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

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

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.

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