Specialized software has been developed to calculate the absorption factor for the infinite‐cylinder transmission Debye–Scherrer geometry (including inclined beams) to be used with two‐dimensional area powder pattern registration. The diffracted beams are defined by the direction cosines in the laboratory Cartesian coordinate system. Modern two‐dimensional area detectors have a large number of pixels, so an interpolation is made by the triangulation procedure to save computer time. The absorption correction is allowed for so that the intensity in each pixel is reduced on the same scale and the final diffraction‐angle‐dependent intensity, I(2), does not require any further absorption correction.