Scrivnerites: First and foremost, kudos maximus. I love Scrivener. Have toyed with it for years but with 2.0 finally bought it. Am trying to write a speech and have split my editing pane in two, with my text on the left and - I’d hoped - my .pdf research material on the right.
I have several docs “scrivnered” in the left pane, and am trying to get the right (research) pane to display my series of .pdf research documents in the same manner - i.e. a single long document separated by the standard separators.
All is well with the left-pane scrivening, but Scrivener refuses to allow the “scrivening” display of the series of research .pdf files I want to see in the right pane. I get the error message “Multiple non-text selection.”
Any way to get one long .pdf scrivening to diplay from a series of .pdfs?
Scrivenings is purely for text documents only - it doesn’t work with PDF documents (which would involve disassembling and reassembling PDF files using the PDFKit) or other files, hence the message you are seeing. It’s not intended for media files at all.
Thanks Keith. Might I suggest you take the feature request onboard for a future version? I think it would be tremendously advantageous for writers to be able to have parallel “streams” of material in Scrivener - say a text Scrivening/stream on the left and then a stream (or at least a cojoined list) of .pdfs, grapics, photographs, whatever on a separate pane. Currently the text to research “flow” for non-text material is a little choppy as I have to go to each research element individually. I know there is nooooo end to the quirky demands made by we insatiable and never-satisfied users, but you knew that already. Regardless, Scriverner is a masterpiece and I love it!
Best regards and thanks for the very prompt reply!
This isn’t a complete solution, but it may help you, if you know what you’re going to want to look at in the split, to load everything in advance and then use the arrow buttons on the top of the editor (or the forward/backward in document history shortcuts) to move from one to the next. It’s not exactly scrolling, but it would probably still save time over having to run back to the Binder to pull up the next piece you want to view.
I can safely say that I have no plans to start trying to merge together media files - that way madness lies. The next step would be merging JPG files into a multi-page PDF and then onto video clip merging until I have a full video editor in there… Eek.
Mimetic - Good suggestion - arrow keys are much better than clicking around.
Keith - How hard can it be? And, yeah, this is hardly a dealbreaker. I’m certain there are better ways to work in Scrivener that I have yet to discover. Well done again, and thanks!
The next step would be merging JPG files into a multi-page PDF and then onto video clip merging until I have a full video editor in there… Eek.
And, yeah, this is hardly a dealbreaker. I’m certain there are better ways to work in Scrivener that I have yet to discover. Well done again, and thanks!