I'm working on processing some FTIR imaging data from an Agilent FTIR microscope with SMAK 3.0.7. The .dmt file loads into SMAK correctly and I see a new Data Channel labeled "FTIR" created along with the correctly processed mozaic tiling in the Display window. When I define the .hdf5 spectrum file (under MCA Spectra->Define MCA File) the x-axis untis are not displayed correctly. My source data should start at 898.67 cm^-1 and end at 3801.01 cm^-1, however it looks like the x-axis has loaded so that the first value is at 466 cm^-1 and the last data point is at 3468 cm^-1 (so the start position is off, as are the bins). I can see there is an option in MCA Spectra->FTIR Support to load IR Settings, but it's looking for a .json file which I do not have and am unsure the formatting of (and am not sure this will fix the underlying issue). Is there a recommended way to correct this or set the start value of the energy axis (particularly one that's not an integer, but somethign with several decimal places) as well as my bin size (should be 1.928467 cm-1/bin)? Thanks!

When installing SMAK, I encountered an error when installing PyQt5 with Anaconda Navigator. I think it might be due to running it on a M2 Macbook. In case you are encountering a similar error I found the following work around: Download python v3.10 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100/ Create Rosetta terminal https://dev.to/courier/tips-and-tricks-to-setup-your-apple-m1-for-development-547g Start a new environment that runs Python 3.10  python3.10 -m venv smakenv Activate the environment source smakenv/bin/activate Install SMAK  pip install smak Find where smak was installed pip show smak Tell it SMAKs location Cd /users……(put location listed above here and add /smak) Open SMAK python smak.py Hopefully this helps! ~Miranda

FYI for those installing on Windows in particular -- here's a quick tip! Many users may install Anaconda in a local folder (i.e. "C:\users\myname\") and some people may use spaces in those user names (i.e. "C:\users\first lastname"). If you are changing directories to a file structure like that on the command line, you'll need to use quotes around the path name to get to the proper place!