DICOM @ OFFIS

Dave,

dave wrote:I read in one of the help documents that the binaries can either have the data dictionaries compiled into the application, read from the external files, or both.

this is correct. Did you check that the environment variable DCMDICTPATH really points to your private dictionary?

Jörg

Dave,

dave wrote:C:\>dcm2pnm.exe +Wm image13.dcm test.png

my first guess: did you simply forget to set option --write-png (+on)?

Joerg

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