[ome-users] export ics 1.0

[Andrew Patterson]

Hello Barna,

The ics writer code chooses which version of the file to write based on the file extension chosen for the output filename.

If you save as filename.ics a single V2 file is produced "filename.ics".
If you save as filename.ids a two V1 files are produced "filename.ids" & "filename.ics".

Having said that when we tested this using bio-formats from within imagej we could not get the ids version to work.

There is however a workaround.

If you download the bftools package you can perform the conversion with `bfconvert`
https://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/bio-formats5/users/comlinetools/index.html

If you run
./bfconvert yourInputFile outputFile.ics
You get:
-rw-r--r--  1 andrew  andrew  1539962  3 Jul 11:17 outputFile.ics

If you run
./bfconvert yourInputFile outputFile.ids
You get:
-rw-r--r--  1 andrew  andrew      389  3 Jul 11:17 outputFile.ics
-rw-r--r--  1 andrew  andrew  1539573  3 Jul 11:17 outputFile.ids

Hope this helps,

Andrew

On 3 Jul 2014, at 10:34, Dudok Barna <dudok at koki.hu> wrote:

> Hi All, 
> 
> Sorry if this should be obvious, but I searched in vain, I hope I can get some help here...
> I'd like to save images from imagej macro using the Bio-Formats Exporter plugin.
> The output file is in ics 2.0 format, which cannot be read by the software i need to open it with.
> The LOCI Bio-Formats documentation says that ics 1.0 and 2.0 are both supported. How can I save the file in ics 1.0 (.ics, .ids file pair) format?
> Thanks for your help!
> Barna
> 
> Barna Dudok
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> Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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