Good day, I am using the 6x9 paperback format ans assigned section layouts formy non-fiction book. When I compile for PDF everything os as I want it.
When I do the same compile for .DOCX, there is some issues like TOC fprmatting not 100%, not showing page numbers. Also, images throughout the book is not formatted correctly. They are bigger that the should be.
How should I approach this problem?
Kind regards
Zack
When you Compile to docx, <$p> placeholders don’t become page numbers until you print – but it’s enough to pretend you’re about to print and close the dialog.
Calculate how many pixels wide they should be. Take the page width you’re aiming for, minus the left and right margins, and multiply by the dpi (resolution) of your target document. It’s best, I think, to edit the images themselves to be a little bit smaller than that width. Or make them a smaller width, if you don’t want to fill the page width.
For pdf, dpi = 300. On the Mac, I can tell Scrivener to output docx at 300 dpi, but I think Windows uses another number, maybe 72, and you can’t change it. (Or maybe that was only a problem in the beta releases.) However that works out, size your images accordingly. You could need images sized for both resolutions; you’ll have to experiment.
Instead of resizing the images outside of Scrivener, you can have Scrivener resize them instead, with image tags such as <$img:imageName;w=1400>. That’s very useful in the experimentation stages.
In the end, when that method gives you images that compile the way you want, and you know what number to use after w=, I think it’s best to use the other method, resizing images to that width, so that Scrivener doesn’t have to resize them. That takes extra time at every Compile and may affect quality in the compiled image.
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This is correct. Scrivener will neither add nor subtract information, it can only change the displayed resolution. So, if you start with a 300 dpi image and change the display resolution to 72 dpi, you’ll still have the full original file size.
Thank you for this.
Just to confirm before I start customizing image sizes and at the moment I am focusing on PDF and docx. I must still do the eBook ePub part.
The scrivener 6x9 (customized) to pdf compiles a perfect output.
When using the same 6x9 and compile to docx, it goes haywire. When I open the output in word, it is very different to the pdf version.
I would want the word version to look the same as the pdf.
Thank you