Windows X86_64 Preview

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Congratulations!  You've successfully installed a beta release of MicroView for 64-bit Windows.  Thank-you for your interest in this software, and for taking the time to try it out.  We value your opinion of this software, and would like to capture community interest in our continuing to develop MicroView, so don't hesitate to contact us with bug reports, questions, complaints or to discuss our future plans with MicroView.  In particular, we encourage you to share your thoughts and comments on our Google+ page.

Support

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First and foremost, this release represents a beta snapshot of the original opensource version of  MicroView.  It doesn't contain the same feature list as the commercially supported versions. It represents, rather, a continuation of the basic viewer available on the original MicroView sourceforge site.  This software is provided "as-is", and while our plan is to progressively improve the quality and capability of the image viewer to the point where we can release it in both free and non-free version streams, this release is just the first step.  Please do not contact GE or Trifoil Imaging Inc. expecting to get support for this version of the software.  It will install itself along side any existing MicroView versions you already have installed.

Time Limited Demo

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While MicroView is pre-release, we'd like to keep a fairly tight grip on the demo binaries, to avoid the possibility of potentially buggy software being used by an extended MicroView audience, that isn't interested in helping report and fix bugs.  To that end, this release has a limited shelf-life of 2 months.  You can expect an updated close to the end of the 2 month window to replace it.  That being said, the more eyes to test the software the better.  Please feel free to redistribute the installer.

User Visible Changes

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  • Platform upgrade:
    • Most notable feature: a native 64-bit Windows platform release - no more 840 MB file size limit under Windows
  • Improved DICOM support:
    • Relies on the excellent Grassroots DICOM package for reading dicom images - this includes RLE, progressive JPEG and JPEG2000 encoded images.  This package also has a DICOM-compliant network layer which should allow for some tighter DICOM integration soon
  • New and improved image reader/writer support:
    • Support for UNC meta image format (read/write)
    • Support for WEBP image format (read)
    • Support for BioRad image format (read)
    • Support for Scanco ISQ image format (read)
    • Support for Nifti image format

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  • VTK/ITK package updates:
    • MicroView has been ported to run on Python 2.7, VTK 5.10 and ITK 4.3.1.  VTK 5+ includes a number of new capabilities, including GPU-assisted volume rendering
  • Massive source-code overhaul:
    • Numerous internal changes to make MicroView easier to install and easier to maintain
    • Restructured to support python eggs - future plans include leveraging eggs to improve modularity and plugin support

Known Issues

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Bug tracking is available on github.