Flatten Overlay Font Problem

[Paul Grimm-2]

Hi Group
I am hoping for help on a small but irritating issue.

I use the particle analyzer to generate masks of thresholded selections with numbering.

snip...
"run("Analyze Particles...", "size=80-40000 circularity=0.70-1.00 show=Masks display add");"

I want to copy the mask with numbers and then past it to another image. Simply copying doesn't copy the numbers (only the mask) so I use the Image>Overlay>Flatten command. However, when I  do, the font of the numbers shrinks to where the numbers are impossible to read. I have tried changing the font (Edit>Options>Fonts) but that doesn't work.

Anybody have an answer?

(Macintosh, OS 10.6.4 running ImageJ 1.44d, 64 bit (but has the same issue on 32 bit)

Thanks for your help!
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Paul C. Grimm
Professor of Pediatrics
Dept of Pediatric Nephrology
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Stanford University School of Medicine
G306, MC 5208
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5208
USA

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[Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E]]

On Sep 23, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Paul Grimm wrote:

> Hi Group
> I am hoping for help on a small but irritating issue.
>
> I use the particle analyzer to generate masks of thresholded selections with numbering.
>
> snip...
> "run("Analyze Particles...", "size=80-40000 circularity=0.70-1.00 show=Masks display add");"
>
> I want to copy the mask with numbers and then past it to another image. Simply copying doesn't copy the numbers (only the mask) so I use the Image>Overlay>Flatten command. However, when I  do, the font of the numbers shrinks to where the numbers are impossible to read. I have tried changing the font (Edit>Options>Fonts) but that doesn't work.
>
> Anybody have an answer?

Try using Plugins>Utilities>Capture Image instead of Image>Overlay>Flatten.

-wayne

[Paul Grimm-2]

Hi Wayne
Thank you for your advice. That is exactly what I have been doing as a work around.
I analyze thousands of images in batchmode. So the program has to "setBatchMode("exit and display");"  to get the screencapture and then go back into batchmode to continue. Just slows things down so I was hoping someone might have a different answer.
This does the job and it is great software!

Paul
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Paul C. Grimm
Professor of Pediatrics
Dept of Pediatric Nephrology
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Stanford University School of Medicine
G306, MC 5208
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305-5208
USA
phone   [phone]
fax       [phone]


"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity." - Occam



On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] wrote:

> On Sep 23, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Paul Grimm wrote:
>
>> Hi Group
>> I am hoping for help on a small but irritating issue.
>>
>> I use the particle analyzer to generate masks of thresholded selections with numbering.
>>
>> snip...
>> "run("Analyze Particles...", "size=80-40000 circularity=0.70-1.00 show=Masks display add");"
>>
>> I want to copy the mask with numbers and then past it to another image. Simply copying doesn't copy the numbers (only the mask) so I use the Image>Overlay>Flatten command. However, when I  do, the font of the numbers shrinks to where the numbers are impossible to read. I have tried changing the font (Edit>Options>Fonts) but that doesn't work.
>>
>> Anybody have an answer?
>
> Try using Plugins>Utilities>Capture Image instead of Image>Overlay>Flatten.
>
> -wayne