After spending some with this I have some thoughts about it.
The “transformations” approach has two downsides.
- it seems like it does not work with scrivenings and has to be done individually for each document
- when I apply this, there is still a “leftover” Bubble for each annotation that is “hidden”
I spent some time reading through the other threads you linked to and one post seemed particularly interesting. Hiding annotations in Scrivener 2.0? - #11 by MimeticMouton It is about the the annotation color to background color solution that GoalieDad was referring to.
The results were in part better… but it also had a few downsides.
- it works globally
- no leftover bubbles
BUT - switching back and forth is too complicated
- does not work correctly if the backgroundcolor is different in “composition mode”
- I could only find the settings to do this for Inline Footnotes - not for Inline Annotations. I changed the color for Inline Footnotes at Options>Appearance>Textual Marks>Colors>Footnotes Background AND Inline Footnotes Text and was setting both values to the color of the background by clicking on “Pick Screen Color” and then sampling the BG Color.
Anyhow… according to what was written in the other posts it seems that there once was made quite some effort to implement such a feature but it finally was dropped after it turned out that is not possible due to some technical limitations.
I think implementing a clean version of the “set font color to BG color” solution to scrivener that automatically reads the active background color and sets the Comments color accordingly would make a lot of people happy.
In case you talk from time to time to the Devs you maybe could mention it.
Thank you