# Scrivener 3.1.2 — Version 3.1.2

- Product: Scrivener (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrivener)
- Vendor: Literature & Latte
- Date: 2019-02-18
- Version: 3.1.2
- Original notes: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/downloads/3_1_2.html
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrivener/releases/3.1.2
- Labels: Platforms: macOS

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- **changed** — Ebook tables are now more flexible, allowing for multi-line cells and different alignments within cells and between rows
- **removed** — Removed limitation whereby header and footer fonts chosen for RTF and Office formats needed to be used in the main text as well
- **changed** — Remove all hyperlinks in Compile now removes page number and footnote links in PDF files too
- **added** — When compiling to PDF format, a new Reduce file size option along with Compression Settings allow you to determine how images should be compressed or resampled
- **added** — When using the Compile option to resize images to the page width for RTF and Word files, you can now determine the DPI
- **added** — When using the Compile option to resample images in ebooks, you can now determine the DPI and maximum size of the images
- **added** — It is now possible to add trim and bleed marks to PDF files via Page Settings in the Compile format editor, which can then be turned on or off via a new Add printer marks option
- **removed** — Removed Copyright from Office Compile metadata options since it had no effect
- **changed** — During Compile, Scrivener now strips any list formatting from paragraphs that do not contain a tab and are thus not valid lists
- **changed** — Improved support for a mix of links and code spans when converting rich text to MultiMarkdown
- **fixed** — Exclamation marks preceding MultiMarkdown footnotes are now escaped during Compile
- **changed** — MultiMarkdown export now uses the extension .md by default instead of .mmd
- **added** — Scrivener now contains a brand new, native, in-house converter for Word .docx files, available optionally via Preferences
- **changed** — When the Java-based Aspose converters for creating Word and Office files fail, Scrivener now falls back on the in-house converter rather than the low-fidelity Apple converter
- **added** — You can now assign Keep with Next to Section Layout prefixes and suffixes
- **changed** — Keep with Next now works over a maximum of five successive paragraphs instead of two
- **changed** — Keep with Next now works with empty paragraphs
- **added** — Comments now record the user name, and Word and RTF import and export preserve comment author information
- **added** — Added Copy to Project to the Documents menu and contextual menus, with keyboard shortcut Shift-Opt-Cmd-C for repeating the last copy

Scrivener 3.1.2 Change List
Refinements and Changes
Compile
- Ebook tables are now more flexible, allowing for multi-line cells and different alignments within cells and between rows.
- Removed limitation whereby previously the header and footer fonts chosen for RTF and Office formats needed to be used in the main text as well.
- “Remove all hyperlinks” in Compile now removes page number and footnote links in PDF files too.
- When compiling to PDF format, there is now a new “Reduce file size” option along with “Compression Settings” which allow you to determine how images should be compressed or resampled. Using these options can significantly reduce the file size of PDF files which contain a lot of images.
- When using the Compile option to resize images to the page width for RTF and Word files, you can now determine the DPI. This allows you to reduce the size of exported files.
- When using the Compile option to resample images in ebooks, you can now determine the DPI and maximum size of the images. This allows you to reduce the size of exported files.
- It is now possible to add trim and bleed marks to PDF files via “Page Settings” in the Compile format editor, which can then be turned on or off via a new “Add printer marks” option in the main Compile window.
- Removed “Copyright” from Office Compile metadata options since it had no effect.
- During Compile, Scrivener now strips any list formatting from paragraphs that do not contain a tab and are thus not valid lists. This avoids unexpected numbering being added to paragraphs that have stray list formatting left in them.
- Improved support for a mix of links and code spans when converting rich text to MultiMarkdown.
- Exclamation marks preceding MultiMarkdown footnotes are now escaped during Compile.
- MultiMarkdown export now uses the extension“.md” by default instead of “.mmd.”
Converting to Office Formats
- Scrivener now contains a brand new, native, in-house converter for Word .docx files (affecting import, export and Compile). Because this converter has not yet been tested widely enough, it is turned off by default - by default Scrivener still uses the mature Java-based converters from third-party company Aspose, as it has been doing for several years now. If you would like to test the new converters, open Preferences and then, under Sharing > Conversion, turn off “Use enhanced converters for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice documents”. This will turn off the Aspose Java converters, causing Scrivener to use the new in-house .docx converter instead. (Note that this will also result in poor OpenOffice conversions, however.)
- When the Java-based Aspose converters for creating Word and Office files fail, Scrivener now shows a message to warn the user that Apple’s more basic converters will be used instead.
- When the Aspose converters fail, Scrivener now falls back on the in-house converter rather than the low-fidelity Apple converter.
Keep with Next
- You can now assign Keep with Next to Section Layout prefixes and suffixes.
- Keep with Next now works over a maximum of a five successive paragraphs (previously it worked across only two).
- Keep with Next now works with empty paragraphs.
Comments
- Comments now record the user name, so that if another user adds comments, that user’s name will show at the top of the comment. (A name is shown at the top of the comment if it differs from the current user name.)
- Word and RTF import and export now preserve comment author information.
Copy to Project
- Added “Copy to Project” to the “Documents” menu as well as to the binder, corkboard and outliner contextual menus. This makes it easier to copy documents to another project without having to drag and drop.
- “Copy to ‘project.scriv’ Again” also appears in these menus if you have copied any documents to another project during the session, and uses the keyboard shortcut Shift-Opt-Cmd-C. (Note that this shortcut was previously used by “Copy without Comments and Footnotes”. Those who

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