Not sure if this is what’s referred to in the update thread as the font fix to come, but for some reason my fonts are all over the place. The main two problems seem to be that it won’t bring in a blanket font for the whole set of documents, and on the corkboard the largest font size I can have for the titles and descriptions is 8 in any font.
Apologies if this has already been picked up, chewed on and dealt with ^^ I did have a glance through the forums to see if there were any likely topics already.
I’ve gotten this one, as well. Sometimes when I switch documents within scrivener, and sometimes when I exit and restart. I can’t reliably reproduce it, though.
Yup - and it only seems to happen on the last document in a multi-doc setup? I had a separate doc for Chapter 2 and it only changed that to size 8. WHen I had a single file it always changed that file.
I thought this, but two documents in the same folder were suddenly size 8 font. All I can come up with was that they were the last two I’d worked on the night before. I had scrivener up and open most of the day, since I wanted to keep track of session target word counts. I exited the program by closing the window. Perhaps it’s a preference not being saved?
I’ve been having the same problem. There is one situation when all my fonts change to MS Shell Dlg 2 size8 and that is when I backup the complete project. Whatever the font is before the backup, after the back every is MS Shell Dlg 2 including the cards on the corkboard. At other times it appears to be random with only some of my scenes changing font. Whatever, it’s very bizarre behaviour.
1)I’ll open Scrivener and make a new document. I’ll change the font of that document to, say Verdana 12. I’ll write a few paragraphs.
2)Then (because I’m doing NaNo sprints) I’ll copy a paragraph into a new document to check a specific wordcount. When the new doc opens, the font says MS Shell Dlg 2 with a size of 8. The section I paste will be in Verdana 12.
3)When I go back to my original document, if I click on the blank space after the typed words, the font changes automatically to the default MS Shell Dlg 2, size 2 (though all the typed words will remain in Verdana 12).
Since I’m doing sprints, I go through this routine multiple times a day. Every single time I do it, the font changes to MS Shell 8 no matter which font I choose.
I tried changing the default under Edit ->Options -> Editor, but it hasn’t changed anything.
Thanks! I’ve been keeping an eye on this thread. I think what I want from my font choice is for it to globally affect all of my Scrivenings, even when I import something. Not sure if that’s something I won’t get or not!
Well, actually this was addressed in the November 7 update message. Basically the “empty paragraph” problem he is referring to is the MS Shell Dig 8 weirdness. However the paragraphs that have words typed should stay the same now rather than varying.
The various paragraph/line spacing importing idiosyncrasies should be fixed by the time of the official release and has to do with the RTF reading/writing part of the program.
While the regular fonts seem to be fixed for me (except the empty paragraphs of course), I am unable to change my corkboard font size or any document note font size.
The corkboard will not move out of 8 pt when I try to change it via Edit > Options. The apply button doesn’t change it, nor does just clicking ‘Okay’.
I AM able to change the font type, but not the size. And oddly enough it flips back and forth within the Options itself.
Edit > Options
Select Corkboard tag
Fonts - Index Title (Helvetica [8]) > Select
Font Size > Change to 12 > Okay. Result: Index Title now reads (Helvetica [12])
Fonts - Index Text (Helvetica [8]) > Select
Font Size > Change to 12 > Okay. Result: Index Text now reads (Helvetica [12]) and Index Title now reads (Helvetica [8]).
Fonts - Status Stamp (Helvetica [8]) > Select
Font Size > Change to 12 > Okay. Result: Status Stamp now reads (Helvetica [12]), Index Text now reads (Helvetica [8]) and Index Title reads (Helvetica [8]).
This happens no matter which font style I choose and when I simply hit Apply and/or Okay all of them read [8] in the font style I last chose.
This is a much clearer, and therefore better, description of the exact problem I’m continuing to have, into Beta 3 as well. Font is different but otherwise the problem is the same. Thanks!
