so I’m running an old iMac with Catalina on it as the OS. I love to use the dark mode, but I’ve noticed that if I copy and paste the text into another program, I can get rid of the dark mode other words the tech shows up as black background white text in a block format. Is there anyway to change this?
I’ll make an attempt at answering, since something like this happened to me, although I forgot into what other program I pasted the text into (quite likely Apple Pages.)
The ony solution I can think of is to reformat the document in the other program. Change the background color and/or text color if need be.
There’s probably a better answer coming from another user.
PS: It was Apple Pages, since I recall researching Dark Mode in it.
I would need to know more of where the text is being copied from in Scrivener, and into what program. What is being described isn’t something I have ever seen happening, nor am I even sure how it could theoretically happen, given how Dark Mode works in Scrivener. The background colour in the text editor isn’t text background formatting (that would look awful, like what you get if you select all the text and highlight it, only dark grey on a white rectangle), it’s a setting on the text editor itself, like how you change the background of the binder colour, it’s purely in the user interface. The same is true of the text colour override, which takes any text that isn’t already using a colour and prints it in accordance with the preferences rather than the default black. That isn’t formatting either.
Also, make sure you are checking against some text we might consider safe to test with, like from the tutorial in the Help menu. You might not even be describing Scrivener’s Dark Mode at all, but rather how your text is literally formatted, and mainly invisibly so because of Dark Mode.
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