[ome-devel] "unknown format" error

[Tomasz Macura]

Dear John,

Actually we support more than 3 formats in CVS. The new ones will be 
released with 2.2.2 (TIFF, STK, LSM, DICOM, MethamorphHTD, GEL, DV).

Its highly likely that jpeg inside of tiff will work because we use 
libtiff to actually read the pixels and I think libtiff reads jpeg 
compressed tiff images.
However, I don't have any jpeg inside of tiff images so I can't test to 
be sure.

If you have trouble with importing any images that are important for 
you feel free to let us know  (i.e. please file a Bugzilla report and 
attach the image you want to import).
Once we know how much of a problem it is we (me probably) will either 
fix it or tell you why we won't.

 >  I had always thought of TIF as an odd (Mac) format, so figured 
nothing would work with them.
Microscopy software/hardware usually spits out images in (A) their 
proprietary format (B) other big-brand proprietary formats or (C) TIFF 
images (D) OME XML Image Format.
  Often (A) and (B) are extensions / corruptions of (C). So TIFFs are 
all over microscopy.

Reason (A) TIFF format allows to store Meta Information tags (want to 
see: get libtiff and do tiffdump or tiffinfo) that stores a lot of 
exciting info about the instrumentation and
imaging environment, sample etc.  (B) TIFF format supports loss-less 
compression. I am not sure about gif, png, or jpeg but I think they 
lack (A).

Glad to help,

Tom

On Sep 7, 2004, at 2:09 AM, johnkjunk at juno.com wrote:

>
> Tomasz,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> I tried to post a follow-up message the same day, but failed (webmail 
> timeout, as I recall).  I had dug into the code and found that it 
> accepted TIF, XML, and three other formats I hadn't heard of.  Once I 
> got images in, I found that the web viewer sends a scalable vector 
> format I didn't have software for (yet).  (I chose the Adobe viewer.)
>
> The slide scanners around here do generate JPEG inside of TIF.  I had 
> always thought of TIF as an odd (Mac) format, so figured nothing would 
> work with them.  I've only been here since the beginning of August, so 
> don't know much about microscopy yet.
>
> Since the email archive is kind of public, I decided to use a "junk" 
> email account, since I expect some search engine will pick it up and 
> start sending spam.  "John" is my real name.  I'm interning at Dako, 
> so don't have an email or a phone.
>
> John Kalstrom
> DakoCytomation
>