The Format As drop-down menu is all about the visual layout of the final product. ![]() If you want it to look like something you’d submit to an editor or agent, choose Standard Manuscript Format. If you want it to be more like a paperback book, choose Paperback Novel. When you compile for PDF, the format you choose depends on what you want the final output to look like. (If you’re using a Front Matter folder that’s outside the Draft folder, the cover document needs to be the first document in the Front Matter folder, and you need to check the option to Include Front Matter on the Contents tab of Compile.) It outputs the documents in the order they appear in the Binder, so if you want your cover file to come first, it needs to be at the top of the Draft/Manuscript folder. Scrivener won’t know the document is your cover file. Scrivener grays out options when it doesn’t know where the result would go. Make sure you can see your cursor blinking on the blank page. If Edit>Insert isn’t an option, I’m guessing you didn’t click into the text document in the Editor first. If you’re getting that error, it means you’re trying to drag the image file itself into the Draft folder, rather than into the document that’s in the Draft folder. Then drag and drop the image from the Binder (or your computer file system) onto the blank page. To insert the image into that document, you need to select the document in the Binder so you can see its blank page in the Editor (where you type). Jeff: Yes, adding new document is adding “new text” to the Binder (under Project>New Text). Okay, so I adjusted all the images in the Word doc and saved it as a PDF…ta-dah. I’ve tried compiling for Microsoft Word thinking I could just add the cover myself but the images inside the book are either missing or 200 times bigger than they should be. I’ve tried all the things I know but they won’t highlight.Īlso, when I Compile for a PDF, is it Manuscript Format or still E-Book format? I’ve tried each individually and together. The “Image From File” and the “Image Linked to File…”Īre not highlighted. To add an image to your Draft, either drag an image into the text of one of the documents, or place the cursor where you wish the image to be placed in the text and use the Edit > Insert menu.” Well… The Draft folder can contain text and folder documents only. I did that, then tried to drag a PNG and/or a JPEG into the new “text” and out of desperation I also tried a new “Folder” and this is the error message with text and folder: “Media files cannot be dragged into the Draft folder. When you say “…add a blank document into the Binder…” does that mean inserting a new “text” into the Binder. So far it doesn’t matter (front matter), but if I’m inserting a document into the binder, how does it know that it’s the book cover and to place it at the front of the book? Which right now doesn’t matter because I can’t get the image into anywhere. Reverse engineering time, while writing this to you I actually found a solution but it’s jerry-rigged and I really would like to know what I’m doing wrong. The file contents appear in the Editor (page of text in the center). To edit or view the file, select it in the Binder. The imported file now shows up under the selected folder. You may get a warning about converting the file to RTF format. same hierarchy level as the Draft, Research, and Trash folders.)Īlternatively, you may right-click the folder (Control+click on a Mac) and choose Add->Existing Files.Ĥ. (Or you may click in the blank area at the bottom of the Binder to import the file to the root level, i.e. In the Binder, select the folder where you want to store the imported file. Want to import a document, image, PDF, spreadsheet, or presentation? This procedure works for anything except a web page.ġ. Okay, ready? Here’s how to import anything into your project. ![]() ) That’s where Scrivener sends files when you delete them (to give you a chance to change your mind). TIP: Don’t store things in the Trash folder. the Research folder, or a folder you create). ![]() Image files, PDFs, web pages, and other non-text type files must be stored somewhere outside of the Draft folder (e.g. The Draft folder (also called Manuscript, Screenplay, or something else depending on which template you chose when you created the project) can only hold text documents.
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