Scrivener

What works

After successfully installing, the program appears to be fully functional. I do not have the problem with >File>>Page Setup which another reviewer reported; when I click on the menu item the requester pops up allowing me to choose a page size, margins and layout and seems to function normally. I was able to import document files created under Windows and convert them from Scrivener v1 to v3 format. Everything tested so far appears to work flawlessly.

What does not

The supplied installer executable does not work and play well with the Winetricks uninstaller for automatic installation; I kept getting a “called Tcl_Close on channel with refCount >0” error every time I attempted to install. 

Workarounds

Once a clean 32-bit Wine prefix is prepared with the proper prerequisites (core fonts, dotnet 4.6.2 or higher, SpeechSDK 5.1), the 32-bit executable installer (available for download from the Literature & Latte web site; free 30 day trial) can be run from the command line in a terminal and the program will install normally and can be registered with a valid license number.

What was not tested

I have not tested physical output to a printer.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: proprietary

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