The text in several scenes appears emboldened. For other scenes the text is much thinner and more attractive. However the editor displays Palatino Regular for both and is not emboldened.
Compiling to Word Palatino font gives a near perfect result with normal text. However if I compile to “Print” the thicker text survives the conversion.
It’s also a problem when using Linguistic Focus as the text will not grey out.
I’d be grateful for any help.
Can you screenshot the errant and desired text?
And just because I’m silly, have you compared text sizes?
Only other thing I can think of is mucking about with the line height and spacing settings, as that can sometimes force a redraw in-situ and produce odd results.
As for a ‘fix’… Have you tried compiling to a PDF and then viewing the PDF to see if the text aberration is there?
Hi Dain
Many thanks for these suggestions. They look hopeful.
I will copy and paste and send over but expect delays.
Holiday intervenes and my ipad is not very functional. But if i can i will.
I get back from Nimes on 10 Dec. So that is a last resort
I’m not sure I’ve successfully posted the screenshots above. All I get is a text address. Anyway let me know.
In answer to your questions
I have compiled to Word only. I’ll definitely give PDF a try
The Font and Character size in the Format Bar were both Palatino 12. But the text looks very different.
I do not know much about line height or similar. I have not adjusted it to solve this problem. Is it in the Format bar?
Hanks again for the input
Alan
The screenshots look more like iPAD/ screenshots than Mac screenshots. Is that the case? If so, people need to know as it does make a difference.
That said, I don’t think I can help, as I don’t use that version.
Mark
Hi Mark
Yes they are iPad versions but only because I’m on holiday and my iMac was too heavy for carrying on the train.
Almost all my work is done on the desktop version.
Alan
Okay Alan, I looked at the top two iPad screenshots and they look similar. I’m not where I can do a lot of fancy image editing, but some quick work with MacOS’ screen grab tools and creative window placement shows me this…
Is the upper blurb the errant version? (Note, both blurbs are zoomed in after screengrabbing, the artifacting and aliasing are from that process)
I found the variance to be very, very subtle and my aged eyes took far too long to see it.
You can export to PDF from the iPad version of Scrivener.
All of that said, I do much of my work on my iPad and have for years now. One of my oldest projects (that was imported into Scrivener first in 2012) has many sections with different fonts and such. I don’t worry about that too much because I can use the power of Scrivener’s compile tools to override then.
I do understand how it can be annoying. I still remember working in 80 columns by 25 lines (and was thankful I had 80 colums!) and getting the formatting perfect on the screen only for the output on the printer to be really fluffed up.
