Re: scale bar and profiles plotting

Posted by Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on Jan 31, 2010; 2:53am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/scale-bar-and-profiles-plotting-tp3688713p3688719.html

On Jan 30, 2010, at 4:19 AM, Gabriel Landini wrote:

> On Thursday 28 January 2010, you wrote:
>> In the current version of ImageJ (1.43o), you can either save a flattened
>> RGB version of the image, or move the selections in the overlay to the ROI
>> Manager (Image>Overlay>To ROI Manager) and save them using More>>Save. In
>> ImageJ 1.43p, overlays will be saved in the TIFF header.
>
> That is very useful. Can I suggest this (not sure how easy to implement it
> would be): can one store any current ROIs in field tags?
>
> I noted in the daily build that when there are overlays stored and one opens
> the image these are hidden.
> I though that it would be really handy to have a short string in the image
> info bar, where it is shown the size and pixels, bit depth and size in bytes,
> to add something like "overlays" and  "ROIs" if they are existent but hidden?
>
> Or an option to automatically "Show overlays when opening"?

The 1.43p daily build saves both ROIs and overlays in the TIFF header.

-wayne