Adding Comments

The comment system is there to help keep notes on individual FITS images. In the list view of all files of a directory, click into the comment column of a file and edit a comment.

Comments are stored in a text file .fitscomments in the directory where the images are stored. This implies that the user using the FileBrowser application has to have write privileges in that very directory. Without write access, commenting will not work.

Data are stored in the .fitscomments file in a pair/value line by line format, and should be readily usable for other applications. Entries are only made for those FITS images taht have a comment attached.

Exporting log file to pdf

The FITS files listing of a directory can be expoerted into a .pdf file. To do so, click on File -> Generate pdf logfile. This will generate a latex file in the /tmp directory and tries to compile using pdflatex. After that, the FileBrowser will attempt to open the pdf file.

The full path to the pdflatex binary and the program to open the pdf docuemnt are stored in the ~/.VisualFileBrowser configuration file. The defaults are:

org.wiyn.VisualFitsBrowser.latex.pdflatex=/usr/bin/pdflatex VisualFitsBrowser.latex.tmp=/tmp