Request reinstatement of Draft Viewer in V16

[Barnett, Adrian (DECS)]

Hi,
This is a request to SPSS that they reinstate the Draft Viewer which was
dropped from version 16.

The alternative which SPSS have suggested - export your output as a text
file , save and then re-load in some other application to read it, is simply
unworkable.

My work entails long programs which restructure, parse and clean very large
data files.  The programs are thousands of lines long and require checking
their output every run.  These runs take along time and having to stop,
export the output, save it, open it in something else and then check the
output is not practical. Debugging a big program is hard enough as it is
without having an exasperating delay like this added to the process.

I therefore request that SPSS reinstate the draft viewer.

Because of the inability to work the way I need to, I have abandoned use of
V16 and now use V15 exclusively.  Given the many other problems I've seen in
this list that other s have experienced with 16, I'd probably be using 15
anyway, even if the draft viewer was still there. However, I expect that
SPSS are well aware that those problems need fixing and are working to
address them. Whether they will be able to do this as well as maintain their
recent practice of a major new release each year remains to be seen.

But the matter of the draft viewer remains a showstopper for me and I hope
that this issue can be incorporated into the work schedule.

Regards

Adrian Barnett

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[CG]

 I would also like to recommend that developers of V16 consider using
better fonts throughout. The quality of the font is so grainy that my
elder eyesight can't distinguish some text clearly.  The effort to read
the screens has driven me back to v15 as well.


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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Adrian Barnett
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:54 PM
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Subject: Request reinstatement of Draft Viewer in V16

Hi,
This is a request to SPSS that they reinstate the Draft Viewer which was
dropped from version 16.

The alternative which SPSS have suggested - export your output as a text
file , save and then re-load in some other application to read it, is
simply unworkable.

My work entails long programs which restructure, parse and clean very
large data files.  The programs are thousands of lines long and require
checking their output every run.  These runs take along time and having
to stop, export the output, save it, open it in something else and then
check the output is not practical. Debugging a big program is hard
enough as it is without having an exasperating delay like this added to
the process.

I therefore request that SPSS reinstate the draft viewer.

Because of the inability to work the way I need to, I have abandoned use
of
V16 and now use V15 exclusively.  Given the many other problems I've
seen in this list that other s have experienced with 16, I'd probably be
using 15 anyway, even if the draft viewer was still there. However, I
expect that SPSS are well aware that those problems need fixing and are
working to address them. Whether they will be able to do this as well as
maintain their recent practice of a major new release each year remains
to be seen.

But the matter of the draft viewer remains a showstopper for me and I
hope that this issue can be incorporated into the work schedule.

Regards

Adrian Barnett

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