Greetings! I have a strange issue with a pdf file that I’ve exported into Scrivener. The file is 173 pages long. It looks great in Scrivener – until you get to page 100. After that, you can’t seem to view the rest of the document, it just appears blank. The fact that it happens right at page 100 makes me think it’s some limit I wasn’t aware of?
Any idea how I can get it to make the pages after 100 viewable?
I don’t know about such a limit, but you might look at the following. It was related to the Windows version, but should generally hold true for the Mac version also. It is probably worth reading the entire thread.
https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/useless-text-selection-in-pdf-files/27180/10
Doesn’t answer your exact question, but hopefully is of some assistance.
I don’t know of any limit, but as a workaround, you could open the PDF in Preview, split into two parts and then import the two shorter PDFs into Scrivener.
This sounds like an OS X 10.9 bug in the PDF engine that we use (and thus unfortunately we cannot fix it, so please report to Apple if you have the time, and make sure to mention it is widespread through multiple programs using PDF Kit). The workaround is to switch display mode to single page, rather than continuous, with the View/Media/PDF Display/Page Breaks menu command.
Thanks for the help! Changing the media view to “page breaks” instead of “continuous” allowed me to view the pages after 100. Generally I prefer the way “continuous” works, so I will attempt to file a report with apple. (If I can figure out how.)