The drop down Window for font selection in Scrivener has given me trouble for some time now, and up until now, I have ignored it. Now, that I want to change my fonts, its become bothersome. When I want to chose a new font (or font size) from the drop down window, the drop down window selection appears, freezes, then closes, and I am unable to chose a font. I can’t scroll down or chose any font quickly. I seem to be updated as well, but I’ll seek an update, but this has been going on for some time. Any ideas? I viewed the other related topic where it was a double-click issue, but I am not double clicking - and I am using a mouse.
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It would help if you shared your version number. Help > About Scrivener.
I haven’t had this issue, but I assume you are referring to the font pulldown on the formatting toolbar.
As a workaround, have you tried changing the font using the right-click menu? Right-click > Font > Show Fonts.
Hopefully that will work for you until L&L responds.
Best,
Jim
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My font list is HUGE. What I do is try not to have my cursor in the way while Scrivener is building the font menu list. The first attempt closes on its own. When I click on fonts again, Windows 10 has the fonts in the cache so that Scrivener can display them swimmingly. Then I can move the cursor over the list and use the wheel to scroll through.
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The very thin arrow bars at the top and bottom of the font list need to be much thicker for hypersensitive mice trying to land on them. Otherwise, clicking on the scroll arrows or bar on the side is a sluggish way to move through the list.
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Make sure your video driver is the most current.
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You can use the Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut to open the Fonts dialog.
That brings up the Windows 3.11 for Workgroups font chooser window.
Ha! I can’t.
Thank u… I ended up doing just that.
I thought that too as my font list is massive - so I assume it slows it down. I also always have to restart Scriv which helps too, but the longer I stay on Scriv, that problem persists and slows everything down. I just do the right click now. Works no problem rather than try and use the drop down menu any longer…
This has been happening to me for years and it’s still ongoing.
Scrivener version: 3.1.5.1 (2073405) 64-Bit, July 6, 2023 yet it says there are no updates available.
I have an updated (as of today) NVIDIA video card (GeForce RTX 3070 Ti).
I’m running Windows 11, version 24H2.
And I’m sorry if I’m not supposed to ‘necro’ a thread, but I was so excited to find that I was not alone in this problem since the last time I searched the forums that I felt it pertinent to place my reply with the original post.
ps: Ctrl-T allows me to change the editor’s font if immediately needed, but I’m trying to change the default fonts for everything to create a cohesive appearance.
For me this problem tends to only happen the first time, as described above, after that I can use it normally.
And I’m sorry if I’m not supposed to ‘necro’ a thread…
No worries at all! That’s better than a new thread with no context, that I would often merge with the original bug report or discussion anyway.
Ctrl-T allows me to change the editor’s font if immediately needed, but I’m trying to change the default fonts for everything to create a cohesive appearance.
Have you tried setting your defaults and using the update tool? That is most often the easiest way to go about it, and unlike text formatting commands, can be run upon hundreds of items at once. You choose what kind of formatting gets updated, too.
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File ▸ Options… ▸ Editing ▸ Formatting is where I am experiencing the problem. Oops. I thought that was already stated in the thread above. I’m sorry I didn’t make that clear.
Edit: speedily moving my mouse far away from the font list as soon as I hit the down arrow to view the options does seem to help. I guess it really does give the program more time to load the fonts without threat of switching them immediately or something(?).
Ctrl+T does actually work from that context, if you have clicked into the sample text area, and it does not have the normal downsides of using it, since you can only have one selection for the defaults (rather than a mix of italics or whatever).
But overall yes, it sounds like it is a bit worse for you than me. It does definitely “die” after the first attempt, but after that point I can use it. On the bug ticket for this, I do have the suggestion that we add a checkbox to disable font preview as well. At least for myself, I have never cared for previewing fonts in menus like that. If I don’t know what I’m looking for, that is what font browsers are for, and they are going to do a way better job of it than a tiny single line.
Even so, it should still be fixed, it’s just never been super high priority since it has always worked on the second attempt for us.
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I think part of the problem could be my font storage is a mess. I don’t know how it happened, but for some fonts, like Texturina, I have about 30 different varieties of the same font because it created “Texturina Bold 18” and things like that. I’m also a lover of serifs and typewriter fonts, and find it extremely hard to find the perfect one for the specific occasion at hand, so I do have quite a few fonts to work through. I like how in the ctrl-T menu you can still preview the font - and quickly! - in the separate small box, and I think giving it a chance to load - once actually definitively selected - and showing it in the sample text (the quote from Nietzsche, I think it is) is good enough, but I would also like the ability to see it in a sample of our choosing, if such a thing were possible. Or, if all of that is too cumbersome to add on to the program itself, perhaps have an easy way for it to hook up to Google fonts, instead?
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