17 and export to pdf

[Maguin, Eugene]

To folks who have 17 and export to pdf files.

I just spent the last half hour getting beat up by 16 during an export of a
850K output file to pdf. In disgust, I quit the operation.

My question to the above folks is this: how fast does 17 export to pdf? How
long to export a 500K or 1M file? I'm curious. Spss swears that printing is
faster. I'm wondering if pdf export is similarly faster.

Thanks, Gene Maguin

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[Lightfoot Russell]

Gene,
My biggest frustration with SPSS 16 was problems exporting from the output window (taking an excessively long time or not exporting at all). With 17 I have exported some very large Excel files (up to 3 MB) and export occurs in a reasonable amount of time, so I can definitely say that 17 is better (faster and can handle larger files) than 16 when exporting to Excel.
hth--Russ Lightfoot


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Gene Maguin
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:26 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: 17 and export to pdf

To folks who have 17 and export to pdf files.

I just spent the last half hour getting beat up by 16 during an export of a 850K output file to pdf. In disgust, I quit the operation.

My question to the above folks is this: how fast does 17 export to pdf? How long to export a 500K or 1M file? I'm curious. Spss swears that printing is faster. I'm wondering if pdf export is similarly faster.

Thanks, Gene Maguin

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[Eric Langston]

Gene-

I tested a 340K Output document.  It exported to PDF and generated 235
pages and took several minutes, but less than 10 minutes. The pagination
of large tables takes quite a while.  I also tried printing the Output
to CutePDF -- a print driver that generates a PDF document.  That seemed
to take the same amount of time as exporting directly to a PDF.

HTH,
-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Gene Maguin
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 4:26 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: 17 and export to pdf

To folks who have 17 and export to pdf files.

I just spent the last half hour getting beat up by 16 during an export
of a
850K output file to pdf. In disgust, I quit the operation.

My question to the above folks is this: how fast does 17 export to pdf?
How
long to export a 500K or 1M file? I'm curious. Spss swears that printing
is
faster. I'm wondering if pdf export is similarly faster.

Thanks, Gene Maguin

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