Hello Dan, We spoke long with Omicron and they really do not want to give any file specifications for the Matrix File Format, which will remain fully proprietary file format. But anyone is allowed to implement parser, but should be warned that they could change the specifications at any point.
As you probably know they provide a proprietary converter tool called Vernissage to get Omicron Flat File, which are documented. I implemented the Flat File Format module for Gwyddion, based on Omicron specifications. Attached is a Python version of a flat file parser (matrixFile.py), you can also see a C code in Gwyddion repository, I also attached other scripts I used for generating different thumbnails based on this parser (be warned that they are probably no the nicest python code one can write, their were tests... but can still be useful in your case). If you really need or want to implement an other parser for the undocumented Matrix File, I can ask my colleague who wrote an Igor plugin (but the code is even less understandable than the C code). I know he took some notes while reverse-engineering the binary file format. Please, if you implement parser or thumbnails generator, keep me informed. I apparently have the same needs as you. I was thinking to use PyGwy to get a fast thumbnails generator... but never had the time to write it. If you are interested we could work together. Best regards, François -- François Bianco, Doctorant Groupe Renner Université de Genève Département de la matière condensée 24, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 1211 Genève 4, Suisse Bureau: École de Physique, 017c Téléphone: +41 (0)22 379 3547 Mobile : +41 (0)79 568 3459 Web: http://dpmc.unige.ch/gr_renner Ce courriel est signé numériquement par OpenPGP.
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