Re: Experimental Microsoft Windows binary

[Alan Mead]

    SumatraPDF is my default PDF app and it doesn't have any issue with
    the PDF, but I just tried to open with Adobe Reader and I got the
    same errors. I'm sure most people use Adobe.
    
    I think John's installer properly uninstalled my old PSPP, but I
    didn't check very hard and I know it's been an issue in the past.
    
    -Alan

On 3/31/2021 8:34 AM, Dr. Oliver Walter wrote:

When I opened Alan Mead's pdf file in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (32-bit) a warning popped up

"Beim Verarbeiten einer Seite ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Beim Lesen dieses Dokuments ist ein Problem aufgetreten (135)." (An error occurred while processing a page. There was a problem reading this document (135).)

and the second page was blank. No regression coefficients were reported. I don't have these problems with other pdf files or with the previous PSPP version created by Harry Thijssen.

By the way: I uninstalled my previous PSPP version first and then installed the new PSPP version created by John Darrington. But because it doesn't seem to work correctly, I uninstalled the new version and re-installed the old one.

Kind regards,

Dr. Oliver Walter

Am 31.03.2021 um 15:21 schrieb Alan Mead:

John,

Thanks for looking into this. Your Windows binary seemed to work fine for me in light testing.

Unlike Dr. Walter, I was able to export to PDF but in this log, every line was doubled. Is that normal? I'm attaching the PDF.

Does the installation script uninstall over versions? If not (and perhaps until that is completely tested) I would recommend a warning for the user to manually uninstall all prior versions first.

I think this is great and we should ask for wider testing.

-Alan

On 3/27/2021 10:29 AM, John Darrington wrote:

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 03:11:15PM +0100, Dr. Oliver Walter wrote:
     Thank you, John Darrington. I tested your installer on a Windows 10
     computer. PSPP was installed, but a DOS window also opened and had some
     warnings:

I noticed these too, but I think they are harmless.
     
     I did a simple linear regression analysis and got some results, but I was
     not able to export the PSPP output into a working pdf file: The pdf file
     was created, but when I opened it it was empty.

That is strange.  I explicitly tested that feature and it certainly worked for
me.


Since I don't normally use windows, I'm afraid it is going to be up to more
knowledgeable about windows to fix these issues.

Thanks for the report anyway.

J'

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Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
President, Talent Algorithms Inc.

science + technology = better workers

http://www.alanmead.org

The irony of this ... is that the Internet is
both almost-infinitely expandable, while at the
same time constrained within its own pre-defined
box. And if that makes no sense to you, just
reflect on the existence of Facebook. We have
the vastness of the internet and yet billions
of people decided to spend most of them time
within a horribly designed, fake-news emporium
of a website that sucks every possible piece of
personal information out of you so it can sell it
to others. And they see nothing wrong with that.

-- Kieren McCarthy, commenting on why we are not 
                    all using IPv6