Bio-Rad EXQuest Spot Cutter - Manual (Page 43)

PDQuest User Guide
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or down arrow to the right of the field to display a hierarchical tree structure locating
the default drive, folder and file.
Note: The drive buttons only include mapped drives. If you need to access an
unmapped (network) drive, you can type the drive name directly into the Folder
field using UNC notation (e.g., \\remote server name\shared directory
name\...\file name). Or you can create a shortcut to the drive on your desktop.
To go directly to the folder where your images are stored, click the Sample Images
Folder. To go to the folder containing your MatchSets, click Sample MatchSet Folder.
Specify the locations of these folders in Path Preferences under Edit > Preferences.
An image created in the Windows version of PDQuest can be opened in the
Macintosh version, and visa versa. However, you must add the appropriate extension
to your Macintosh files to open them in Windows (e.g.,.gsc for Raw 2-D scans, .gim
for Filtered images, .csc for calstrip scans, etc.).
PDQuest comes with a selection of sample images. In Windows, these files may be
found in the Discovery Series/Sample Images/2D directory. On the Macintosh, they
are stored in the Sample Images folder in the PDQuest folder. These sample images
are related, and can be used to create a MatchSet.
Opening TIFF Images
The Open command can also be used to import TIFF images from other software
applications.
TIFF images do not contain all of the tagged information that would normally be
included in a Discovery Series image file (e.g., scanner type, date, color, etc.). For this
reason, the Image Info and Print > Image Report commands will not display all such
tagged information from TIFF files.
There are many types of TIFF formats that exist on the market. Not all are supported
by the Discovery Series. There are two broad categories of TIFF files that are
supported:
1. 8-bit Grayscale. Most scanners have an option between line art, full color, and
grayscale formats. Select grayscale for use with the Discovery Series software. In
a grayscale format, each pixel is assigned a value from 0 to 255, with each value
corresponding to a particular shade of gray. Hewlett Packard
™ , Microtek ™ , and
Sharp ™ each make scanners that produce compatible 8-bit grayscale images.