BETA 1.7.0.4 Released on 6th April 2014

[LAP]

Hi Folks,

I'm very pleased to announce our fourth beta. I believe we are getting very close to another free-official update now. This beta addresses 120 bugs, tweaks and refinements. All in all, Scrivener for Windows 1.7.0.4 is looking great. These past six month, on our bug fixing bender, have been painful, but has paid off I believe in terms of quality. We'll let you be the judges. Enjoy!

For a detailed list of new features and bug fixes in 1.7.0.4 beta see the following post:
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=26006 (for beta 1 fixes)
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=26182&p=169865#p169865 (beta 2 fixes)
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivenerforwindows/Beta/Scrivener-1703-installer.exe (beta 3 fixes)

This post pertains to the 4th beta release (1.7.0.4) and addresses the fixes we've made since 1.7.0.3 released on the 1st March 2014.


Beta 1.7.0.4 download is here:
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivenerforwindows/Beta/Scrivener-1704-installer.exe

A brief overview of fixes addressed in this beta include the following:-
- Cannot modify compile formatting
- Keyboard navigation of corkboard should wrap
- Spell Check should start at insertion point
- Cannot select and modify elements in compile formatting
- Must "Undo" twice to undo inspector note creation
- Import warning not displayed on drag & drop
- Cannot export annotations/comments to footnotes/endnotes in DOCX
- Suggestion: Interprete MMD quotation mark as quote for BBCode copy
- Use default Label/Status title in search when blank
- Compiled metadata formatting (missing empty lines, incorrect ordering)
- UI tweak: Fields are Blank dialog text adjustment
- Format > Convert should be available without selection
- Main toolbar icons missing
- Expand/Collapse all subdocs w/ keyboard
- Multimarkdown title hashes not compiling
- Lead italics of inline footnote affect marker in RTF/DOC/DOCX compile
- Scrivener Link disappears from Edit menu
- Can't edit Scrivener Link
- Can't apply formatting preset to multiple paragraphs
- Remove Formatting/Ruler/Line Padding in MMD Compile
- MMD Titles don't have hashes on compile
- Add New places at top instead of bottom of binder
- UI tweak: Editor context menu in text view
- Dialog title and subtitle text and icon consistency
- Compile replaces unique images with same name
- Inline annotations capture all text between them
- Inspector synopsis sticks if text selected
- Crash when cancelling web import
- Default Save As Picture type
- Arrow keys disable Outline submenu
- Split in Full Screen does not switch to the new document
- Binder recolours tabs beneath it as black
- Cannot Move Focus to Binder when viewing collection
- Mousing over link switches I-beam to pointer
- Editor Undo of a text colour action scrolls to top of buffer
- Context-menu paste into Project Notes goes to editor when using Keep On Top
- Add option to import webpages as plain-text
- Error exporting files and folders with special characters in title to DOCX
- Can't use arrow keys to navigate across Scrivenings
- Manage Project Notes… should always be available from notes header
- Export and Compile to FDX loses all ruler settings for elements
- Alt-click checkboxes in compile formatting
- Prefix uses title formatting when on separate lines
- Can't undo comment colour change
- Spell check window disabled and does not remain on top
- Disable "Add Selection" button in Name Generator when no selection
- Move directional commands disabled when using Alt accelerator shortcut
- Tweaks to compile formatting Text Formatting dialog
- Disable "Manage Project Notes" in Full Screen inspector
- UI tweaks to Edit menu
- UI tweak: Dictionary name in Corrections
- Directional Move commands not disabled when invalid action
- Remove "Revision Color" from Find by Formatting
- Drag & drop creates extended selection when no previous selection
- Drag special folders between projects
- Script element menu hotkeys inaccessible when footer bar hidden
- Toggling inline notation within note removes note formatting
- WebArchive format unsupported
- Split from container text places new document illogically
- New item in Outliner does not match Binder behaviour
- Web Page Import into Draft inconsistent
- Adjacent linked footnotes and comments lost in RTF compile
- OK/Apply in Options changes inspector display
- Add minimize, maximize, restore down buttons to Name Generator
- Convert to Default Text Style does not preserve Small Caps
- Cell background colour not saved in tables
- Scrivener links not opening in Full Screen
- Undo after document split duplicates text
- "No Text Loaded" for Comments & Footnotes inspector pane
- Inspector should show project notes or references for multiple selection
- Front matter menu too narrow
- Selection in synopsis automatically extended
- Save As Template fails silently when including invalid filename characters
- Disable formatting for plaint-text formats in Compile
- Alt-Tab does not return focus to Full Screen
- Synopsis image not deleted when document trashed
- Binder Affects setting not saved into project UI settings
- Mac features lost after editing project on Windows
- Duplicated items' metadata not recognized in search collections
- Editor displays non-existent document after merge
- Binder Affects setting not saved with layout
- Maximised window layouts shrink already maximised project
- Project Notes should be not be always on top
- New items not appearing in outliner
- Crash when clicking into Scrivenings session
- Auto-Load Feature Triggers in Scrivenings View
- Disable non-override text in Compile formatting pane
- Update default formatting presets (Essay Block Quote Preserved)
- New documents in Scrivenings session
- JPGs converted to PNG in compile
- Footnote text moved to main document when followed by annotation
- Add to Collection changes document in editor
- New projects start with previous project's inspector view
- Save As Template doesn't save editor or inspector views
- Enter in binder selection menus should confirm rather than opening submenu
- Move Focus To should have dynamic Binder item
- Sort applies to binder regardless of focus
- Linked split editor does not update when document duplicated
- Linked Image copied as static
- Incorrect syntax for referenced networked drives
- Folder title size formatting tweak for the Original compile preset
- Initial number placeholder tag ignored when "not on page one" set
- Footnotes incorrectly affecting compiled word count
- View Enclosing Group in Full Screen loads in regular editor
- Copy and Paste drops equation data
- Editing a MathType equation can cause duplication
- Comments and footnote incorrect in FDX compile
- Placeholder tags do not compile for ebook TOC
- Extra bullet line added to list in PDF/Print compile
- Inline footnotes in lists compile with list formatting
- <$pagecount> limited to RTF/DOC/DOCX compile
- List numbering/bullets compile incorrectly
- Referenced .txt opens in editor
- Manage Layouts options do not apply settings
- "Cancel" in compile does not cancel switching compile presets
- System language not applying
- Directional moves on corkboard
- Splitting a document does not carry over meta-data
- Option to set number of recent projects in menu
- Prefix/suffix is not included in TOC
- Merging cells and changing colour hangs or crashes Scrivener

Lee & Tiho
Scrivener Development (Windows & Linux)

[narrsd]

An amazing list of polish, Lee and Tiho...downloading,
and am very confident it will be wonderful

Best,
Clive

[dorybertsche]

Hi,
I was so excited to see this beta version because I'd hoped it would add a custom meta-data function. Is there any way to add that feature to Scrivener for Windows? The lack of it has me looking for other software. It is my only complaint about your otherwise wonderful software.

Thanks!
Dory

[tg2k]

Hi,
I was so excited to see this beta version because I'd hoped it would add a custom meta-data function. Is there any way to add that feature to Scrivener for Windows? The lack of it has me looking for other software. It is my only complaint about your otherwise wonderful software.

Thanks!
Dory

I hope it gets added soon too. In this thread early last year, KB said custom metadata was coming in version 2.0.

[CherylRainfield]

An incredible list of changes. Thank you!!

Er...I'm still trying to import web pages in Scrivener for Windows for my research. (I saw it on my friend's Mac version of Scrivener, which is part of why I was excited about Scrivener.) Even with this new beta, I still can't get it to save a webpage as a pdf or a webpage and be able to view it in Scrivener. Can anyone else with this beta; am I doing something wrong or does it not work yet? I SO want it to work. That's my biggest dream fix at the moment (though there are others). Meanwhile...still learning the program. I'm enjoying playing with metadata.

take care,
cheryl

[robertdguthrie]

Nope, it's not just you. I tried to import http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla as a PDF, and just got a blank white page. I tried another webpage, http://sluggy.com (a web comic), and only got the banner advertisement.

But this is a bug in the beta, not a feature limitation of Scrivener. Once Lee gets it worked out, then you'll have this feature too.

[MimeticMouton]

I believe the problem importing webpages as PDF is that there's no feedback provided to Scrivener about when the download and conversion is complete, so it's time based, and in some cases (slower machines, more complex pages) that may not be enough time for everything to download. We're working on the problem, but for now there are three other routes you could take for loading the page content in Scrivener:

* Import the webpage as plain-text instead of PDF
* Copy and paste from the browser
* Save As PDF or Print to PDF from the browser and then import the PDF

You could also download the page as MHT and then use Open in External Editor to view it in Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.

[narrsd]

Whoops - post here belonged beneath your forum item, so put it there...

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=26936&p=173596#p173596

[Sigurd]

Wow. Just wow!

Go go bug hunters!

[macwood]

*drums fingers* Sooooooooooo waiting for this update!!!

Thank you all of you who have been working them fingers to the bone. I so appreciate all the hard work you put into the software. It means so much to me that you guys work to labor on making a quality product.

Thanks for the news, and the update! I just downloaded the beta, and I will keep an eye out for issues. So far all of my issues with Scrivener prior to the beta were all easy fixes. You guys really work hard to make this look easy.

Again, thank you!

[macwood]

A BUG: I was going through the icon change of the binder folders, in the character template sheets, and Scrivener just closed itself out.

[macwood]

And it has done it two more times. When I was in corkboard in the character folder.

[MimeticMouton]

A BUG: I was going through the icon change of the binder folders, in the character template sheets, and Scrivener just closed itself out.
And it has done it two more times. When I was in corkboard in the character folder.

This sounds like it's the same bug causing a few different crashes that have been reported, related to having an empty corkboard display. We're working on fixing this and expect to have an updated beta release sooner than usual. In the meanwhile, switching the group view mode to the outliner (on a folder that does have subdocuments) may help avoid the crash.

[macwood]

A BUG: I was going through the icon change of the binder folders, in the character template sheets, and Scrivener just closed itself out.
And it has done it two more times. When I was in corkboard in the character folder.

This sounds like it's the same bug causing a few different crashes that have been reported, related to having an empty corkboard display. We're working on fixing this and expect to have an updated beta release sooner than usual. In the meanwhile, switching the group view mode to the outliner (on a folder that does have subdocuments) may help avoid the crash.

Awesomesauce!

I have been playing with it all day and that is the only bug I have found. You guys are amazing! Thank you for your hard work and your help!