I suspect that the ICDD-JCPDS PDF-4 format is not public, but I am not
certain on this. John Faber at the ICDD is the person to contact.
Certainly the ICDD wants to keep tighter control on the PDF-4, since
that is leased year-by-year, so I imagine they would not want to see it
be open. There is commercial and ICDD windows software for the PDF-4,
but I am not aware of anything else.
As far as non-windows software for the ICDD PDF-2 database goes, there
is a fair amount of older VAX code that could be ported, with varying
degrees of effort needed, but the only open and working code that I am
aware of is the PDF-2 search/display software now included in the CMPR
program (see link below), which runs in Linux, Mac (OS X), SGI (
probably all other unixes) and, oh yes, Windows.
Brian
Friedrich W. Karau wrote:
Dear colleagues,
does someone know, if the database format of the the new PDF-4
Database, is public, and if there is a database access tool for
LINUX/UNIX systems?
thank you in advance,
Friedrich
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