links don't compile with many sub-documents

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Hi folks,

Is there a limit to the number of links that Scrivener can handle? Or a problem with links and too many documents in a project?

I’m doing a non-linear (pick-your-own) story for Kindle in Scrivener and it’s been great, until the past 48 hrs it’s stopped compiling the links as links - the text is still there but it’s not a ‘clicky’ link anymore. They still appear fine within the Scrivener editor itself, just not when compiled.

Investigating further it appears that the links stop acting as links after a certain number of sections are included in the project. I’m wondering if this is intended or a bug and if there’s any way around it.

Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks.

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Do the links behave correctly if you compile to another format, say PDF or ePub? Scrivener has no limit on the number of links, but KindleGen might.

Katherine

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Hi Katherine,

I’ve just tried PDF and no - they don’t link.

I’ve turned on the KindleGen ‘Save Source Files’ option and can see that the html anchors aren’t appearing in the source files.

i.e. If I delete half documents so that I’m below the apparent limit I see the following:

<p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span">	</span><a href="body1.xhtml">Foreword</a></p>

Whereas if I’m above the limit I see this:

<p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span">	</span>Foreword</p>

Are the source files saved created by Scrivener or KindleGen? These were produced from the same project, using the same options with only the following differences that I was aware of:

  • Saved/compiled to a different folder so I had both sets of files to compare
  • the one that included the links (the <a href=…) had many documents moved to the trash, so it was a smaller document.

Hope that this makes sense…

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Have sent PM with a dropbox link to files showing the problem.