Re: opening of 64-bit TIFF files

Posted by Johannes-P. Koch on Dec 27, 2008; 3:43pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/opening-of-64-bit-TIFF-files-tp3694176p3694179.html

Thanks to all the replies, I am sorry for answering such late!

Anyway, the Bioformats plugin helped a lot. With this plugin I was able to
read the file format, which is indeed Bigtiff (64-bit off-sets).

Thanks again and happy new year.

Johannes


On Mo, 22.12.2008, 23:19, Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi Johannes,
>
> If you mean the file offsets are 64bit, you are presumably using the
> BigTIFF
> format:
> http://www.aperio.com/bigtiff/
>
> Bio-Formats supports BigTIFF, so please give it a try if you have not
> already:
> http://www.loci.wisc.edu/ome/formats.html
>
> If Bio-Formats cannot read your file, we would be interested in fixing the
> problem. Let us know, and I will send you our FTP information off-list.
>
> -Curtis
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Mario Emmenlauer
> <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Johannes-P. Koch wrote:
>>
>>> I saved quite a big file (~3GB) in a 64-bit TIFF file format. My ImageJ
>>> gives an error response. Does anybody have written an input plugin
>>> making
>>> this format available for opening in ImageJ? Or does such a plugin
>>> exist at
>>> all?
>>>
>>
>> Just to be sure, you are saying your data is 64bit, or your file-offsets
>> are 64bit? I'm just asking, because you mention the file is huge (>2GB).
>> >2GB tiff is a problem to some tiff-readers, and >4GB is a problem to
>> most tiff-readers.
>>
>> But that is not what you mean, you mean your image data (inside the tiff
>> file structure) is 64bit?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>   Mario
>>
>
>

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