Long-time Scrivener user, and I’m currently testing the latest Windows beta (2.9.9.2 Beta (887454) 64-bit - 06 Apr 2020). I found a couple of weird things (which I assume are bugs) when trying to build my PDF compile preset for the project I’m working on:
Not all of the section layouts defined in the compile preset can be assigned to sections when I compile. See screen snapshot below (I can’t assign the “Table of Contents” layout to anything):
When I select my front-matter section and then go to compile a second time, my selection appears in the picker but my front-matter documents don’t appear in the list (and aren’t compiled) unless I select them again from the picker.
When editing a section layout, I see checkboxes on the New Pages tab for “Always start section on:” and “Start next section on”, but there’s nothing beside them so I can’t make a selection if I check them:
I have header and footer options set in my compile preset, but no headers/footers seem to be generated in my document:
If it matters, this is a project format and not a global compile preset. I haven’t tried copying it to a global preset yet.
I had the same #4 issue in trying to create a format based on a Scrivener format. After playing around, when I changed the header/footer margins to 0", they began to show up.
Also had issues with using small caps in the section layout title options. Shows up in the sample text (sometimes), but never in the PDF.
Both “Part One” and “Section Title” are formatted as small caps under title options. In the printed PDF, the “Part One” items are uppercase, and the “Section Title” items are mixed case.
First issues I’ve had with the betas, and I’ve been using them quite a while — great job!
Small caps do not work compiling to PDF at the moment. We have issues with the Qt PDF engine, who does not write small caps properly. The workaround is to export to RTF/DOCX and save as PDF, if using small caps is critical.
