Losing comments after scanning Pages doc
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 8:00 am
Hi community,
I am running into an issue with the "Scan Open Apple Pages document" function. This likely has to do with Scrivener, but it's not all clear to me.
Scrivener text has comments (attached to words in the text) and Bookend citation markers. After compiling a Word document with Scrivener, opening it with Apple Pages (let's call it version A). Then applying the Scan command mentioned above. In the resulting new document all comments and most of their attached words in the text have disappeared, sometimes replaced with a space. If the comment was in a table row, that whole row is gone. The bibliography has been processed correctly. This is a serious issue for me, as I have to have comments in order to interact with reviewers.
A freshly created Pages document with comments does not show this issue (let's call this version B). So it is likely connected to how Scrivener creates the comments. When comparing the contents of both version A and B in BBEdit, one can see that the files have a different structure.
But: When exporting Pages doc "A" into a .docx, then reopening the result again in Pages and storing a Pages file (= version C), the comparison shows that both B and C have the same file structure. Yet, bookend-scanning file C still creates the faulty result with missing comments and missing words. I cannot find a workaround.
Sigh. Any idea how to fix this? Maybe there is some deeper level issue with how comments are stored. On the surface, files look identical. I cannot make more sense of in in BBEdit, as data in Pages files seems to be encoded in some fashion, making them unreadable to the human eye.
Thanks for any tips.
Bookends 13.1.5, Pages 7.3, Scrivener 3.1.1
I am running into an issue with the "Scan Open Apple Pages document" function. This likely has to do with Scrivener, but it's not all clear to me.
Scrivener text has comments (attached to words in the text) and Bookend citation markers. After compiling a Word document with Scrivener, opening it with Apple Pages (let's call it version A). Then applying the Scan command mentioned above. In the resulting new document all comments and most of their attached words in the text have disappeared, sometimes replaced with a space. If the comment was in a table row, that whole row is gone. The bibliography has been processed correctly. This is a serious issue for me, as I have to have comments in order to interact with reviewers.
A freshly created Pages document with comments does not show this issue (let's call this version B). So it is likely connected to how Scrivener creates the comments. When comparing the contents of both version A and B in BBEdit, one can see that the files have a different structure.
But: When exporting Pages doc "A" into a .docx, then reopening the result again in Pages and storing a Pages file (= version C), the comparison shows that both B and C have the same file structure. Yet, bookend-scanning file C still creates the faulty result with missing comments and missing words. I cannot find a workaround.
Sigh. Any idea how to fix this? Maybe there is some deeper level issue with how comments are stored. On the surface, files look identical. I cannot make more sense of in in BBEdit, as data in Pages files seems to be encoded in some fashion, making them unreadable to the human eye.
Thanks for any tips.
Bookends 13.1.5, Pages 7.3, Scrivener 3.1.1