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2010.04.30 18:23 "Re: Flexible Mode", by Chris Cox
<sarcasm> Are you kidding? The intern writing their file format code would never stoop to reading documentation! </sarcasm> Seriously, even some very large, well known companies can't seem to follow the spec. Chris On 4/29/10 8:30 PM, "Toby Thain" <toby@telegraphics.com.au> wrote: > > On 30-Apr-10, at 1:09 PM, Dmitry Fedorov wrote: > >>> Would it work for you to simply reset the incorrect tags with >>> tiffset to >>> make the files compliant? >> >> This is not suitable for many reasons, 1) one is that there are MANY >> microscopes producing hundreds of large 5D images (at least 200MB a >> file) on a daily basis 2) asking people to run some tool on their >> images prior to operation is not feasible, we already struggle >> offering easy-to-use alternative open source software 3) pure >> knowledge that somebody will modify their file makes biologists >> shiver, 4) these changes may make the file unreadable by Zeiss's >> proprietary software and 5) the palette is just one of many examples >> of incompatibilities (Zeiss is not the only producer of these images). > > > Sounds like some equipment manufacturers need to Google "TIFF > specification". > > --Toby > > >> >> Dmitry >> -- >> __________________________________ >> >> Dmitry Fedorov Levit >> <dima@dimin.net> <http://www.dimin.net/> >> Skype: dima_fedorov >> Google: fedorov >> __________________________________ >> >> Center for Bio-Image Informatics: >> <http://www.bioimage.ucsb.edu/> >> >> Vision Research Lab, Electrical and Computer Engineering >> Image Registration: >> <http://vision.ece.ucsb.edu/> >> <http://vision.ece.ucsb.edu/registration/demo/> >> <http://regima.dpi.inpe.br/> >> >> University of California, Santa Barbara >> _________________________________ >> >> DIMIN Viewer n5: >> <http://www.dimin.net/software/viewer/> >> __________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> Tiff mailing list: Tiff@lists.maptools.org >> http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff >> http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tiff mailing list: Tiff@lists.maptools.org > http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff > http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/