After many months of beta testing, we are very proud to announce that Scrivener for Windows version 1.5.2.0 is now available as a free update. This update adds some great features that were previously only available in the Mac 2.0 upgrade. We hope you are as excited as we are with the new features and improvements all round.
Here is a list of new features: - Scrivener is much faster and more robust
Additional supported languages now include:- Traditional Chinese, German, Italian, Turkish and Dutch
OPML Import
OPML export
Mind map import (Freemind .mm format)
Mind map export (Freemind .mm format)
CSV export
Import and Split functionality
Import Scrivener Project functionality
Image background (texture) in full screen
Comprehensive Print preview functionality
Print index cards
Print outliner
Inspector comments and footnotes
Revised annotation, footnote and comments options
Ability to set your own user interface font
Added multi-language smart quotes functionality including:- Japanese, Korean, Chinese, German and more.
Implemented Cancel within Compile dialog i.e. changes are no longer saved when Cancel is clicked
Project and Preset Replacements added to Compile dialog
Deleting Scrivener project files within the directory of an open Scrivener project is now prevented
Options->General - added checkbox to show full project path in title bar
Added “Take Snapshot” menu item in header bar i.e. right click document icon to see sub menu and added ability to sort snapshots
Improved debug and incorporated minidump crash reporting
Improved tables and font handling throughout
Improved eBook handling throughout including CSS support
Image import improvements - WMF still remains unsupported like Mac, but we will get it soon
Windows 8 compliant
Bug fixes - Over a 100 smaller bug fixes
Important Notes If you experience any issues with the new 1.5 release that prevent you from working as you have become accustomed then you can always uninstall 1.5.x and install the previous version (1.2.5.0). You can find previous versions of Scrivener for Windows here: literatureandlatte.com/scriv … -2-5-0.exe
Work in Progress Our community of wonderful translators are now working on translations to: Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Hungarian, Swedish, Greek, Spanish, Danish, French, Norwegian, and Korean. We have also made very good progress with Scrivener for Android - phone and tablet, and are progressing well towards Scrivener 2.0.
Regards
Getting the Update In Scrivener, from the Help Menu select ‘Check for Updates…’ and follow the prompts.
Have downloaded and partway thru the install got a BSOD. Now on reboot and scriv restart am getting
“The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running. Check you computer system infromation to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.”
I used the update facility on Scriv in order to download it so no manual selection of anything.
When you first create a project, you choose a location to save it. By default this is your user Documents folder, so if you don’t remember where you saved the I’d check there first. If you don’t see them, try just using the Windows search from the Start menu/screen to search for either the name of your project or “scriv”–the latter will turn up more than just your projects, but you should see some MyProjetName.scriv folders among the results and you can then right-click and check Properties to view the location.
Great! Update install worked fine. No problems until now. A minor thing, I changed from german to english and some menus still were in german. (View->Collections->Mappe|Suchergebnisse).
Can you provide an update download link that lets me update manually? My update fails at around 43% of the download, on each of three separate tries. They built-in download isn’t refreshing itself automatically. It just times out and leaves you with nothing. It’s maddening.
Let me download it from my browser or FTP utility, and that way I’ll get the entire file down before some network glitch wipes me out.
You can download the 1.5.3 installer from the main page of the website; here’s a direct link. You can just install that over your existing copy, though I recommend uninstalling first for a cleaner update.
Hi Chris–This sounds like a compatibility issue; some other users have experienced it also. If you’re running Constant Guard by XFINITY or another antikeylogger sort of program that intercepts keyboard input (sometimes installed as part of other security software), try disabling it or whitelisting Scrivener.
Constant guard managed to find its way onto my machine- and I haven’t bothered to take it off yet. Now I’ll have to do so.
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my question. You guys really have a great product value going- an excellent customer service makes it all the better!
I am delighted to see that the new release supports mindmap imports from Freemind.
I tend to use Freeplane rather than Freemind for mindmaps; Freeplane is a branch off from Freemind and uses the same file extension (.mm). Does anyone know if Freeplane mindmaps can also be imported into / exported from the new Scrivener?
Thank you!
