<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Andrew,<br><br>On Wednesday, 27 March 2013, Andrew Packer wrote:<br>> My objective (sorry) is, at least at first, to be able to view
Aperio .svs slides <br>> without having to run Windows<br><br></div>Another option would be to use nip2, the vips gui. You can download the .dmg here:<br><br><a href="http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/7.32/osx/nip2-7.32.0.app.dmg">http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/7.32/osx/nip2-7.32.0.app.dmg</a><br>
<br></div>Then just drag to install as usual.<br><br></div>That binary is compiled with openslide and openjpeg, so it can view .svs images. Drag the image in from finder to load, or click File / Open. You'll get a thumbnail in the main window for your image: double-click that to open a view window. There are some notes on how to navigate images here:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/nipguide/nipguidese1.html">http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/nipguide/nipguidese1.html</a><br><br>It doesn't know about pyramids, unfortunately, so you'll find it's slow to zoom out. If you right-click on the image, select save-as, and save as a tiff or a jpeg, you'll find navigation is faster. <br>
<br></div><div>Mail me if you have any problems with it.<br></div><div><br></div>John<br></div>