Opening & Saving Files
The commands below open and save images and other types of documents. File opening and saving commands are typically located in the File menu and the Main Toolbar.
New creates a new, empty document. This command is supported only for Text documents.
Open is the standard Windows Open command which opens a variety of Mira file and document types.
Save & Save As are standard Windows commands for saving to files.
Save with Suffix saves an image or an Image Set with a suffix added to the filename and, optionally, to a new folder.
Saving Image Sets describes commands for saving an Image Set to a file.
The Create Image Keyword List command tabulates information from specified list of keywords for FITS format images. The images do not have to be opened to use this command and the table of results can be used to graph keywords of open images selected from the list.
The Open Table in Excel opens a copy of Microsoft Excel and enters the contents of a grid window as a new Excel sheet.
Use these command to open and save images that are in non standard image formats:
As described in Command Dialogs, Mira has two types of command dialog: an immediate form that works with the top-most Image Window and a global form that allows images to be selected from various sources. Global command dialogs use the Select Source Images facility to gather images for the command.
Contents, Saving Image Sets, Select Source Images, Command Dialogs