Due to the limitation of libtiff, V3D once could only read >2G image stacks only in two ways: (1) use V3D's Raw format, and (2) Use the "Importing image series" function in the main menu. A third way sometimes also worked, i.e. using an existing V3D Bioformat_IO plugin or ITK_IO plugin to read data.

But it would be really nice if TIFF / LSM stacks that are larger than 2G can be directly loaded in V3D, without using the plugins, or the RAW format!

** Now, V3D v2.515 can read > 2G large TIFF/LSM files! **

The building script for Mac was also updated and tested, for both 64 and 32 bit systems.

There are still some minor problems, however. But I am going to fine-tune the system based on users' feedback!

-hanchuan
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As of now (v2.525), I added an option for a user to determine whether or not use Mylib or Libtiff to load tiff/lsm files. Libtiff reading engine will be faster but is subject to data type and file size (<2G) limitation. Mylib is slower, may have some unexpected behaviors but cannot load big TIF/LSM files (as mentioned in previous post, we tested on 8G single image stack w/o a problem).

MyLib, btw, may load some TIf files as 16bit but libtiff may reads it as 8bit. The display won't have a problem, except the data would be scaled differently by different readers.[/userquote]