Two iPads—Different Formatting For New Chapters in New Projects—why?

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I have two iPads (don’t ask). Both iPads are running iOS 13.5.1 and Scrivener 1.2.1 (2096). Both sync to the exact same Dropbox folder. One is a brand new iPad I just bought, the other I’ve been running Scrivener on for years. On the Mac end, I run Scrivener 3.1.5.

When I create a new project on my Mac or my old iPad, the fonts and paragraph layout for new Novel chapters are exactly the way I like them. On my new iPad, however, when I create a new Project I’m given some kind of default font and paragraph formatting that is not my preference.

Anyone have any ideas why this might be?

Thanks for any help on thIs Fourth of July in the U.S. Many people are probably celebrating and doing fireworks; however, I am staying home to work on my novel today, as I’m a bit excited after finally writing some dialogue last night for two characters I created three years ago but never did much with until seven hours ago.

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Hi random_pattern,

Congratulations on rebooting your novel writing. :slight_smile:

Each device has its own default settings. If you’re not happy with settings on one of them, then here’s how you’d modify that.

  1. Create a new document or edit an existing one

  2. Click the paintbrush icon, to take you to Formatting

  3. Format the text to be as you prefer

  4. When you’re done formatting the text, from within Formatting choose Formatting Options > Set as Default Formatting

New documents on this device should now be formatted to your preferences.

Best,
Jim

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Thanks, Jim! That worked immediately!

But yikes, now I have another problem that just cropped up on my new iPad: pinch to zoom doesn’t work correctly, For text that’s pinched smaller than 2.0x, I start seeing big, blank spaces on either side. This doesn’t occur with my old iPad (same Scrivener files, same iOS, same versions of everything).

Is there a control for pinch to zoom somewhere for the iPad Scrivener?

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Never mind, I figured it out:

From within the Scrivener iOS app:
Open a project
Go into a chapter or text file
Click on the gear at bottom left
Click “Show App Settings”
You are now in iOS Settings: Scrivener
In the second General group:
Tap Editor
Change “Text Width” to “Full”
This will ensure that when using Pinch to Zoom in iOS Scrivener you do not get big, blank spaces on both sides under a certain percentage (when text is smaller)