Re: [Gimp-user] Opening uncompressed NASA image files in GIMP

[Rick Kline <rick kline ms>]

Perfect, thanks, Partha.
I saw the cp command and thought, why can’t I just drag it there myself?

Rick
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> On Dec 3, 2020, at 8:12 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com> wrote:
>
> If you show the folder structure in Finder, you can use finder. Otherwise use the cp command.
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 7:22 PM Rick Kline <rick kline ms <mailto:rick kline ms>> wrote:
> The image is a closeup of a scorched portion of the Mars Rover Opportunity’s heat shield that was burned 
> during its trip through the Martian atmosphere.
>
> Thanks for the info. I’ll try to get a working plugin now that I’ve found the plugin directory at 
> rickkline/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins
>
> Do I need to use the cp command or can I copy it in Finder?
>
> Thanks.
> Rick
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> > On Dec 3, 2020, at 12:43 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca <mailto:kevin ve3syb ca>> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-12-03 12:24 a.m., Rick Kline wrote:
> > > Like magic: changed file type to .data
> > > GIMP opens with width, height, offset (which I ignore, because I can’t find a proper header descriptor) 
> > > and image type.
> > > Set height and width to 1024 and 1024, file type to Gray unsigned 16-bit Little Endian, and it opens as 
> > > desired.
> >
> > I downloaded the source for the 2.4.116 version of the PDS plug-in for GIMP. To build it for Linux (I 
> > don't have access to a Mac) I needed to comment out the include of the gimpcompat.h in the pds.c file.
> >
> > I told gimp 2.10 to load the 1p157746813eff40b8p2363l3m1.img that you mentioned as a sample. It loaded 
> > the image up right away without asking me for any information. I did not have to change the file 
> > selection or tell GIMP what type of file I'm loading.
> >
> > I have no idea what I'm looking at in the sample image but the plug-in works. What I have found is that 
> > GIMP 2.10 hangs when trying to view the image properties.
> >
> > FYI, in the pds.c file that is in version 2.4.116 of the plug-in it says it "Loads files of the NASA PDS 
> > image format" with supported file extensions: img, imq, pds, edr, bb1, bb2, bb3, bb4, ir1, ir2, ir3, n07, 
> > n15, sur, sun, red, grn, blu, sgr, vio, qub, or lbl.
> >
> > -- 
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Kevin.
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