Please don't make minor version upgrades destroy exporting preferences

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I just turned in a file right on a deadline and made myself look like a complete embarrassment, because unknown to me, the “upgrade” to version 3.1.5 completely erased my exporting preferences from version 3.1.4, which made my hyperlinks disappear when exporting to PDF.

Furthermore, please consider “actually showing hyperlinks” as the DEFAULT setting?

It is totally baffling to me why this isn’t the case. Having active links, but hiding their functionality, seems to be more of an edge case. But having active links, and actually showing them, sure seems like a proper default setting.

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From your other thread, it looks like this was a Compile setting, not an Export setting.

That matters, because Compile formats that you create are completely independent of Scrivener itself. You should not only be able to upgrade without changing anything, you should be able to transfer the format to a completely different machine. So could you walk through exactly what you did in a little more detail, please?

Katherine

3

I’ve had to go through this again. Does the following setting have to be changed for every new document?

Is there any way to save this as a default preference?

Finding this “transformations” setting is not intuitive at all.

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See the dropdown menu up top where it says “Save To: Project Formats?” Change that to “My Formats.” That will make this Compile Format available to all projects on the current computer.

To reduce the confusion, you might also want to change the name of the format to “My Comic Script” or “Comic Script-hyperlinks” or something else that will allow you to recognize it easily.

Katherine

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I did this. Evidently it doesn’t permanently fix the problem. Here I am two years later, once again being embarrassed by sending out a document where all the hyperlinks have effectively disappeared. I don’t know why my preference disappeared. Version upgrade, or whatever.

Please, pretty-please with sugar on top, make “underline hyperlinks” the permanent default option? It is UX malpractice to have the default behavior be to disable any visual indication that distinguishes a link from regular text.

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Since it has been more than two years since your last response, I’m afraid I’m not clear what you’re referring to when you said, “I did this.”

Did you create a new Compile Format with the Transformations settings you wanted? And did you use that format for your most recent output file?