> > Unless the online documentation is outdated, NIH Image does not
>support more
>> recent compressions such as .jpg or .gif, in which case, one would probably
>> need GraphicConverter to utilize these now common formats rather than the
>> beautiful but space-intensive .tiff. Otherwise, it looks pretty amazing for
>> freeware.
>
>That's because NIH-Image is designed as a scientific image processing
>and analysis tool...you _never_ throw away pixels in such images..you're
>throwing out data.
>
>At the height of the anti-Apple bigotry around here, we had one new
>faculty member lose months worth of time trying to adapt from her Macs
>and NIH-Image to using Photoshop and Windows to analyzie her
>photomicrographs...stupid stupid stuff
>
>NIH-Image is one reason for the disproportionate representation of macs
>in the life sciences.
A URL would be nice :)
thx
paul
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