Saving little-endian 16 bit TIFF / "save-string-to-file" macro command

Posted by Niels Jensen-2 on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Saving-little-endian-16-bit-TIFF-save-string-to-file-macro-command-tp3696133.html

Hi,

I am using a program (BD AttoVision) that can only read 16 bit TIFF files in the "little endian" TIFF format starting with "49 49 2A 00" ("II*."). However, ImageJ saves all files in the "big endian" TIFF format starting with "4D 4D 00 2a" ("MM.*"). This essentially nukes all my images if I open and save them from ImageJ.

Please could you add an option to save little endian" TIFF files and/or to preserve the format.

I use ImageJ macros to process a large number of these TIFF files and I was trying to figure out a workaround to the problem described above (it would have been as simple as using a regexp to switch bytes). Unfortunately, there is currently no ways to handle binary files (the "print(file, string)" command changes special characters such as newlines).

Please could you also implement binary file support (e.g. a simple "save-string-to-file" command) to the macro language.

Thanks,

Niels


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