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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Future Development of Celtx

Time for action - opening an existing project


Clicking on the second choice on the File menu—Open Project—lets us retrieve projects already in progress. The Open a Celtx Project dialog box materializes (like the gates in Portals, my screenplay I'm using for examples). The next illustration is in Windows XP, but you get a similar one in Windows 7, Vista, Mac, and on Linux systems. If the old file is not in the directory shown, navigate up and around your hard disk(s) in the standard way of opening any file in any program. When the project name you want appears (Celtx project names all have the .celtx extension, as shown in the following screenshot), double-click on that name (or icon) to open:

Just to be thorough, the following screenshot is an icon view of the same files as in the preceding screenshot:

The actual look depends on the type of operating system, of course, as Celtx uses that for file operations. This is another example of Celtx avoiding bloat by not duplicating already existing...