - it does not affect the version of the PDF manual that is included with Igor Pro.
Last updated: Monday, August 10, 2009