[ome-users] dm4 format

[Dr Gregory Jefferis]

A brief comment on this thread seems in order since I am the original 
author of both the DM3_Reader plugin and HandleExtraFileTypes!

On 29 Mar 2017, at 17:43, Morgan, David Gene wrote:

> With regard to the DM3_Reader, are you referring to this plugin 
> available from
>
> the ImageJ website [1]? If so, this plugin is managed completely 
> separately from
>
> Bio-Formats and we do not know if it is actively maintained.

The canonical source for the standalone DM3 reader distributed with Fiji 
is here:

https://github.com/fiji/IO/blob/master/src/main/java/sc/fiji/io/DM3_Reader.java

I have not received any bug reports for a while, so it has not been 
updated since 22 Feb 2013. I believe this plugin may have slightly 
different support for a few unusual DM3 image types (e.g. EELS spectra?) 
compared with the bioformats reader. As mentioned earlier it does not 
support the DM4 format – and it is rather unlikely that I will spend 
time to support this given the existence of bioformats.

Best wishes,

Greg.

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