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Re: Bioformats update creates exceptions for dm4 files

Posted by Melissa Linkert-2 on Aug 13, 2015; 1:24pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Bioformats-update-creates-exceptions-for-dm4-files-tp5014008p5014011.html

Hi Alex,

> Can you, please, correct this bug? Or if it is impossible can you,
> please, tell me how to install old Bioformats version to Fiji
> manually. With ImageJ it is easy, but Fiji seems to have more
> complicated system.
>
> I have sent thsi bug report to Bioformats list as well.

Please see the reply to the same post on the ome-users mailing list:

http://lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk/pipermail/ome-users/2015-August/005573.html

As noted there, this problem is expected to be fixed in the upcoming
5.1.4 release of Bio-Formats.

Regards,
-Melissa

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 08:31:06AM +0100, Aleksandr Mironov wrote:

> Dear Listers,
>
> We are using Fiji quite a lot in our Facility. Until recently it was
> able to read dm4 files from Gatan (even if this option is not
> mentioned in documentation). However, after the update it became
> impossible - instead of opening dm4 file Fiji produces the list of
> exceptions:
>
> begin-----------------
>
> (Fiji Is Just) ImageJ 2.0.0-rc-34/1.50a; Java 1.8.0_51 [64-bit];
> Windows 7 6.1; 35MB of 6103MB (<1%)
>
> java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "0 . 0"
>
> at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:2043)
>
>     at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.parseDouble(FloatingDecimal.java:110)
>
>     at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:538)
>
>     at java.lang.Double.valueOf(Double.java:502)
>
>     at loci.formats.in.GatanReader.parseTags(GatanReader.java:506)
>
>     at loci.formats.in.GatanReader.parseTags(GatanReader.java:468)
>
>     at loci.formats.in.GatanReader.parseTags(GatanReader.java:468)
>
>     at loci.formats.in.GatanReader.parseTags(GatanReader.java:468)
>
>     at loci.formats.in.GatanReader.parseTags(GatanReader.java:468)
>
>     at loci.formats.in.GatanReader.initFile(GatanReader.java:197)
>
>     at loci.formats.FormatReader.setId(FormatReader.java:1426)
>
>     at loci.plugins.in.ImportProcess.initializeFile(ImportProcess.java:505)
>
>     at loci.plugins.in.ImportProcess.execute(ImportProcess.java:143)
>
>     at loci.plugins.in.Importer.showDialogs(Importer.java:137)
>
>     at loci.plugins.in.Importer.run(Importer.java:75)
>
>     at loci.plugins.LociImporter.run(LociImporter.java:78)
>
>     at ij.IJ.runUserPlugIn(IJ.java:212)
>
>     at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:176)
>
>     at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:165)
>
>     at HandleExtraFileTypes.openImage(HandleExtraFileTypes.java:499)
>
>     at HandleExtraFileTypes.run(HandleExtraFileTypes.java:72)
>
>     at ij.IJ.runUserPlugIn(IJ.java:212)
>
>     at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:176)
>
>     at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:165)
>
>     at ij.io.Opener.openWithHandleExtraFileTypes(Opener.java:486)
>
>     at ij.io.Opener.openImage(Opener.java:360)
>
>     at ij.io.Opener.openImage(Opener.java:239)
>
>     at ij.io.Opener.open(Opener.java:106)
>
>     at ij.io.Opener.openAndAddToRecent(Opener.java:288)
>
>     at ij.plugin.DragAndDrop.openFile(DragAndDrop.java:176)
>
>     at ij.plugin.DragAndDrop.run(DragAndDrop.java:152)
>
>     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
>
> end--------------------
>
>
>
> I have tried to trace what is the reason and it seems that it is the
> updated version of BioFormats plugin.
>
> All versions before 5.1.0-m4 were fine to be able to read dm4 files
> (if you install Bioformats plugin to ImageJ). Any version from
> 5.1.0-m4 upwards (newest is 5.1.3, I believe) produces the list of
> exceptions and do not open dm4 files anymore.
>
> I have uploaded the test image I have been using to
> http://qa.openmicroscopy.org.uk/qa/upload/
>
> The name of the file is:
> T2DM_3VBSED_roi_01_slice_0001.dm4
>
>
> Can you, please, correct this bug? Or if it is impossible can you,
> please, tell me how to install old Bioformats version to Fiji
> manually. With ImageJ it is easy, but Fiji seems to have more
> complicated system.
>
> I have sent thsi bug report to Bioformats list as well.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Alex
> --
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> Senior Experimental Officer
> D.1527, M.Smith Building
> EM Core Facility, Faculty of Life Sciences
> University of Manchester
> Oxford Road
> Manchester
> M13 9PT
> UK
>
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