I’ve loaded up 1.4 on top of 1.3.
Spell check okay - everything else too; Although …
… for some reason on one of my poems there are lines in 10pt, and others in 8pt; when they all were set in 11pt … chinscratch …
Looking forward to using this … Great work everyone.
One minor problem I just saw after installing V1.4…
I had used the Character template sheets in the NaNoWriMo template. The formatting was messed up (what I typed went off to the left) as I believe is already known. Loading up the project in V1.4, the same sheets seem worse. I can no longer see the titles of the sections (‘Role in Story’ etc). I can move my cursor up and down but when it’s on a line where there’s a title, it disappears. On a hunch, when this happened, I pressed ‘Home’ (to move the cursor to the start of the line) then ‘Tab’ and the title re-appeared. The titles seem to be way off the left hand edge of the page.
Ah – Just tried selecting all then noticed the page margin marker wotsit above the ruler was almost off the edge of the screen so I grabbed it and moved it back to the ‘0’ position and the titles re-appear.
By the way, I vote for sorting out document templates and icons next (more useful to me than importing/exporting Word files) 
Just noticed I can import an image into a document (something I couldn’t find a way of doing in 1.3 – yay!)
Confirmed. Uninstalling 1.4 and renaming the Scrivener folder in C:\Program Files got spell check working on a fresh install.
Thanks, mightygitis.
Jerome
Bit of a minor point but apparently the installer doesn’t remove the Scrivener shortcut in the start menu.
Luckily, the installer puts a new shortcut called “Scrivener Beta 1.4”, which distinguishes it from the old shortcut (which is just called “Scrivener Beta”).
But it really should get rid of the old one (or keep the same generic name)
Having same problems with spell checker as other report here. I am running an Asus eee pc netbook with windows xp.
After doing a complete uninstall of the old scrivener, including manual removal of all files and folders not removed by the uninstall process, and installing the new release, everything is working fine, including spell checking. At least for now.
I’m frustrated though, because Scrivener still does not work on my two primary computers. Since the very first release, I’ve only been able to use Scrivener on one very old Dell Inspiron 700M laptop. When I install it on either of my two primary laptops, the program will open but it crashes when trying to create a new project and it won’t open any existing projects. It either crashes or gets an incompatible error when trying to open any project, even one that is a known working project.
All 3 of my laptops are Windows XP Pro, fully updated and all have the c++ distributables installed. Why it only works on one of these three laptops when the setups on all three are the same makes no sense to me. All I can guess is that programs installed on my two primary computers interfere with Scrivener.
The one laptop it works on, has very few other programs installed, since it’s a laptop I don’t use. I’m loving Scrivener so far, but it’s inconvenient to only be able to use it on this one laptop. All the other programs I use are on my other laptops and the one time I tried to install another program on this laptop, Scrivener promptly crashed and stopped working. Uninstalling the other program didn’t get Scrivener working again. Neither did uninstalling and reinstalling Scrivener. I had to do a complete system rollback to get Scrivener working again. I don’t dare try to install anything else for fear that Scrivener will break again.
I really hope that they’ll get this issue worked out soon. I’m loving Scrivener and really want to use this for all future writing projects, but I need to have it working on my primary computers.
I installed 1.4 over the top of 1.3. When I first opened my project Spellcheck wasn’t working. (running XP and have had very few problems with Scrivener so far). I went into Options under Edit and in Auto Corrections unchecked then rechecked Check Spelling as you type. Hit Apply and when I returned to my project the Live Spellcheck was working again.
Hope someone finds this helpful 
I can also confirm that my shortcuts hung around from the earlier Beta, but it was one of the things I deleted during my second uninstall process.
Did you try the fix listed in this thread?
The spell-checking has never worked for me in any version. At first I thought this was a problem with Scrivener running on computers with the language set to something other than US English as I live in Sweden. Even though I do write in English I thought that perhaps the program assumed that I would be writing in Swedish and that was why I was getting no spell-checking.
I have now tried all the workarounds in this thread and I still have no spell-checking. If this is because the program thinks I want to write in Swedish I do not know as I can find no option for telling the program what language I am writing in (hopefully this will be available in the finished product).
My spell check worked fine.
Something I did notice.
When I uninstalled Beta 1.3, I noticed it also thought I had Beta 1.0 still installed. When I tried to uninstall that version as well, the uninstall failed.
Initially I went ahead and installed Beta 1.4, however I noticed the Beta 1.0 left some cruft hanging around. I uninstalled Beta 1.4, then removed the contents of “C:\Program Files(x86)\Scrivener”. (I’m on a 64-bit platform. If I were 32-bit it would just be “C:\Program Files\Scrivener”.)
I actually didn’t try out the spell-checker before I cleaned out the contents of the Scrivener folder. However, it is possible that cruft from an earlier version didn’t get cleared out properly.
If you uninstall Beta-1.4 the C:\Program Files*\Scrivener folder should be empty. If it isn’t empty you can clear it out and see if that fixes the problem.
points to her own post from yesterday telling people to do this to get the spellcheck back :mrgreen:
Has anyone verified that the compile to rtf is working? I’m still getting the title page error where it goes on and on for thousands of pages.
I have windows 7 64-bit. I completely uninstalled (and removed the program files directory), then installed. I see this on two seperate machines.
Hi All,
Thanks everyone for their feedback. Particular thanks and appreciation to Mightygitis for her feedback.
Okay, so there’s definitely some installer issues with not removing icons and a thorough clean-up from previous installs.
There’s several issues with the dictionary that are most likely linked to this uninstall and install process. That I will need to investigate further.
As far as the pre-existing title page compile error - that does remain currently and will be fixed in the very near future - we simply ran out of time fixing the majority of the rtf bugs before the 12 Dec expiry - lesson learn for me here, I just left the release too late and got caught. So, my apologies.
There may be some strange things happening in the rtf as a result of previous work already in Scrivener. Opening the text elements and re-saving will store the text with the new RTF engine, fixing any legacy formatting issues after that should remain - rulers and margins still need to be addressed as this is an outstaning editor issue currently.
As far as dictionary’s go for multiple languages - this is something that we will address soon as well.
Thanks again
Lee
Thanks to Mightgitis’ superb instructions (thankyou!) the beta has installed flawlessly on both my old and dying XP and my new and efficient Windows 7 machines. Spelling works just fine.
It’s beautiful! Thanks to everyone for the hard work on this for all of us.
FWIW, I installed 1.4 over the top of 1.3 and the spellcheck seemed to be working right off the bat. Although one thing I did do was notice auto capitalization was still messed up (automatically capitalizing after abbreviations), so I went in and turned that option off.
Format -> Font -> Bigger makes selected text smaller the first time. Then you must keep it selected and keep clicking on “bigger” and it subsequently does enlarge.
Format -> Font -> Smaller makes selected text microscopically tiny the first time.
Format -> Font -> Italic does what it is supposed to.
Format -> Font -> Underline does what it is supposed to.
Format -> Font -> Bold does what it is supposed to.
Format -> Font -> Colors does what it is supposed to.
Format -> Font -> Strike Through does what it is supposed to.