Re: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 69, Issue 19

[Erik Frebold]

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> Date: Tue Jan 24 09:00:12 PST 2012
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> Subject: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 69, Issue 19
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. How do I print variable and data view papers?
>       (Christopher Hildebrandt)
>    2. Re: How do I print variable and data view papers?
>       (John Darrington)
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> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:16:24 -0700
> From: Christopher Hildebrandt <address@hidden>
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> Subject: How do I print variable and data view papers?
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> I am taking a class at a university that requires the use of spss
> which I am opposed to purchasing. I found PSPP and have had no problem
> doing assignments on the GUI since it is very similar to spss, the
> only problem is that there is NO PRINT BUTTON! I am not technically
> savvy enough to perform any of the command line stuff I found posted
> in the forums, and the user manual appears to have been written in
> Greek and translated into Latin then into Swahili or something...
> could someone help me figure it out? my assignment is already late and
> I have another due tomorrow. I am trying to print a variable view of
> my data set, and a data view just to demonstrate that I have entered
> the correct data under those tabs. the version of pspp i am using is:
> psppire.exe 0.7.8-g796bca. thank you!
> 


I slightly hesitate to mention this because it may violate principles and I 
don't want to state the obvious, but I've been in a similar situation, and at 
the time I found my university had some terminals with a version of SPSS 
installed, so that students weren't (technically) forced to purchase the 
software. My first choice was always PSPP, but if I ran into difficulties that 
looked like they were going to consume a lot of time, I had success writing 
some labs on the SPSS terminals (and most on PSPP). That way I got familiar 
with both systems, which I reasoned was handy because proprietary software does 
turn up a lot in employment situations, and because, well, PSPP is awesome. 
Regards, 
Erik