After I updated Scrivener yesterday, I was THRILLED to see that you have added the capability to zoom footnotes! A fantastic addition for those of us writing dissertations!
Today, however, as I began typing in a footnote, I noticed that there is a significant lag time when the footnote is zoomed past 100%…as in, I type a word, and then I watch the letters appear in the footnote, one at a time, every 3 seconds or so. The issue goes away when I scale back down to 100%.
If I’m doing something wrong, please let me know. Otherwise, I think you’ve got a bug!
I can’t reproduce this, I’m afraid, although I’ve only tested quickly. How many footnotes do you have in this particular document? What OS are you on? Could you play around with it and see if there are any particular steps I need to take?
Thanks for the quick reply. I have found that the issue doesn’t arise in newly created footnotes…it only happens when I type in a footnote that already exists (or go back to edit one that I just created).
I am using the newest version of OSX (10.8.2), and my document has around 600 notes.
I was working on my footnotes with multiple texts (20+) selected on the left, and when I edit the notes with only one text selected, the problem goes away.
Great, thanks, I can reproduce it now - do you find the bottom edge of the footnote wobbles up and down as you type when you get the lag? It seems that it is a rounding error caused by the zoom, which is causing the footnotes to resize with every letter typed, which impacts all the following footnotes. I’ve added this to my list for fixing for the next update.
Actually, could you please do me a favour and download, unzip and run the following version of Scrivener? Test it and let me know if it fixes the issue.
Hmm, I can’t reproduce it in this version - please check the build number is 22559 in the Scrivener > About Scrivener pane. If it is, could you please zip up and attach a sample project showing the problem, along with instructions on which footnote to edit (or send it to mac.support AT literatureandlatte.com, and mark it for my attention).
Just wanted to tell you I’m experiencing the same thing (only with comments, which I guess works the same way).
After entering a few lines of text into a comment, an extreme amount of lagging occurs, finally amounting to a spinning bathball before each new letter appears.
FWIW, I just updated to 2.4.1, and I’ve got my comments zoomed to 75% to fit more on screen.