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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.

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This update fixes a number of bugs that were found in the initial 3.1.5.0 update, including a flaw in Print/PDF output that could leave some text missing. It is recommended you upgrade at your next convenience, or before compiling anything important to PDF.

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

Refinements and Changes

• Adjusted the Dark Mode theme to use a darker text highlight for project search results, keeping the light-coloured text readable.

Note: If the Dark Mode theme is in use when upgrading to 3.1.5.1, you will need to switch to another theme and then back to Dark Mode to see the changes.

• Increased the adjustability of the text-to-speech rate and pitch sliders, allowing fine-tuned control of the settings.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug whereby arbitrary chunks of text could be missing from a compiled PDF.
• Fixed an error related to text-to-speech services that occurred on some systems and prevented Scrivener from launching.
• Fixed a bug whereby some imported webpages would not display in the editor and might prompt to select an alternative application to open the MHT file. This also fixes
  • A related issue of the Compile Format Designer window giving the same prompt.
  • An inability to complete the in-software purchasing of an upgrade or cross-platform discount.
• Restored copying and pasting formatted text from Scrivener to other applications like Word and OpenOffice Writer, which broke in 3.1.5.0 so that formatting was lost on paste.
• Fixed a bug whereby most paragraph settings were omitted when using Format ▸ Copy Formatting and ▸ Paste Formatting.
• Fixed a bug whereby after-paragraph spacing did not correctly apply when creating new list items.
• Fixed a bug introduced in 3.1.5.0 whereby the Notes Background colour in the Options:Appearance settings did not affect the interface.
• Fixed a bug whereby a custom Comments & Footnotes Area Background colour was not preserved through closing and reopening Scrivener when applied in any but the Default theme.

This is a major overhaul of the underlying code to modernise the infrastructure to Qt 6. As a result of this framework upgrade, the minimum supported operating system is now 64-bit Windows 10.

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

Note to Beta Testers: Because of changes to the registry made during the beta period, 3.1.5.0 beta 3 will not update cleanly to the official release. Please uninstall the beta version before downloading and installing the release version.

Refinements and Changes

• Scrivener has had a major framework upgrade to Qt version 6.4.3 and consequently is now a 64-bit application only. This upgrade also has changed the minimum required system version to Windows 10.
• Documents using fonts unavailable on the current Windows machine (such as in a project created on a Mac device) will now display in Arial while on Windows but will use the original font when reopened on a device with that font installed.
• Multiple items can now be loaded in the editor via drag and drop (previously only the topmost binder item in the selection would be loaded).
• The floating Quick Search window (which is used if the toolbar is hidden or the search bar removed from it) now remembers its position when closed and reopened.
• The spell check underline now appears much crisper on HiDPI displays.
• View ▸ Editor Layout ▸ Swap Editors can now have a custom keyboard shortcut applied.
• Menu commands and keyboard shortcuts have been added to Quick Reference windows for toggling and navigating the inspector, the Project Bookmarks sidebar, and the Format Bar.
• PDFs and images loaded in the editor can now be zoomed via the mouse scroll wheel while holding Ctrl.
• There is now an option to include beta releases as part of the automatic check for updates.
• Several default shortcuts have been adjusted for better consistency with Windows standards. Alt+F4 is now assigned to Close Project, and Exit Scrivener (which can close multiple windows, such that they will all reopen on launch per preference settings) has been changed to Ctrl+Alt+F4. Default shortcuts for inserting comments and inline annotations and for scrolling in Page View have also been adjusted to avoid the Alt+F4 combo. (All can be customised in the Keyboard settings of File ▸ Options.)
• Additionally, several default shortcuts using the Windows key have been updated for compatibility with Windows 11, which has made new use of them. These include the shortcuts for Navigate ▸ Inspect ▸ Notes and ▸ Comments and Footnotes, which have changed to Win+Alt+U and Win+Alt+O respectively; Navigate ▸ Outline Groups ▸ Previous Group and ▸ Next Group have changed to Ctrl+Shift+Up and Ctrl+Shift+Down. Format ▸ Paragraph ▸ Increase/Decrease Indents ▸ Increase Indents and ▸ Decrease Indents no longer have a default assigned, as these already use the same shortcuts as Edit ▸ Move ▸ Move Right and ▸ Move Left in text contexts (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right/Left). If you did not do a fresh install (or if you afterward restored your preference settings), you will need to choose Reset All from the Keyboard tab of File ▸ Options… to fully update the shortcuts.
• Scrivener now encodes the personal word list (“learned” or “ignored” spelling) in UTF-8 and saves to %LOCALAPPDATA%\LiteratureAndLatte\Scrivener\wordlists.txt to avoid conflicting with the ASCII-encoded wordlists.ini file from earlier versions. (The existing word list from Scrivener 3.1.4.1 or earlier will be copied to the new file when 3.1.5 first runs and preserved for previous versions of Scrivener to use, should you need to downgrade .)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could crash Scrivener when deleting a justified line item from a list.
• Fixed a bug whereby using Undo after adjusting list items restored the item’s indentation formatting but not the list level.
• Adjusted the list behaviour whereby selecting all items in a list and changing the bullet style away from hierarchical numbering might not set the new style for deeper levels.
• Fixed a bug whereby, after once editing text substitutions, further changes to the substitutions within the session did not take effect until Scrivener had been restarted or Enable Substitutions had been toggled off and back on.
• Fixed a bug whereby toggling most Revision Mode settings from within a Quick Reference window changed the menu appearance but did not affect the editor.
• Fixed a bug whereby dragging and dropping a document to a locked editor failed to break the lock and load the document.
• Fixed a bug whereby the Progress and Total Progress bars were not displaying in the outliner for script documents.
• Removed the nonfunctional document target button from the script mode editor footer. (Document targets and word counts can be set and viewed for script documents in the outliner.)
• Corrected a bug whereby snapshots used the editor background colour set in the Appearance Options rather than the snapshots background colour.
• Fixed a bug whereby Print Current Document would print the full binder outline rather than the outliner contents when focus was in an outliner displaying a multiple selection.
• Adjusted the accelerator key sequence for Edit ▸ Select ▸ Select Annotation | Select Footnote to the unique Alt E, S, O.
• Removed the duplicated Reset Idents to Defaults command from the Edit ▸ Transformations submenu. (This command can be found under Format ▸ List ▸.)
• Line height calculations for PDF printing have been improved with the newer Qt engine.
• Fixed a bug in PDF and Print compile formats whereby grouping endnotes by section when using auto-numbering placeholders in titles resulted in the numbers continuing to increment in the endnote section headings rather than correctly referring to the chapter number.
• Fixed a bug whereby the front and back matter controls in compile could be incorrectly enabled when compiling only a portion of the manuscript.
• Learned spelling words (in the personal word list) are now recognised after switching dictionaries without requiring a restart.

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Downgrading from 3.1.5 or higher?

If you are looking to download and install this version to downgrade from a more recent version of Scrivener (3.1.5 or higher), then we strongly recommend uninstalling and reinstalling the software. Instructions for doing so, and backing up your settings, can be found in this knowledge base page.

Refinements and Changes

• Implemented support for new auto-update streams.
• Added a new command Format ▸ List ▸ Reset Indents to Defaults to restore formatting of selected list text (or all lists in the editor if there is no selection) to the default indentation for each level.
• Scrivener’s Qt framework has been updated to version 5.15.14.
• Scrivener has upgraded to Unicode ICU 73.1, which may improve line wrapping for Japanese and Korean text.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause Scrivener to crash when searching for case-sensitive text across multiple snapshots.
• Fixed a bug whereby list formatting was damaged after reloading a project such that adding or moving items within an existing list indented them incorrectly.Note: This correction will apply to new lists created in 3.1.4.1. Existing lists can be manually updated via Format ▸ List ▸ Reset Indents to Defaults.
• Fixed a bug whereby editing the label of a custom metadata list item could change its internal ID number, causing documents in the project previously assigned that list item to instead display “None”.
• Fixed a bug whereby the Remove all styles setting in the options for Documents ▸ Convert ▸ Text to Default Formatting… changed styled text to the default formatting in the editor but failed to remove the assigned style.
• Upgraded the internal tool for importing websites, fixing an issue whereby pages from some sites such as Wikipedia failed to import.
• Fixed a UI bug that could cause an irremovable gap to precede the icons on the left of the main toolbar. You may need to reinsert custom gaps via View ▸ Customize Toolbars… after updating.
• Fixed a bug whereby each line break and carriage return decreased the live character count in the footer when using the option to count Characters no spaces.
• Cleaned up the Missing Dictionaries warning to appear only when Scrivener is first launched rather than each time a project is loaded.
• Adjusted the behaviour and warning message shown if the currently-assigned spelling dictionary is missing from the Scrivener installation folder, prompting the user to re-download and temporarily disabling the spell check until the dictionary is available.
• Fixed the Replace and Find Next shortcut behaviour to work with focus in the editor and reassigned its previous default shortcut Ctrl+H to instead open the document Find/Replace dialogue. You can customise the shortcuts from the Keyboard tab of File ▸ Options….

Cursor Hotfixes

If you installed Scrivener or updated it on the 18th of January and are experiencing the following issues with the cursor, then download a fresh copy of the software, and run the installer over your current installation to apply a patch that fixes these bugs:

• Cursor visibility, selection drawing in the corkboard, or areas of the inspector that edit plain text, such as the synopsis or custom metadata fields.
• Scaling of the hairline cursor (if the block cursor option is disabled) when text editing areas are zoomed in or out.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash on File ▸ Print Preview or File ▸ Print Current Document when titles were selected for inclusion in the Print Settings.
• Improved editor accessibility, providing better compatibility with tools like ProWritingAid and Grammarly.
• Fixed a bug introduced in 3.1.2 that prevented document groups from loading as a Scrivenings session unless Treat all documents with subdocuments as folders was enabled in Options.
• Fixed several cursor drawing bugs, including the cursor replicating when using the keyboard to move from the start of a new line and part of the cursor failing to blink at the start of a new line with a line height multiple greater than 1.0.
• Fixed a bug whereby the block insertion point width failed to scale with the editor zoom level.
• Improved the appearance of highlighting, linked comment and footnote markers, search highlighting, style backgrounds, and other text adornments in the editor that are affected by certain types of line spacing.
• Adjusted the Documents ▸ Convert ▸ Text to Default Formatting… dialogue to remember the last used options.
• Updated the built-in templates to restore the inspector footnotes text colour, which was inadvertently set to black for all themes by 3.1.3’s introduction of separate colour options for inspector and inline notes.
• Adjusted Fountain export to always use UTF-8 encoding.

Refinements and Changes

• Scrivener’s framework has been updated to Qt 5.15.11, the most recent version compatible with 32-bit systems.

UI

• Scrivener’s title bar now adapts to the Windows dark or light mode Color setting.
• The Appearance tab in Options now has settings for both inspector and inline footnote text colours (under the Textual Marks tab). The “Inspector Footnotes Background” has also been renamed to simply “Footnotes Background” as it applies to both inline and inspector footnotes.

Compile

• Implemented the Add “first-letter” span style to first letter option for ebooks, under the New Pages tab in the compile format dialogue’s Section Layouts. This allows styling such as drop caps on the initial letter of the first paragraph in a document.
• The stylesheet CSS for ebook compile now includes a stock rule for the .separator class when any of the Section Layouts defined in the format contain a custom separator, though this can be easily overridden by creating a “separator” style.
• When an image is used as the document title prefix during ebook compile and no additional title text is included, the option to Update titles in document links with prefix and suffix settings will use the image name as the title.

Document Mangement

• Dragging and dropping text onto an existing text document in the binder now appends the text to that document rather than creating a new child document. (This applies also to dragging onto file groups when the optional behaviour to treat file groups as folders is disabled.)
• The Documents ▸ Merge behaviour has been refined to use a single return between merged synopses, economising space, and an empty line between merged notes. The divider between merged document text can be controlled by the Separators settings in File ▸ Options… under the General tab.
• New documents created at any level within a container that has set a default template for subdocuments will now use that template, including those created in the container via actions such as dragging and dropping text into the binder or using Edit ▸ Link to Document ▸ New Link. This is reflected in the Project menu, which shows the name of the template document in place of “New Text” when applicable. Standard new blank text documents can be created in these containers using Add ▸ New Text from the context menu or the Add button’s dropdown menu on the main toolbar.

Formatting

• Find by Formatting can now be used in Quick Reference windows and will always treat the scope as “Current Editor” (which has replaced “Selected Document” in the dialogue’s settings). Find Next/Previous Formatting and the standard Find Next/Previous commands have also been added to the Quick Reference window menu, enabling use of their shortcuts.
• You can now set a current project’s styles as the default styles for new projects from the Editing: Formatting tab in File ▸ Options… (and can reset to the original defaults here as well).
• The formatting of the media time stamp used for media transcription can be customised under the Playback settings in the Options’ Behavior tab. This formatting will also be used by the <$mediaPlaybackTime> placeholder available for insertion as part of the Tab/Return behaviour in script settings if no formatting is given in the placeholder itself.

Project Targets

• New projects from blank or the built-in project templates will now have Allow negatives enabled by default in the Project Targets.
• New projects from blank or from project templates without the Deadline option enabled in Project Targets now use their creation date for the (disabled) deadline.

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed a crash that occurred when right-clicking within the formatting editor in the compile format designer’s Section Layouts tab.
• Fixed a bug whereby certain image properties could be included when setting default formatting from a selection and subsequently cause embedded images not to display.
• Fixed a bug that could cause custom metadata list values assigned to binder items to shift when a new list value was created and saved anywhere but the end of the list.
• Fixed a bug that reverted some project target settings to the defaults after syncing with iOS.

Compile

• If compile is unable to create the final file when using a secondary utility to produce the output (such as Pandoc or a custom script added in the compile Processing tab), Scrivener now displays an error message indicating the problem rather than failing silently.
• The compile format setting to Update titles in document links with prefix and suffix settings has been fixed to work in ebook file formats.
• Fixed MultiMarkdown to ODT compile for documents containing images, which was previously resulting in a malformed ODT and a separate folder of images.
• Internal links are no longer stripped out when compiling using Pandoc → ePub.
• For supported file formats, the HTML Elements, MultiMarkdown Options and Pandoc Options settings in the compile format designer now properly convert assigned styles to semantic HTML elements or Markdown syntax.
• Fixed several bugs in the rich-text to MultiMarkdown conversion options in compile which were producing some incorrect syntax and, when only Convert tables and lists to MultiMarkdown was enabled, unintended additional conversions.
• Adjacent inline annotations of different colours now properly compile as separate notes rather than combining.

Document Management

• Separators for merged documents, appended text selections, and appended Scratchpad notes can now be properly set in the tidied-up General tab of File ▸ Options….
• Fixed a bug that, when a file group with a default template for subdocuments was selected, caused newly-created documents to use the template even when Treat all documents with children as folders was disabled in Options, so that the documents were created as siblings rather than subdocuments.

Formatting

• Fixed a bug whereby adding, modifying, or deleting inspector comments or footnotes to multiple paragraphs could mangle the formatting, for instance shifting a highlight or bold formatting to different or additional text. Also improved the Undo behaviour, which previously might treat comment manipulation as multiple steps instead of a single action.
• Toggling Use different formatting for new documents in this project in Project Settings should no longer impact existing documents.
• Fixed the Use Formatting in Current Editor option when setting default formatting to avoid picking up revision mode or inline notation formatting. This also fixes the bug whereby, after a revision level was set in the default formatting, all or most of the project’s text might appear in the revision mode colour after reopening the project.
• Fixed the Documents ▸ Convert ▸ Text to Default Formatting… behaviour to retain text colour and highlighting. (Text with a character style applied will revert to the style’s defined formatting.) Also fixed the conversion of text with a paragraph-only style, which was losing all character formatting including bold and italic.
• Applying the Convert Quotes transformation within a Scrivenings session now affects only selected text when there is a selection anywhere in the session; with no selection, the conversion applies to all text in the editor, including titles when Show Titles in Scrivenings is enabled.
• Edit ▸ Transformations ▸ Convert Quotes to Smart Quotes will no longer alter existing smart quotes within the affected text.

Editor Navigation

• Navigate ▸ Go To ▸ Selection now works on a multiple selection, loading the items in Scrivenings mode. (The menu name “Editor Selection” has also been changed to “Selection” to reflect that the command works from the binder as well.)
• Fixed a bug whereby activity in one editor split could cause the inspector locked to the other editor to show the wrong item’s metadata.
• Fixed a bug that, with a specific split-editor setup, caused clicking a document link in a snapshot to switch focus to the opposite editor and change the inspector view from snapshots to bookmarks.
• The behaviour of clicked links when working with locked editors has been refined to better match workflow expectations and provide a sensible fallback rather than failing to open.

Quick Reference

• Fixed the dropdown button for bookmarked groups in the Quick Reference sidebar failing to open.
• Spell check in Quick Reference windows is again accessible via the Edit ▸ Spelling menu and shortcut (broken in 1.3.1).
• Fixed the Open as Quick Reference context menu command failing from the Quick Reference bookmark sidebar.
• Fixed a bug whereby invoking document Find in a Quick Reference window would instead open the filter panel in the main window when the active editor was showing the outliner.

UI

• Removed Mac-specific text from the No changes found message on Sync ▸ with Mobile Devices.
• Added line wrapping to the tool tip for the Insert links back to Scrivener in each section option in the compile settings.
• Updated the in-app shopping cart.

Translations

• Fixed a number of translations that used incorrectly formatted pointers, resulting in placeholders like “%1” appearing in place of the project name or other custom text and preventing compiling to DOC, DOCX, and ODT file formats.
• Corrected broken translations in file extensions that could prevent saving exported or compiled files if the extension was not manually entered. (As a result, some menu text in Save and Open dialogues may not be translated in 3.1.2.)
• Removed the UI translations for the Look Up and Search options in the Edit ▸ Writing Tools ▸ submenu, as many of these mislabelled the site links.
• Updated a number of translations in the Simplified Chinese preview.

Miscellaneous

• Adjusted the binder behaviour to reduce the lag that occurred when dragging and dropping large items. The delay was caused by the undocumented ability to export binder items by dragging outside of the project; this has been removed, and items can be exported as usual via the File ▸ Export ▸ options.
• Fixed a bug whereby the Edit ▸ Sort functions could be applied in table cells, potentially damaging the table. These commands are now properly disabled within tables.
• Fixed multiple instances where an editor’s group view mode was not respected, typically switching to the corkboard, when loading a container through various means (such as when Find by Formatting found a match within a container’s text or when using Navigate ▸ Go To ▸ Previous/Next Document).
• Fixed a bug whereby Navigate ▸ Open ▸ in External Editor worked the same as Open ▸ Original URL in Browser for webpages, rather than loading the archived copy of the page contained within the project.
• Fixed a bug that could, when importing a style with Next Style assigned, set a character style as the Next Style if its name matched that of the paragraph style originally assigned.
• Fixed a bug preventing opening links from the bookmark preview in the composition mode inspector.
• Updated links in the Comic Script template.