I’ve written several books in Scrivener without images or fancy layout requirements.
Now I’m working on an academic book project with extensive text, many images, hundreds of footnotes, and a need for control over layouts. I really want to do the writing in Scrivener (it’s a great tool) but I’m having a painful experience trying to get that writing into InDesign. I have image placeholders in Scrivener that I want to format properly in Indesign. All the tutorials I’ve found have intensive workarounds using coding.
Is there a clear way to do with without having to get into coding?
In the past, I’ve used a combination of Word and InDesign for these types of projects. The workflow is effortless: Word files are linked to Indesign, and updated as needed. I hate Word (and love Scrivener) for writing. But this cumbersome process is making me reconsider just writing the whole thing in abominable Word. Others online seem to export from Scrivener to Word to InDesign, which seems kinda nuts to me. What about a second draft? Do I rewrite in Scrivener, only to have to again lay the book out in InDesign? Three programs just to write a decently formatted academic book?
Tl;dr, Is there a clear way to get a Scrivener file with footnotes and images into InDesign? Seems like a major liability of Scrivener that there’s no clear way to do this.