Hi,
I am writing a PhD dissertation and giving Scrivener on Windows a try out.
But I don’t see how to set individual pages or sections to landscape (for images, wide tables etc) within an otherwise portrait project.
How can I do this please?
Thanks,
brodders
For layout like this, you’ll need to compile and then do the final formatting in a word processor or other software with this capability (Word, Indesign, etc.). You can choose in Scrivener to compile just a single document or collection of specific documents, so you could select those items that need to be landscape and compile them separately, but you would still need to merge them back together into a single file after leaving Scrivener. The editor isn’t constrained to a page size–all of that is handled in the compile Page Settings–so you can focus on drafting and organizing your text in Scrivener without needing to worry about “portrait” or “landscape”, and then do that adjustment at the end, once your text is written.
In the case of a dissertation, I expect you’ll need to be compiling sections regularly for your advisor or others following your work, so this may need be something done more often. I expect there’s a macro or other quick way to post-process in Word or similar, but I’m not knowledgeable about that end of things. Some some of the other users who’ve been down the PhD path, or who are just pro Word users, may be better able to help you better with that.
Hi,
I don’t know what to say.
The reason, for me, to use Scrivener is that it gets away from Word and it’s large scale incompetencies.
Word suffers from silent errors (pagination lacunae) as complex documents exceed several hundred pages; mix in pictures and bounded objects of varied sizes and Word gets so fragile that WYSIWYG breaks and it will print something other than it puts on screen. It becomes quite (and randomly) eccentric; changing a comma in one place might offset margins elsewhere or cause a blank 1/3rd of a page to appear 10 pages away.
My last 4 days of my MSc were a hell of trying to get Word to generate a .pdf which matched correctly what was on screen; I’ve learnt that it is famous for this.
And… Scrivener needs Word as an output engine? NOOOoooooo!..
There must be another way! HELP!
brodders
I am agree with brodders. I am also trying to get away from Word. It feels so awkward for Scrivener still needs Word or other app for just having a mixed page layout orientation,
You don’t need to use Word for the layout. You can use any software focused on layout, like Adobe InDesign. But Scrivener is not a layout app, it’s for writing, not for desktop publishing.