Download Match! Pre-release Version
On this page you can download the most recent pre-release version of the Match! software.
Please note that this version has not been officially released and may still contain
bugs or other inconsistencies! The
current official version can
be downloaded from here.
The most recent version is 4.0 Build 305 (created July 12, 2024).
In order to update your Match! version 3 installation to this most recent version please perform the following steps:
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If Match! is running, please save any open documents and close the program.
- Please DO NOT uninstall the previous version before installing the new version! Instead, simply
install the new version on top of the existing version. This is important to make sure that your license
file is retained.
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Download the installer file for your platform from below and uncompress ("unzip") it if necessary.
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Make sure that you have administrator privileges on multi-user systems,
then run the installer by double-clicking on it. More details about this topic are given in the
platform-specific "Readme" files that are also available from the Download page.
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Follow the steps in the installer until it has finished, then restart Match!.
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Check whether the update was successful by selecting "About Match!" from
the "Help" menu.
Enhancements compared to current official version
- A new option for selecting the search-match method to be used in batch processing has been added to the "Batch" tab of the "Options" window.
- There is a new option "Switch to 'Selected phases' on selection of first matching phase or PFSM calculation" on the "Graphics" tab of the "Options" window. It toggles the automatic "switching over" to the display of the profile calculated from selected phases.
- A new option "Activate difference plot on selection of first matching phase or PFSM calculation" has been added on the "Graphics" tab of the "Options" window. It toggles the automatic activation of the difference plot.
- The new option "Display phase names in addition to formula sum in pie charts graphics" has been added on the "Quant. analysis" page of the "Options" window.
- The option "Switch to 'Composition' display (pie charts) after selection of the first/second phase" has been removed from the "Batch" tab of the "Options" window, because a more or less equivalent option "Automatically switch over to the pie chart graphics after performing a quantitative analysis" is already available on the "Quant. analysis" tab.
- The "Selected phases" and "Exp. peak data" options on the "Graphics" tab of the "Options" window have swapped their positions.
- When the first phase is selected as "matching", Match! now automatically displays the profile calculated from selected phases as well as the corresponding difference plot in the pattern graphics (see new option above).
- The "Background" chapter in the Match! online help has been reworked.
- The new version has been verified to be compatible with all upcoming release 2025 ICDD PDF database products.
- Several bugs have been fixed:
- Some bugs that might have caused Match! to crash in certain situations (e.g. when loading documents or performing "Undo" operations) have been fixed.
- Due to a bug, the accuracy of the determined peak positions was reduced during peak searching if the peaks were very broad (FWHM > 2.0 degrees 2theta).
- A bug causing the diffraction pattern graphics not to be erased completely at "File / New" has been fixed.
- The automatic selection of matching phases did not work if profile fitting search-match was applied.
- The name of the selected restraints preset was not stored along with user-defined option settings on the "Batch" tab of the "Options" window.
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