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' >>> >> >> -- >> >> 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 -- 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
