I’m moving my computing from an old Macbook running Catalina to a new Linux box. There’s no working version of Scrivener for Linux so I’m going to have to convert my output to .odt for Libreoffice. Is there an easy way to do this? The only way I have worked out is to use Scrivener on my Macbook to convert everything I want to keep into rtf and move the rtf files. All I need to move are the text files which can be in any format that I can handle on Linux. I don’t (yet) want to use Wine if I can avoid it. Thanks for any help.
Probably the command you want is File → Export → Files.
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Wow! I never knew that existed. Should have known that there would be a simple way to get a Scrivener file ready for sending out. 1000 thanks!
If you want it all in one document, use the Compile command instead. Bulk Export will replicate the structure of the Binder.
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Have you looked at Crossover? It is an alternative to Wine for running windows software, including, I think, Scrivener. Run Microsoft Windows software on Mac and Linux | CodeWeavers
Ray
I’ve used CrossOver for years on Mac, but for Linux there are free alternatives, Lutris seeming to have a lot of traction amongst Linux users of Scrivener.
Mark
P.S. I have just re-installed CrossOver and installed Scrivener from their script (you need to tell Crossover to look for Scrivener when you choose “Install application”, or whatever it says). Went ahead smoothly, albeit slowly, for all the Microsoft plumbing with repeated installation of .Net versions and agreement panes. On the Mac it installed Scrivener into a Windows 10 64Bit bottle; you might have to make a choice on Linux depending on the distro you’re running.
Started up and opened a Scriv project without problem… no having to delete texttospeech.dll or whatever it’s called.
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