Hi first time user here. When I Export a blank page it is changing the font. How do I select the font that it exports in. Also why does compile change the formatting so drastically? I would use compile if it didn’t change the formatting so much.
Also, Is there a way to set a page break between pages? I am writing a book with illustrations, and the illustrations or the text keep ending up on the wrong page.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Hello!
Scrivener is not exactly a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) text editor, like you might be used to with Word or LibreOffice.
It is, instead, a text manager. Almost all of the formatting you do in the managing portion of the software (where you write) can and, ideally, should be divorced from the formatting you do when you convert that raw manuscript into a formatted one, through compilation.
I suspect this is the source of your confusion.
The general idea behind this is that you have full freedom to write the way you like it, separately from how you want the end text to look when it is read.
This is why the compilation process leaves a lot of freedom and I urge you to explore setting up your writing area the way you are most comfortable with, and then looking at the help and guides here to consider how you want the end product formatted after compilation.
To answer your immediate question about font, you will find the compile... panel has a Formats section where you can change the way different project Styles will compile to.
If you haven’t already, I’d recommend taking a look at our Interactive Tutorial, available from the Help menu. It’s a good overview of Scrivener’s fundamental operations.
If the Export command is changing the font, the most likely reason is that the specified font is not supported by whatever you’re using to open the output document, and so it’s falling back to the system default.
If the Compile command is changing the font, it’s probably because the Compile Format you’re using told it to.
You can insert a page break character from the Insert → Break menu. However, I would not recommend using Scrivener for final layout of an illustration-heavy book. As noted, it’s not a WYSIWYG editor, and you might spend hours trying to perfect something that would only take a few minutes in a true page layout tool.