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FITS file plugin V1.04 for the GIMP Peter Kirchgessner, 12-Oct-97
================================== e-mail: pkirchg@aol.com
WWW : http://members.aol.com/pkirchg
Here is the FITS file plugin for the GIMP V 0.99.10 and up.
It is based on a FITS-reading/writing library FitsRW.
This library was designed for the FITS-plug-in, but can also
be used separately.
This plug-in will not work with GIMP V 0.54 !
In the directory
ftp://members.aol.com/pkirchg/pub/gimp
you will find the following files:
fits.txt : this document
fits.tgz : gzipped tarfile with sources and documentation
fits.linux.386.elf.tgz : gzipped tarfile with Linux exectuable
News:
V 1.01:
- Bug with compilation on Irix fixed
V 1.02:
- Bug with saving GRAY-images fixed
V 1.03:
- Parse rc file (changes font for dialogues)
V 1.04:
- no progress bars for non-interactive mode
FITS-reading support
--------------------
The plug-in reads simple FITS images with standard data arrays and
also XTENSION='IMAGE'.
The plug-in supports BITPIX values of 8, 16 and 32.
BITPIX values of -32 and -64 are supported on machines which support
IEEE-floating point format (Linux-386 does).
BLANK or NaN-pixels can be replaced by black or white.
The range of the pixel values kept in the data arrays are automatically
detected and can be scaled automatically.
FITS-files with NAXIS=3 and NAXIS3=2,...,4 can be composed to
GRAYA_IMAGE, RGB_IMAGE and RGBA_IMAGE.
FITS-writing support
--------------------
The plugin supports all GIMP image types on writing. GRAY_IMAGEs are stored
with NAXIS=2, other images are stored with NAXIS=3. NAXIS3 will have values
of 2 (GRAYA_IMAGE), 3 (RGB_IMAGE) or 4 (RGBA_IMAGE).
Installation of executable
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To tell the GIMP about the FITS-file-plugin, copy the fits-executable
to /usr/local/lib/gimp/0.99.x/plug-ins .
Installation from source
------------------------
The FITS-plug-in consists of the files fits.c, fitsrw.c and fitsrw.h.
If you can work with automake, modify the Makefile.am in the plug-ins-
directory:
Add fits to the variable pluginlib_PROGRAMS
and add
fits_SOURCES = fits.c fitsrw.c fitsrw.h
If you dont have automake and you must use the standard Makefile,
look at the occurances of the nlfilt-plug-in. It also depends on
another source megawidget.c and megawidget.h. Add the fits-plug-in
in a similar way.
Suggestions
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Suggestions about the plug-in should be mailed to pkirchg@aol.com