Scrivener (software)
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Original author(s) | Keith Blount |
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Developer(s) | Literature and Latte |
Initial release | 2007-01-20 |
Stable release |
Mac OS X 2.6.0 / October 20, 2014 [1] Windows 1.8.6 / March 11, 2015 [2] |
Preview release | Linux 1.7.2.3 BETA [3] / July 22, 2014 |
Operating system | Mac OS X, Windows (iOS in development / Linux in Beta) |
Type | text editor, personal information manager |
License | proprietary (shareware) |
Website |
www |
Scrivener is a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors.[4] Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research and whole documents for easy access and reference (documents including text, images, PDF, audio, video, web pages, etc.). Scrivener offers templates for screenplays, fiction, and non-fiction manuscripts. After writing a piece of text, the user may export it to a standard word processor for formatting.
Features
Features include a corkboard, the ability to rearrange files by dragging-and-dropping virtual index cards on the corkboard, an outliner, a split screen mode that enables users to edit several documents at once, a full-screen mode, and "snapshots" (the ability to save a copy of a particular document prior to any drastic changes). Scrivener allows photos to be dragged into its interface as well. Because of its breadth of interfaces and features, it has positioned itself not only as a word processor, but as a literary "project management tool," and includes many user-interface features that resemble Apple's software-development environment Xcode.
Platforms
Keith Blount created, and continues to maintain, the program as a tool to help him write the "big novel", allowing him to keep track of ideas and research. It is built mostly on libraries and features of OS X from version 10.4 onward. In 2011 a Windows version of the software was released, written and maintained by Lee Powell.
Macintosh
The latest version of Scrivener for Mac OS X is version 2.6.[5]
The direct sale version can be installed on Macs running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later. The same version can be obtained from the Mac App Store, but since the Mac App Store application only runs on 10.7 and later versions of Mac OS X, is not available for purchase or installation on OS 10.6.
The company also makes Scrivener 2.5 available for earlier version of OS X, but claims it is "the final version of the software that was built to run on PPC or Intel systems running OS X 10.4 or 10." This version is available on the direct sale page in the sidebar titled "Mac OS X 10.4–5 and PowerPC".
In addition to the Scrivener version 2 releases, the direct download page provides access to the obsolete version 1.54, but licenses are no longer available for purchase. The 1.54 release is compatible Mac OS X versions 10.4 through 10.6.
Windows
The latest version of Scrivener for Windows is 1.8.6.[6]
The Windows version is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
Linux
There is no official release for Linux, but there is a public beta version.[3]
References
- ↑ "Change List: Scrivener Mac OS X". Literature and Latte. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ↑ "Change List: Scrivener for Microsoft Windows - 11th Mar 2015". Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Scrivener 1.7.2.3 Linux beta released 22nd July 2014". Literature and Latte. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
- ↑ "Review". New York Times. 6 January 2008.
- ↑ http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivChangeList.php#version-2_6
- ↑ https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivWinChangeList.php
External links
- Official website
- Review at Applegeeks, 2007 February 20.
- Review at MacUser, 2007 February.