Overview - Document types

A small icon shows you what type a document is. You will find these icons, e.g. in the Documents tool window and in a document's header in the document group. The following document types are supported:

Images

Charts

See also

Document group

Images

Your software supports a variety of image types. The various image types differ, for example, in the amount of information an image contains. A 24-bit true-color image can, for instance, contain 2 to the power of 24 colors (16.777.216). An 8-bit gray-value image only contains 256 gray values. As a rule, the image type will be determined during the image acquisition, by the camera you use, or by the method you use, to acquire it.

The following image types are available:

Icon_RGB 24-bit true-color image

icon_grauwertbild 8-bit gray-value image

icon_16_Bit_Bild 16-bit gray-value image

icon_tstack Time stack

Navigation bar in the image window

Multi-dimensional images have their own navigation bar directly in the image window. Use this navigation bar to set or to change how a multi-dimensional image is to be displayed on your monitor.

Navigation bar for image series (time stack)

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Icon_chart Charts

Your software has its own chart document.

A chart will be saved in the OCT file format. You can only open this file format with your software. It is, obviously, therefore not suitable for using to exchange data with other application programs.

Creating a chart

In some tool windows charts will be used to show measurement results graphically.

Use for example the Line Profile tool window to have the intensity profile along a line displayed on an image. Click the Export to Chart bb_exportChartLineProfile button in the tool window to export the line profile to a chart. In contrast to the line profile that is displayed in the tool window, you can save a chart, edit it and also measure it.

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