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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT size=2><B>From:</B> Richard Greenwood<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>> It may not be your output format that is slowing things down. I found<BR>> the ECW source format to be much slower than TIFF.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Interesting, as that contradicts the findings in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><A href="http://www.agile2006.hu/papers/a382.pdf"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>http://www.agile2006.hu/papers/a382.pdf</FONT></A><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>. Do you have any empirical</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>data for your case - I would be extremely interested in any </FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>sort of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>input on this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>best regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>Kristian Thy</FONT></DIV>
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