Viewing Images
- To view diffraction images you may use the icon to launch the Diffraction Frame Viewer
- Or simply type
imgview [filename]
- To view the header information stored in an image file, type
imginfo [fileneame]
Viewing Images on your PC
Diffraction images collected at CMCF (.img files) are TIFF-formatted, but not all image viewing applications will be able to open them. Those applications that can (such as
Irfanview) will not display the images properly.
The CCP4 image display program, idiffdisp, runs under Windows, but requires the download of the entire 500 MB CCP4 Windows package.
Alternatively, you can download the CMCF Image Viewer for Windows (13.5 MB). Unzip the zip file to any convenient folder (the zip password is CMCF) and run imageviewer2.exe (displayed simply as imageviewer2 if extensions are hidden). Note that the size of diffraction images will make them difficult to view on screens with a resolution of 1024x768 or smaller; please use a larger resolution when running the program. (You may require MSVCR71.DLL, the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 runtime, available here.)