This plugin achieves easy creation of image figures for publications, reports, projects.
Jerome Mutterer (CNRS) and Edda Zinck (HTW).
Contact: mutterer[at]ibmp.fr
When using FigureJ for a research article, you can cite the following article from Journal of Microscopy.
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HTW, Berlin, Germany
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Easy-to-design interactive figure layout.
Visually assign image content to panels.
High quality image scaling and rotation.
Easy and consistent panel labels and scalebars.
Each panel has it's original datasource's properties and tracks achieved image processing.
Save and re-open editable figures.
Export as standard image formats with textual description of each panel history.
The core of FigureJ for laying out images should work properly on all systems.
Links to external tools were not tested on all Windows versions and require that
you have those external programs installed and configured.
Update to the latest version of ImageJ.
The following files need to go to the ImageJ/plugins/ folder:
figurej_110b.jar → get it from this
link
LSM_Reader.jar → get it from
this link and unzip it in your plugins folder.
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External panel type: Chimera panel
External panel type: Inkscape panel
External panel type: R panel
External panel type: Generic
Contact the authors about license and source code issues.
1.10b (2015-10-14)
fixed very slow image transform with the latest imagescience library (setting resample to true in Image imagescience.transform.Affine.run(Image image, Transform transform, int interpolation, boolean adjust, boolean resample, boolean antialias) was causing very slow image transform with hyperstacks)
1.10 (2015-09-30)
1.09 (2014-12-08)
1.08 (2014-09-18)
1.06 (2013-12-03)
1.05 (2013-12-03)
On windows, disabled double click panel opening
Possibility was added to draw the last selected ROI in a overview image (FigJ tool menu)
1.02 (2013-05-24)
Better usage of imagescience library: faster transforms
Cursor changes over interactive areas
ROI selection tool : double click validates, close image cancels
1.01b3
1.01b1
1.01a8
1.01a7
1.01a6
1.01a5
Fixed a bug with misplaced right-aligned labels after reopening a figure.
Thanks to Pierre Bourdoncle and Ton Timmers, alt-copy and alt-paste allow reusing selected panel geometry only on a new datasource.
1.01a3
Rearranged the options panel.
Added common overlay functions to the options panel.
Fonts and Arrows settings windows open by themselves when adequate.
1.01a2
Fixed printing to final size after a figure was reopened.
Fixed panel labels fonts, sizes and colors that got screwed after a figure was reopened.
Fixed scalebars that were redraw with wrong colors.
Fixed region selection tool that wasn't displayed properly for multi-C images with ImageJ 1.47g+.
1.01a
Thanks to Wayne Rasband, the tools removed by FigureJ are restored upon exit.
added the 'print at final size' button to the 'more…' dialog.

FigureJ now requires ImageJ version 1.47f or above.
1 beta 26
fixed several null pointer exceptions when loading an existing figure and the side panel was not present.
newly created figures are displayed faster.
version number is now displayed in the control frame.
1 beta 23
1 beta 20
removed Pymol support in favor of better UCSF Chimera support.
replaced 'remove scalebar' button by a visibility checkbox.
added 'script panel link' where the content of a panel is provided by the result image of a macro.
ImageJ window position is not affected anymore
FigureJ uses only native filechoosers.
Saving asks for selecting a folder only.
Opening asks for selecting the *.figurej file.
1 beta 12 : release for the 2012 ImageJ Conference
FigureJ, or other plugins that could attempt to restore startup macros upon quitting, should not be started from the startup macros.
FIJI-only: preference dialog not in the plugins menu.
FIXED - You're getting the error message: “Plugin or class not found: “FigureJ_Tool” (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ij/plugin/tool/PluginTool
⇒ This error is probably due to the fact that you are using an ImageJ version
less than 1.46d. The missing PluginTool class was added with 1.46d11. You
should upgrade to the latest ImageJ version using Help > Update ImageJ.
FIXED - You're getting the error message: “java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError”
⇒ You should consider upgrading java to a more current version. Easiest method is to download the current ImageJ for windows package that includes java.
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