[ome-users] Release of OMERO.figure 1.1.0

[Jay Copeland]

Hello Will,

Does this new version work with Omero 5.0?

Jay

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> On Apr 20, 2015, at 8:33 AM, William Moore <will at lifesci.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Today I am pleased to announce the release of OMERO.figure 1.1.0.
> 
> This release has a number of new features.
> 
> The full announcement, including video demonstration of the new features is available at
> http://will-moore.github.io/figure/2015/04/20/release-1.1.0.html
> 
> 
> More details below:
> 
> Multiple page figures:
> 
>  - Under File > Page Setup you can choose up to 10 pages for the figure.
>  - Pages are laid out in a grid on the canvas and image panels can be dragged across the canvas onto the chosen page.
>  - Export will generate a multi-page PDF document or multiple TIFF images.
> 
> Crop to region or ROI:
> 
>  - A crop button beside the panel zoom slider launches a crop dialog.
>  - The crop region can be manually chosen by dragging to select an area of the displayed image.
>  - Alternatively, existing Rectangular ROIs on the image will be loaded from OMERO and can be picked as a crop region.
> 
> Set dpi of panel images:
> 
>  - On the 'Info' tab, you can set a minimum resolution for image panels when they are embedded
>    within the PDF figure on export. For example, 300 dpi is required by many journals.
>  - The Info tab will then display the 'current' dpi in the figure alongside the export dpi.
>  - When the figure is exported as PDF, the resolution of these panels will be boosted if it is
>    less than the chosen export dpi.
>  - Additional pixels will be created in the image and the data resampled using a bicubic filter. 
> 
> Export of figures as TIFFs:
> 
>  - You can now choose to export the figure as a TIFF image at 300 dpi.
>  - This matches the submission format for many journals and allows easy embedding in presentations.
>  - Images are resampled using a bicubic filter to match the final figure dpi.
>  - Multi-page figures will be exported as multiple TIFFs in a zip file.
>  - A PDF info page is also included if your export is in a zip.
> 
> Export of panel images alongside figure:
> 
>  - An additional export option allows the constituant images within a figure to be exported alongside
>    the figure as TIFFs.
>  - For each image panel, the full sized TIFF of the image is exported, as well as the cropped and rotated TIFF
>    that is embedded within the PDF or TIFF figure.
>  - If images are resampled to increase their dpi, they will be saved before and after resampling.
>  - This provides greater clarity as to the processing steps used in generating the figure and the TIFF images
>    could also be used for creating figures in other applications.
> 
> Figure legend:
> 
>  - Legends can be added to figures and will be included in the info PDF page when the figure is exported.
>  - You can use Markdown syntax to add simple formatting, such as bold and italics. Other formatting is
>    supported in the web view, but may not be displayed properly in the exported PDF info page.
> 
> Other features:
> 
>  - When multiple panels are selected, they can be automatically resized to "Align their Magnification" such
>    that features appear the same size in all panels.
>  - Labels can be added to Scalebars to indicate their length.
>  - A color picker allows any color to be chosen for image channels and labels.
>  - Units support: If used with OMERO 5.1, the pixel size units in imported images will be used for scale bar labels.
>  - Unicode support: Figures can now contain special characters.
>  - Figure export errors are now handled with an error button which displays the error in a new browser tab. 
> 
> Bug fixes:
> 
>  - Fix label & scalebar colors in PDF figure export
> 
> 
> As always, any feedback welcome!
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
>  Will.
> 
> 
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