Hi. I have a Scrivener project with many internal links between documents in the project. I’d like to compile as either a pdf or a word document, keeping the links intact and functioning. Is it possible?
The option to ‘convert document links to html links’ only seems to appear if I choose to compile as an epub, which I don’t want to do.
Am I missing something?
I’m using v3.1.1.0 on Windows 10
Thanks, Neil
You can Compile with the Compile Options to Link back to Scrivener, but that’s not the functioning you mean. AFAIK you can only maintain Document Links compiling to e-books.
I am writing a novel which gives the reader the opportunity to chose what the main character should do. It is bloody hard work setting all the links to the correct scene and now I found that they got lost when compiling to any other format (epub will not do).
Is there no way around it? This cannot be true, this would be - sorry to say - a bit stupid. Why would one want to set links in a programme that is used for writing and compiling in a format that one needs for other software programmes (for layout or a better spelling check in other languages than English)?
What can I do except for spending another two days and doing the work I already finished?
Do you perhaps have the Remove all hyperlinks option ticked, in the general options tab on the right side of the compile overview window? Cross-reference links are indeed possible with word processing output, though there may be some additional factor that is causing them to not appear.
Why would one want to set links in a programme that is used for writing and compiling in a format that one needs for other software programmes (for layout or a better spelling check in other languages than English)?
Well do keep in mind that Scrivener’s linking system can serve two different purposes. One of those purposes is to operate purely as a writing tool, where the links are for your own benefit and not meant to export at all. So that should answer your question as to why one would want that—clearly you aren’t in the group that sees any benefit to that, and that’s fine, the software works the other way as well. But since it does support two different ways of using links, that does mean you can have them all stripped out, and it sounds like something you’re doing has triggered that behaviour.
At any rate, it should be possible, though do be aware it’s not something PDF does (technical limitations), but that should be okay since the PDF generator in Scrivener for Windows is mostly a proofing level tool. It’s a simple matter to generate a PDF from a word processor in a few seconds, if you aren’t really doing much by way of proofing page layout.