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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ian – I did give this a try and it did not fix either the file size or the slow speed problem.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also, I reduced the size of the metadata (at least, of the ExperimentDescription string) by 5 KB, and the file size was reduced only by this amount.  So at least this particular metadata item is not being duplicated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Gary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ome-devel [mailto:ome-devel-bounces@lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Munro, Ian<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 27, 2014 9:02 AM<br><b>Cc:</b> ome-devel@lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ome-devel] OME-Tiff writing using LOCI calls from MATLAB, and ModuloAlongT annotation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Again Gary  <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Good to know that you’ve found a solution. However,  I find it puzzling that the files are different sizes.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We had a problem where bio-formats was writing multiple copies of the xml when called from Matlab.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The work-around was to add the following line:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:black'>java.lang.System.setProperty(</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'>'javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory'</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:black'>, </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'>'com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl’</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:black'>);</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:black'>to the Matlab code as in the example that I sent.</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:black'>Perhaps this might help.</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:black'>Regards</span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:black'>Ian </span><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Menlo","serif";color:#272AD8'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>