as I had updated my unix system and thus updated Wine to version 5.0 (and I still want to find a reason to lobby for money to get this software for our lab). I attempted to install those free demo software again.
PictureSnapApp seems finally to work, and is able to open the demo bmp images. Yahoo! Finally I can test it... lets see - It supports Bmp, jpg and ... gif. What?
. There is no support for
de facto standard for scientific imagery - tiff? no support for transparency-native png's? So before loading my normal images I will need to transform them into weird formats... Tiffs (especially those from microscopy) often contain calibration and position tags (bmp, jpg... and
gif have no means for that), so instead of automatic placement in correct position I will need to convert it into dumb format and "Snap" it by hand? Interface - is not intuitive and not familiar to any other tools. Does Full-licensed PfS use this SnapApp a lot? or mappings images are saved independently from it in normal formats?
Ok lets try CalcZAF.
Nope – unfortunately still can't get it working. (The program starts, but has problem with reading standard database, I am attaching the screenshot). Maybe the problem is in that it is searching for file in case insensitive way, but my OS is case sensitive... or maybe I need special dll driver override for mdb reading...
Generally there is a progress and hope, as previously (with Wine 3.x ) I could not get SnapApp to respond to anything, and now not a single error. CalcZAF, maybe I can find a way to make it work.