6/30/98

Dear all,

does anyone know of a graphics package that can take several separate

digital image files and montage them on a single page ready for printing?

Thanks,

Mark Munro

mark_munro@bio-rad.com

Hi, I use IP Lab Spectrum to montage micrographs

togather. It's a commercial software from Scanalytics.

I have used Photoshop but it's slower.



Bob Underwood

Derm Imageing Center

U of Wash.

underwoo@u.washington.edu

Compix software can montage the images to a vertical or

horizontal strip or a best fit rectangle.



Patty Jansma Tel:520-621-6671

plj@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu

Arizona Research Labs Division of Neurobiology

University of Arizona

Mark, try the imtools package from the SDSC group. Specifically, it

contains a program alled imstoryboard that allows you to make a montage of

many images into a single file ready for printing. You have control over

spacing between images, between images and the edges, the background

color, etc. Another way would be to use the netpbm package. Using pnmcat

one can concatenate multiple images into a single image. As this one works

with standard in and output, quite possibly one could simply redirect the

output of it straight to the printer, as in:



pnmcat pnmfile1 pnmfile2 ... | lp (or lpr)



Hope this helps.



Jaap



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Biochemistry, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030

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Dear Mark,



Our imaging database, ElectroImages, can montage images easily and with

great flexibility.

ElectroImages also allows the user to place text captions under images.

Captions can include title, date, source, extensive descriptions,

filename, filepath, and up to 6 user-definable fields.

You can also easily print a footer and header to give your page a finished

look.



Please contact me off-list and I will send you our trial copy of this

program.



Matt Irwin

ElectroImage, Inc.

277 Northern Blvd.

Suite 101

Great Neck, NY 11021



Phone: 516-773-4305

Fax: 516-773-2955

E-mail: sales@electroimage.com

Website: www.electroimage.com



(Check out our digital imaging tutorial on our website)

For a GENERALLY USEFUL package which can do things in a nice way, try

downloading a trial version of Corel Xara! 2.0 from:



http://xaraxone.i-us.com/



I have only recently acquired this, so I haven't tried out all its

functions, but I have started converting some of my black-and-white TEM

images to duotone using this package.



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AutoMatch is a public domain macro written for the public domain

software NIH Image. It is described in an article by Swidbert R. Ott,

Microscopy Research and Technique 38:335-339(1997). The montage is

automated. The article indicates that the software is available via FTP

from zippy.nimh.nih.gov/pub/nih-image/contrib/



Everett Ramer

Federal Energy Technology Center

Everett.Ramer@fetc.doe.gov