The iGMT documentation includes a description of the software dealing with installation and its usage, presents some simple example maps, and lists references to the datasets iGMT can process and the sources iGMT is based upon. (You might also want to refer to the iGMT project's Earth Science dataset collection.) A postscript version of this document comes with the full iGMT package. Alternatively, the manual can be downloaded in various formats below. Don't expect fancy prose or that every small detail is up to date. This is especially true for the manual of what-will-be-iGMT-version-1.2.

• HTML:
  • HTML online documentation for what will be iGMT 1.2 as hosted by our server (July 2000) or as a tar-file, 400kB.
  • HTML online documentation for iGMT 1.1 as hosted by our server or as a a tar-file, 400kB.

• Adobe Acrobat PDF files:
  • manual_v1.2.pdf, 533kB, for what will be iGMT1.2 (08/07/01)
  • manual_v1.1.pdf, 470kB, for iGMT1.1

  Also see the makecpt colorschemes comparison chart (PDF) for the colorschemes that come with GMT's makecpt.

• Gzipped Postscript files:
  • manual_v1.2.ps.gz, 690kB, for what will be iGMT 1.2 (08/07/01).
  • manual_v1.1.ps.gz, 1.1MB, for iGMT 1.1.

  Makecpt colorschemes comparison chart (ps.gz).

• LaTeX DVI files (PS figures are missing)
  • manual_v1.2.dvi, 70kB, for what will be iGMT 1.2 (08/07/01).
  • manual_v1.1.dvi, 62kB, for iGMT 1.1.

In addition, you might wish to refer to the article in EOS Transactions.