imageviewer

Imageviewer

Fable imageviewer is a java-based program to display images and do simple treatment on them e.g. rocking curves. Imageviewer has been developed to fulfill the need to have an image display program in Java to allow users to look at their images without leaving the user interfaces of preprocessor, grainspotter, etc. Imageviewer is inspired by [fabian] written in Python. Imageviewer uses the same Python module [fabio] as fabian to read image files. This avoids code duplication and means imageviewer reads the same file formats as fabian. It also means Python and fabio have to be installed or packaged as part of imageviewer for it to work. Imageviewer communicates with Python via jep?. Imageviewer is still in its beginnings but does have most of what fabian offers. Imageviewer can be downloaded from the sourceforge download area.

Screenshots

Imageviewer about window on MacOSX 10.5 :

Imageviewer displaying strain diffraction images and plot of stress in header on MacOSX 10.5 :

Imageviewer displaying tortoise and hare sample files :

Installing

To install Imageviewer all you need to do is unzip the fable.imageviewer in a directory of your choice. We will refer to this directory as $(IMAGEVIEWER) from here on. You need to install Python for Imageviewer to be able to read files. Here some notes on what to do per platform :

Ubuntu Linux

Install the following packages : python2.5

To do this simply type the following : sudo apt-get python2.5

Use the imageviewer script to run Imageviewer :

$(IMAGEVIEWER)/run_imageviewer.sh

Other Linux

Use your package manager to install python and then do the same.

Windows

Install Python 2.5.

Double click on run_imageviewer.bat

MacOSX

MacOSX support has been discontinued until we have some MacOSX users again. The recipe for the last version released was :

Install python2.5, numpy and PIL from the MacPython website e.g. :

http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/index.html

Python 2.5 : http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/dmg/python-2.5-macosx.dmg
Numpy package : http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/dmg/numpy-1.0.3.1-py2.5-macosx10.4-2007-08-27.dmg
PIL package : http://pythonmac.org/packages/py25-fat/dmg/PIL-1.1.6-py2.5-macosx10.4-2007-05-18.dmg

Then either :

(1) install fabio on your macosx (needs XCode to be installed) from :

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82044

OR

(2) copy the fabio precompiled installation from

$(IMAGEVIEWER)/fable.imageviewer/plugins/fabio_1_0_0/lib/macosx/* to the local python site-packages directory e.g.
/Library/Frameworks/Python/framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages

OR

(3) add this directory $(IMAGEVIEWER)/fable.imageviewer/plugins/fabio_1_0_0/lib/macosx/ to $PYTHONPATH

Double click on the imageviewer.app

Questions

Send questions and bug reports to fable at sourceforge.net or use the imageview tracker on sf.net/projects/fable.