NOTICE! This is a static HTML version of a legacy Fiji BugZilla bug.

The Fiji project now uses GitHub Issues for issue tracking.

Please file all new issues there.

Bug 1189 - Scale bar doesn't show up when saved as Tiff file.
Scale bar doesn't show up when saved as Tiff file.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Fiji
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Plugins
unspecified
PC Windows
: P4 normal
Assigned To: ImageJ Bugs Mailing List
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-11-15 08:54 CST by liviavj08
Modified: 2015-11-15 13:43 CST
2 users (show)

See Also:

Description liviavj08 2015-11-15 08:54:50 CST
Scale bar doesn't show up when saved as a Tiff file in any other application, but when opened in ImageJ it is there. If saved in Jpeg it showes up. I just updated all my Fiji. Same thing happaned yesterday on another computer.

Information about your version of Java:

  os.arch => amd64
  os.name => Windows 8
  os.version => 6.2
  java.version => 1.8.0_51
  java.vendor => Oracle Corporation
  java.runtime.name => Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
  java.runtime.version => 1.8.0_51-b16
  java.vm.name => Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
  java.vm.version => 25.51-b03
  java.vm.vendor => Oracle Corporation
  java.vm.info => mixed mode
  java.awt.graphicsenv => sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment
  java.specification.name => Java Platform API Specification
  java.specification.version => 1.8
  sun.cpu.endian => little
  sun.desktop => windows
  file.separator => \

The up-to-date check says: REMIND_LATER

Information relevant to JAVA_HOME related problems:

  JAVA_HOME is set to: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_51/jre
  imagej.dir => C:\Users\Livia\DOWNLO~1\FIJI-N~1\Fiji.app

Information about the version of each plugin:

Activated update sites:
ImageJ: http://update.imagej.net/ (last check:20151113124007)
Fiji: http://update.fiji.sc/ (last check:20151111100059)

Files not up-to-date:
  c3f8675e (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171512 jars/Jama.jar
  b6bf3817 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171532 jars/edu_mines_jtk.jar
  986cfcf5 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171543 jars/imglib2-algorithms-2.0.0-beta-26.jar
  ce6460d3 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171543 jars/imglib2-algorithms-gpl-2.0.0-beta-26.jar
  673fae25 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171543 jars/imglib2-algorithms-legacy-2.0.0-beta-26.jar
  51eadb2a (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171543 jars/imglib2-meta-2.0.0-beta-26.jar
  25895ad6 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171544 jars/imglib2-ops-2.0.0-beta-26.jar
  8c636e50 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171547 jars/jai_codec.jar
  717dd8e0 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171548 jars/jai_core.jar
  c295a4c5 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171551 jars/jdom-2.0.2.jar
  64241209 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171551 jars/jdom-contrib.jar
  1ad3be0d (LOCAL_ONLY) 20151102171600 jars/jpedalSTD.jar
  d2af3ac9 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171635 jars/kryo-2.21-shaded.jar
  2cee6c37 (OBSOLETE_UNINSTALLED) 20151102171506 plugins/Threshold_Colour-2.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
Comment 1 Wayne Rasband 2015-11-15 13:43:33 CST
The scale bar is an overlay so you need to "flatten" the image before saving in TIFF format by pressing shift-f (Image>Overlay>Flatten). Or, when creating a scale bar, uncheck "Overlay" in the dialog box.