Hi All,
I use Scrivener 3 on both Windows and now Mac too. I am very familiar with the Windows version as I’ve been using it for several years. However, I got a Mac last year for Vellum and so I’m also using Scrivener on Mac for ease of use.
Today I wanted to exports certain scenes of my latest book and send them to my Beta Reader for their view. I came to look at my Mac version and there’s no PDF option. I have both WIndows and Mac opened side-by-side and I can see that all the other options are there (not in the same order) so only the PDF export is missing. I know that they’re not direct clones of each other, but I thought that this was odd.
I will only use PDF to send through working scenes to my Beta - I won’t use easily rtf or the like - so this is a bit annoying. I’m having to log onto the Windows version to do the exports into the format I need
Am I missing something faily obvious?
Many thanks!
p.s I did search, but all I could find where ‘compile’ questions, and I’m not looking to compile, just to export specific scenes.
I suggest that if you are only assembling a selection of files from your Binder into PDF, then Select them, then Menu: Print Current Document then pick “Save to PDF” on the print dialog box. Or pick and print to PDF one at a time.
Yes, if you need batch PDF export then using the Windows computer is probably your best bet. You could probably cobble something together on your Mac using a macro program, like Keyboard Maestro, but that’s maybe a bit much for one simple thing.
Otherwise, if it is just a one-off here and there, the method above is fine. You can make a PDF from any program that can print, so that’s a good general purpose Mac usage tip to be aware of.
Don’t understand this. Can select multiple files in the binder, then “print” to PDF and they all end up in a big PDF, or am I seeing something different?
While I don’t have the Windows version to see how that would be better, the macOS version, as this printing to PDF is a standard macOS feature, seems to do what’s asked for, without any cobbling that I know of. No?
In the Windows version you can select 40 binder items and export them to PDF, getting 40 PDFs. If that is what you want, batch PDF export as I put, the only way to do that on the Mac is with macros.
