User Guide
Welcome to the user guide for PV‑WAVE! This manual explains how to use PV‑WAVE to perform many kinds of visual data analysis (VDA)—2D and 3D plotting, image processing, volume rendering, and mapping techniques are discussed. In addition, this manual discusses how to manage your PV‑WAVE session, use color to enhance displayed data, create tables of data, and incorporate date/time data into your plots.
The topics in this tutorial are organized as follows:
Chapter 2: Getting Started: UNIX—Discusses some of PV‑WAVE’s basic operations under UNIX, such as starting and stopping the software, using the online Help and documentation systems, journaling, and saving and restoring sessions.
Chapter 10: Using Fonts—Discusses how to use and format software, or vector-drawn, fonts. This chapter also discusses the difference between software and hardware fonts and how to choose between them.