Literature & Latte Release Notes

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Scrivener 3.5.2 is a bug-fix release, addressing the following issues:

• Worked around a bug in macOS 26.1 and 26.2 that causes the outline and page view footer bars to be covered by a white strip whenever a horizontal scroller is visible.
• Fixed bug whereby
  Insert ▸ Bibliography/Citations…
  was available in the main menu even when no citations manager was set in Settings, resulting in a nonsensical warning message when you tried to use it.
• Fixed issue whereby Writing Tools no longer appeared in the editor contextual menu on macOS 26.
• Fixed bug whereby font choosing buttons would draw the font name outside of the button for large fonts.

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Scrivener 3.5 requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or above. Earlier systems are no longer supported by Apple’s latest developer tools.

Scrivener 3.5.1 is a bug fix release for Scrivener 3.5, addressing the following issues:

• Updated app icon to be more like the older icon but using Liquid Glass, getting rid of the border.
• Fixed bug whereby split view dividers could be drawn in the wrong place in some circumstances.
• Fixed issue with headers and footers drawing inverted in the print preview panel.
• Fixed appearance of progress bars in the toolbar search field on macOS 26.
• Fixed bug whereby Quick Reference panels weren’t seen by the find panel, linguistic focus or image tools.
• Fixed bug whereby upon reloading a project, paragraphs with no style could take on the style from the paragraph above.
• Worked around an Apple bug in macOS 26 whereby a translucent bar covers up the top of the outline in full screen mode if the outline has a header bar and is in a window with a toolbar. (Apple bug ID#FB20651946). The workaround for this also restores legibility to outline headers when e.g. a dark background is set for the outliner in dark mode.
• Fixed bug whereby closing a split containing a comment that was being edited in the inspector would cause the text of the comment to stay visible in the inspector, and yet the comment change wouldn’t be saved.
• Fixed a drawing bug where text could seem to disappear below the line being edited in page view.
• Fixed bug whereby UI validation would stop working in windows that were closed and reopened, such as the Settings panel.
• In an attempt to further alleviate an ongoing trackpad scrolling lag, UI validation is now paused entirely during live scrolling.

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This update fixes a crash that was discovered as a result of optimisations that were attempted in 1.5.2. It is a recommended update for all users running 1.5 or greater.

Bug Fixes

High priority

• Reverted optimisations made to note dragging, as they were found to cause sporadic crashing when clicking on notes.

Minor fixes

• Fixed bug whereby adding a note onto a connector by double-clicking on the line could cause other connectors to lose their arrow status, reverting to regular connections.

This update fixes a few important bugs that cropped up in the recent 1.5.1 upgrade and is a recommended update for all users running 1.5 or greater. It also includes compatibility refinements with macOS 26.

Refinements

macOS 26 “Tahoe”

• The icon has been redesigned to conform with the new System Settings for dark, clear and tint modes.
• The title bar will now be drawn seamlessly with the background colour of the board, when it is possible to do so, without sacrificing the ability to open separate boards into a single tabbed window.

General refinements

• Made it possible to copy styles from one board to another, by using drag and drop from any note or style, between open inspectors on different boards.
• Increased the area around connection lines where dragging and double-clicking is detected, making it easier to add notes to lines, or drag notes by their connectors.
• Splitting notes now better preserves their original widths and auto-fit state.
• Improved tooltip labels for preselected colours in the quick selection pop-over.
• Improved smoothness of zooming behaviour under certain conditions, whereby the scroll view would erratically jump around while zooming.

Bug Fixes

High priority

• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when entering Full Screen mode, or loading boards that had been saved that way, on Intel hardware.
• Fixed a crash caused by incompatible colour storage for default new note or shapes settings.
• Fixed bug whereby closing a board after saving it, with a note left open for editing, would result in losing the recent edits to that note.
• Fixed a crash that would result in loading files that had previously been locked, with File ▸ Prevent Editing.
• Fixed a bug whereby leaving the inspector open with the Note Styles section visible would cause crashing whenever the window lost focus (such as to switch applications, or even to load a dialogue box within Scapple), on macOS 26.0.
• Fixed a bug whereby the size of the board would stay the same when switching to Full Screen mode, with the inspector open, in macOS 11.x and 12.x. The fix requires the inspector to be closed upon transition, but can be opened again once in full screen.

Minor fixes

• Cleaned up window title bar, where the divider between it and the board content was drawn incorrectly.
• Fixed minor drawing issue along bottom of window when footer bar is showing, for macOS 15.x and 26.x.
• Fixed inspector being drawn too low along the top of the window in macOS 10.15.x.
• Fixed issue whereby imported PDFs were being rasterised and embedded as TIFF or JPEG data.

Drag and drop

• Fixed a bug that would cause the scroll view to move erratically, when dragging notes near the edges of the board.

Connections and arrows

• Fixed bug whereby connecting selected notes with Notes ▸ Connect or Notes ▸ Connect With Arrow commands (or from the contextual menu) would not undo/redo properly.
• Fixed bug whereby the Notes ▸ Distribute ▸ Vertically command would incorrectly change the order and placement of notes.
• Fixed bug whereby making new connected notes from the contextual menu, with arrows, would draw the arrows incorrectly.

Scrivener 3.5 requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or above. Earlier systems are no longer supported by Apple’s latest developer tools.

macOS 26 Support

• Updated for macOS 26 Tahoe support, with many subtle changes to the UI to better fit with Tahoe.
• Scrivener now has a new, Liquid Glass application icon.
• As part of these updates, the minimum version of macOS that Scrivener 3.5 supports is now macOS 11.

Stability Improvements

• A slew of interface validation code has been rewritten to alleviate the trackpad scrolling lag experienced by some users.

Text System

• Worked around an Apple bug whereby lists take on the formatting of the preceding paragraph.
• Fixed an issue whereby list items following styles and other special formatting could become corrupted, caused by recent internal changes to the macOS text system. (Note that this only prevents the problem from happening in the future. Text already affected will need to be edited manually.)
• Added code to work around Apple TextKit drawing bugs whereby adding or deleting lines could result in text below the edited lines not redrawing properly.
• Text caret resizing code has been updated, which hopefully fixes an issue with the text caret sometimes drawing too small or not at all.

Usability Improvements

• Project search no longer closes the composition mode window when the latter is open in a different Space.
• Fixed bug whereby new cards added to the freeform corkboard weren’t added at the right position.
• Fixed bug whereby Opt-dragging cards on the freeform corkboard with the option to create duplicates enabled would mess up the positions of existing cards.
• Fixed issue with being able to take blank snapshots in inspector.
• Fixed issue with being able to spam snapshot taking in the inspector.
• Fixed issue whereby moving paragraphs up and down using the keyboard shortcuts while typewriter scrolling was enabled could cause erratic scrolling.
• Fixed issue whereby redefining paragraph styles containing heading levels did not update the heading level for existing text using the style.

Scriptwriting

• On macOS 26, there is now a slightly longer delay for the auto-complete suggestions list appearing during typing when “Show suggestions list while typing” is turned on in Settings. This is to avoid choppy typing caused by Apple adding an animation whenever the suggestions list appears. This means that if you are, for example, typing a scene heading in script mode, you will now need to pause typing very briefly to see the list of completions. (Or you can hit ⌥ Esc to see suggestions immediately.) Turning on “Reduce motion” in macOS’s accessibility settings removes the animation, in which case Scrivener will use the older, shorter delay.
• Fixed bug caused by undocumented changes by Apple to TextKit that made it so that parentheticals in scriptwriting were capitalised when they should ignore auto-capitalisation. This bug affected systems running 10.15 and higher.
• Fixed bug whereby the option to add scene numbering to script elements would break keep-with-next for those elements when compiling for print or PDF.

Export and Compile

• Kindle (.mobi) has now been removed as a Compile export option, since Amazon no longer supports the .mobi format and now expects ebooks to be submitted using the ePub file format. Existing Compile formats set to use Kindle are automatically switched to use ePub.
• Fixed an issue whereby the Compile window was mostly blank on macOS Tahoe.
• Page Layout no longer requires units entering in the margins text fields.
• Fixed bug whereby exported Word documents would be corrupted if the same link was added to the main text and to footnotes or comments.
• Fixed bug whereby the font of Inspector footnotes and comments was not affected by the Page Layout override option.
• Fixed bug whereby footnotes at the end of a section could result in invalid HTML in ebook export.
• Fixed issue where captions beneath images would not be recognised as captions when exporting to MultiMarkdown formats if a footnote was attached to the image.

UI Fixes

• Fixed bug whereby the option to show compiled footnote numbers in the Inspector would not work if back matter was included in the compiled text.
• Fixed issue whereby disclosure triangles and pop-up indicators would be the wrong colour for selected rows in the outliner.
• Fixed issue with some controls using the wrong text colour when selected in certain areas of the UI.
• Fixed UI typos.
• Many minor UI tweaks to fix issues on macOS 26.

Other

• Updated APA project template for APA 7 (with thanks to Michael Shulman for contributing an updated format).
• To fix a loophole in Scrivener’s trial, the grace session after the trial period finishes is now limited to 48 hours.
• Fixed issue whereby if Scrivener was in quarantine or on a removable disk when launched, it would get copied to the Applications folder if you had chosen “Do not show again” to the warning about this, even if you had chosen not to install to the Applications folder in the past.
• Improved error messages for cross-grade check failures.

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Refinements and Changes

Compile

• The compiler now suggests a file name when choosing where to save, and will persistently remember the last file name you used, per project.
• The “MMD OpenOffice Document” compile format, for compiling ODT and FODT files via MultiMarkdown, is now capable of creating an index with grouped, or hierarchical, terms. Refer to the user manual Appendix D5.6 for details.
• Duplicate images will no longer export multiple times when compiling to Markdown or plain-text.

Outlining

• Refined the outline selection behaviour so that right-clicking an item in the binder, outliner, or corkboard will open the context menu without also loading the item in the linked editor.
• The UpArrow and DownArrow keys will now navigate the results list when focus is in the project search field, and Tab will move focus to the results.
• Modifying an item’s custom icon and converting between folder and file types no longer update the item’s modified date.
• Using Documents ▸ Change Icon ▸ Icon from Text…, it is now possible to create empty icons (type in a space).

Text Editing

• Improved the text selection behaviour in Scrivenings so that switching document focus clears previous selections that would otherwise appear active but be unresponsive.
• Improvements to display of inline annotations, particularly across lines.
• Inline annotations can now have their colour changed by using the text colour tool with the cursor anywhere within it, rather than having to fully select it.
• Styles can now be toggled on and off, conforming to standard behaviour in most word processors.
• Spelling suggestions now exclude words with characters unsupported by the dictionary’s encoding (which would use incorrect substitutes if selected).
• Words learned with an initial lowercase letter will also be recognized when written with an initial capital.

Minor Improvements

• Moved the Automatic Quit setting to its own tab in Options:General.
• Updated the Short Story project template with minor text changes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could be caused by typing a wiki-style link in RTF Scratchpad notes when Automatically detect [[document links]] was enabled.
• Fixed a crash caused by using a custom text-based icon that consisted of whitespace characters only.
• Fixed a bug whereby stray spaces at the end of a folder or file group name might not be removed on export, creating an invalid Windows directory that could not be deleted or renamed in File Explorer.
• Fixed the Jump to Selection command not working in Scrivenings mode.
• Fixed a bug that temporarily removed the editor margins after rolling back a snapshot, causing text to go directly to the edges of the editor.
• Fixed a bug whereby toggling Show Invisibles in a Scrivenings session caused the text to scroll to the vertical middle or to the lowest scrolled position.
• Fixed a bug whereby the Page View keyboard shortcut was not disabled in Scrivenings mode, where the command is not available.
• Fixed a bug whereby copying and pasting text with a 6.00inch right-indent would change the indent to 0 in the pasted text.
• Updated the look-up link for Edit ▸ Writing Tools ▸ Look Up in Dictionary.com.
• Fixed a bug whereby newlines were not reliably discovered when using Find Next and Find Previous.
• Fixed a bug whereby creating a new document from the text editor positioned the new item based on the binder selection rather than the editor’s focus.
• Fixed the display of text attributes when selecting text right to left, which previously showed formatting of the text just left of the selection.
• Fixed the highlight search in Find by Formatting, which previously might skip instances or fail when searching for a specific colour.

This minor update fixes a few important bugs that cropped up in the recent 1.5 upgrade and is a recommended update for all users running 1.5.

Bug Fixes

High priority

• Fixed a layout bug whereby stacks could have their contents shuffled.
• Fixed an auto-size layout bug that could cause notes (or whole stacks) to move to different areas of the board.
• Fixed a bug whereby the
  Format ▸ Note Style ▸ Copy Note Style
  menu command would not properly copy.

Minor fixes

• Cleaned up title bar drawing, where a bright line could be seen in dark mode, on dark boards, in some conditions.
• Fixed an external crash in the Quick Look and icon preview thumbnail generators, which could trigger upon viewing Scapple boards in Finder or other contexts that would use icon previews.
• Fixed a layout issue whereby the top of the board might be drawn underneath the title bar, which could cause notes to be hidden at higher zoom levels.
• Fixed a bug whereby updates to the Note Styles list would not be alphabetically sorted until reloading the board.

This is an extensive overhaul of the underlying code, modernising and converting most of the codebase to Swift. As a result of adopting this new programming language from Apple, the minimum supported operating system is now macOS 10.15.0 “Catalina”.

If you have attempted to update from an older system, and find yourself with a copy that no longer runs, please visit our legacy download page to fetch an older copy of the software.

Compatibility

• Adjusted Spotlight module’s code signing, which has changed in macOS 15.
• Fixes made to Quick Look and icon previews to support new methods in macOS 15.
• Disabled previous
  Ctrl-Return
  behaviour to allow for keyboard access to contextual menu in macOS 15.
• Fixed crash on loading a .scap file with a background texture found in macOS 15.2+.

Refinements and Changes

• Board textures now attempt to detect the overall lightness of the image, and adjust the foreground colour appropriately, when the
  Default Color
  is cleared in the Document Settings area of the inspector.
• Improved adaptive foreground colour handling in contextual cases where a shape or note background is different from the overall board background. E.g. black shapes on a white board will no longer host black on black notes.
• Native macOS window tab support has been restored. This will mean the window now always uses a native toolbar instead of sometimes showing the background colour of the board within it.
• Experimental live dragging mode added, which shows notes and connections move in real time. Use the Shift key while dragging and dropping to use it.
• Shift-clicking on a note or shape that is partially out of view will scroll the canvas until it can be fully seen.
• The
  Replace All
  button will now replace text found in connector labels.
• When stacking notes together, the width of each note is now respected rather than changed to match the width of the first note. If you prefer stacked notes to have even widths, use the
  Notes ▸ Make Same Width
  command.
• Blank documents that have never been saved or modified now conform better to standard behaviour, closing quietly in the background when another document is opened.

Optimisation

• The Sparkle framework, used to check for and install upgrades for the direct-sale version, has been upgraded to the latest version. This should reduce excessive requests for update checks on some older systems.
• Optimisations have been made to overall board drawing speeds, which may reduce stuttering and lag when scrolling, panning and zooming under some circumstances.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug whereby dragging two notes by their connection line would cause a crash in macOS 13 “Ventura”.
• Fixed a bug that could cause some boards to silently fail to load.
• Fixed a bug and would cause some boards to not save, throwing an error dialogue stating that “there was a problem creating the XML data”.
• Fixed issue with connection labels printing and exporting to PDF as white-on-white if the board itself was dark and the
  Default Color
  was cleared.
• Fixed a crash whereby typing a ‘dead key’, such as
  ´
  , meant to be combined with a letter, like “é”, would cause a crash if typed into a board without a note open for editing.
• Fix issue where dragging an image note could lead to the app hanging for several seconds.
• Fixed bug whereby multi-byte fonts, such as Japanese or Korean, would not properly hold inline formatting applied to portions of the text within a note.
• Fixed copy and paste issues that could cause multiple notes to have their text combined into the same line rather than being separated by newlines.
• Reverted to standard native window title bar, which has resolved:
  • Issue of title bar graphics being drawn at the top of the screen in native Full Screen mode.
  • Drawing issues that could result in zooming or resizing the window causing the solid title bar to “flicker” on and off.
  • Inability to use native window tabbing.

Minor fixes

• Fixed issue with the cursor colour not following the board’s current foreground colour, causing it to become invisible in some cases.
• Fixed crash on adding new notes to connection lines that also contain labels, in .scap files that were originally created with the Windows version.
• Modified inspector’s behaviour to end the editing of notes when it is opened, to avoid issues with modifying a notes appearance while it is being actively edited.
• Fixed issues where stack order was corrupted by array ordering, where stack order sometimes produced unexpected results.
• Fixed a display bug which would cause exception reporting to use black text on dark grey, when in Dark Mode.
• Fixed bug that would cause stacks to break formation, when editing notes within them that contain multiple lines.
• GUI layout fixed in the RTF and RTFD export dialogues.
• Fixed bug whereby notes containing more than one line would not auto-fit after editing the note, when applicable.
• Fixed bug in style storage and application whereby the Size attribute was not properly read when loading an existing board, and would be subsequently lost once saved.
• Fixed bug whereby changing the text colour while editing a note would not set the note colour upon concluding edit.
• Fixed bug whereby the text content of Scapple boards were not being saved into the Spotlight index.
• Fixed bug whereby under some conditions multiple save confirmation dialogues could be presented, when closing a new unsaved board.

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Scrivener 3.4 requires macOS 10.13 or above (10.12 is no longer supported by Apple’s latest developer tools).

Refinements and Changes

Writing Tools Support

• Improved support for Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. On systems where Writing Tools are available, a new “Writing Tools” menu appears in the Edit and contextual menus, allowing you to use Apple Intelligence to proofread, summarise, and make rewrite suggestions.
  • Note that Writing Tools are a system feature provided by Apple. Scrivener itself contains no AI. At the time of writing, Writing Tools are only available for US English.
• Writing Tools suggestions now appear in a panel.
• To avoid confusion with this new macOS feature, Scrivener’s own erstwhile “Writing Tools” menu has been renamed Edit ▸ Reference Tools. “Linguistic Focus” has been moved into Edit ▸ Spelling and Grammar. With this reshuffle, the selected word and character counts have been removed from the contextual menu, as the footer bar now shows these selection stats anyway.

Export

• Improved right-to-left text support in ebook export.
• Updated the built-in version of MultiMarkdown to 6.7.0.
• Updated the Basic Pandoc compile format to use ePub version 3 by default.
• Pandoc export now uses the Pandoc 3 --split-level command to split ePub files rather than the old Pandoc 2 --epub-chapter-level.
• The Pandoc Compile setting “Split chapters at level” can no longer be set to anything less than 1.

Miscellaneous Enhancements

• The “Superscript ordinals” setting now works for French as well as English. The option is hidden for other languages, where superscript ordinals are either not used or not available.
• Writing history is now saved during manual saves if any text has changed. (Previously it was only saved on project close or when the date changed.)
• Copying text now includes style information in RTF pasteboard data.
• Added a little extra padding around text in the format bar buttons.
• Updated the .scriv project thumbnail generation code for macOS 15, so that icons continue to display as expected in the Finder.
• Added 0x7F to characters affected by Zap Gremlins.
• Minor updates to the tutorial project.
• Improved documentation in the General Non-Fiction (LaTeX) project template.

Bugs Fixed

Major (Stability)

• Fixed a bug whereby an exception would be thrown if you closed a Copyholder while an inspector or footnote was being edited.
• Fixed bug whereby opening a PDF from project search could cause a spike in RAM usage and hang the app because search highlights were being applied inefficiently.
• Fixed bug whereby editing image names in Scrivenings wouldn’t trigger an autosave and such changes would be lost.

Minor (Usability)

• Worked around a bug in the NaNoWriMo word count APIs which resulted in the word count updater showing the old word count in the success dialogue after updating the NaNo servers.
• Fixed a bug whereby if you collapsed a folder in the binder that contained an item whose title you were editing, the new title could be assigned to an item below the folder.
• Fixed bug whereby the style to delimiter in Script Settings wouldn’t work correctly with auto-complete. For instance, in Stage Play UK formatting, hitting tab after a character name inserts a colon and a tab, and the colon should be bold like the preceding character name. However, the bug meant that the colon would not be bold.
• Hopefully worked around a TextKit redrawing bug that could occur when hitting return or backspacing from an empty line in page layout mode (Text below the return character would not redraw in some circumstances.)
• Fixed a bug whereby freeform corkboard coordinates could get messed up when duplicating folders or when switching between folders or groups using the freeform corkboard.
• Fixed issue whereby not all MultiMarkdown formats were available in the Compile format editor.

Export and Compile

• Fixed a bug whereby recto and verso pages would be off if a cover page was inserted during PDF compile. A blank page is now inserted after the cover if any sections are set to start on a recto or verso page.
• Fixed bug whereby descenders cut be cut off on some pages when printing or exporting to PDF.
• Fixed bug whereby captions would not be converted to MultiMarkdown correctly when beneath a table whose last cell was blank.
• Fixed an issue whereby the current UI language would determine the language used by certain export settings rather than the preferred system language.
• Fixed a couple of bugs that could prevent new page headers from working correctly in RTF and DOCX export.
• Fixed bug whereby a newline at the end of a footnote could cause an extra return character being inserted after the footnote marker in exported ePub files.
• Fixed bug whereby footnotes inside blocks such as block quotes would create unexpected HTML in ePub export.
• Fixed bug in the MMD OpenOffice Document compile format whereby multiple indexing keys in one paragraph would be formatted incorrectly.

UI

• Fixed bug whereby constraints debug info could sometimes be shown (a purple border would appear around the affected window).
• Fixed bug whereby text would be cut off when using page view with vertical text layout.
• Fixed bug whereby “Words to ignore” list could use dark text against a dark background in dark mode, instead of using white text.
• Fixed drawing issues in lined index cards in the inspector.
• Fixed bug that could cause the full screen paper width and height to be wrong in new projects when set using the Use current composition settings for new projects button in Settings.
  • (Note that if you have encountered this bug, you will need to click Use current… again to fix the underlying values.)
• Fixed issue where Compile would allow you to add project styles such that duplicate style names could exist, when this should be prohibited.
• Fixed layout issues and ghost controls in the Footnotes and Comments area of the Compile format editor for plain text.
• Fixed a bug whereby dragging and dropping text could result in the text cursor being too tall.
• Worked around a macOS bug whereby some of the content of the text image resizing panel would be blank in some circumstances if Keyboard Navigation was turned on in System Settings.

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Looking for the previous version of Scrivener? If the current version is giving you difficulties and you would like to downgrade, please download 3.3.1, below. All recent updates are incremental bug fixes to the core 3.3.2 update.

Restored Features

• Restored the PDF/X-1a option for PDF export. This had been temporarily removed because of a bug in the development tools that resulted in a crash on Intel machines running Big Sur.
• Reinstated the Auto-Completion settings from 3.3.3 and earlier. These had been temporarily removed to work around a crasher on Sonoma.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in 3.3.5 whereby only the first footnote on each page was included when printing or exporting to PDF, which was a side effect of some of the page view fixes for Sonoma.
• Fixed a bug whereby “Style to” in the script settings may not work correctly when tabbing after typing was set to insert only a tab.
• Removed the “Reduce file size” options for PDF files from Compile. These options rely on Quartz filters, which no longer seem to work in recent versions of macOS.

Scrivener 3.3.4 improves overall stability, addressing the following issues:

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug on Intel machines whereby the effects of the centre and right options in scriptwriting settings were swapped.
• Fixed a crash in page view mode when zoomed on macOS 14.
• Fixed a crash on macOS 14 triggered while typing with auto-completions turned on (especially prevalent in scriptwriting mode). This was caused by a conflict between auto-completions and Sonoma’s new inline predictions. Scrivener’s auto-completion Settings have been updated to accommodate this.
• Fixed a bug that would cause page view to take a long time to lay out, and which could also cause a crash during layout.
• Fixed a crash that could be triggered after closing a project if composition mode had been used.
• Fixed an issue where labels without titles would draw incorrectly in footer bars.
• Adjusted the way line positions are calculated in synopsis areas, which for some users was causing a crash upon entering composition mode.
• Changed the way projects monitor Settings changes to try to work around a rare crash.
• Modernised the way UI translations are stored and handled, which will make improving translations easier in the future.

Scrivener 3.3.3 addresses the following issues from 3.3.2:

• Fixed bug on Sonoma whereby if the ruler was shown in dark mode, the editor would appear blank.
• Fixed crash on M1 machines running Big Sur. (This has involved removing – for now – the Compile option to convert PDF files to the PDF/X-1a format, because the third party library we were using for this was the cause of the crash. We hope to be able to restore this option in the future.)
• Fixed bug with non-English UI files not being updated for 3.3.2.
• Fixed some issues with the size of the new text cursor on Sonoma.
• Removed Apple’s nonfunctional options from the PDF view contextual menu and ensured that pop-up notes in PDF documents appear as read-only.

Refinements and Changes

Ready for macOS 14 Sonoma

• Updated for macOS 14 Sonoma.
• On macOS 14, Scrivener uses Apple’s new system-wide, iOS-like text cursor. Because Apple provides no way of making the new cursor wider, the options in Scrivener’s “Editing” preferences to change the width of the cursor have been removed on Sonoma.

Changes

• Because the version of the MultiMarkdown converter bundled with Scrivener only supports macOS 10.14 onwards, MultiMarkdown formats that require the converter are no longer available on macOS 10.13 unless an external version of MultiMarkdown is installed.
• To avoid inconsistencies in the UI, styles shortcuts are no longer remapped for international keyboards, but always use 1-9.

Bugs Fixed

Major (Stability)

• Fixed bug that could cause a crash in Scrivener on first launch.
• Fixed crash triggered by importing certain Word documents.
• Fixed bug whereby comments spanning more than one paragraph in imported Word documents could cause a crash or not be applied to the correct range.

Minor (Usability)

• Fixed bug whereby “Center” and “Right” paragraph alignments in script settings were inverted.
• Fixed issue whereby spell-checking underlining might only affect partial words.
• Fixed bug whereby “Convert Smart Quotes to Straight Quotes” would not work properly if the system smart quotes contained more than one character.

Import

• Fixed bug whereby structured document text in .docx files would not be imported, which could cause some text to be lost in imported Word files created in Google Docs.
• Fixed issue where comments attached only to empty lines in Word documents would not import properly.
• Fixed bug in Import Styles when importing styles from another project whereby certain styles may not be imported or may replace existing styles.

Export and Compile

• Fixed bug whereby hierarchical levels were not exported properly in .docx files.
• Fixed bug whereby “No Cover Image” setting in Compile for the PDF and ePub formats was never remembered.
• Fixed minor issue with cover declaration in OPF for ePub 2 files.

UI

• Fixed bug on macOS 14 whereby the images of certain buttons would be missing.
• Fixed bug on macOS 14 whereby the title of the selected item in some menus would be missing.

Other

• Fixed issue that could cause third-party tools to report a code-signing error when probing Scrivener’s app bundle.