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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 - setting up a page


Clicking the Page Setup... selection on the File menu brings up the Page Setup dialog box which, in turn, has two tabs: Format & Options and Margins & Header/Footer. The following screenshot shows the first tab, Format & Options, which controls how the page looks when it prints locally:

Printing locally means, in this case, using the Print selection on the File menu (or the Ctrl+P shortcut) and printing to a printer that is either attached to our computer or is on a local network. This is meant only for internal use, such as proofing or passing around to others working on the project with you.

Printing globally (creating a final PDF script for distribution to the world) is a completely different process, even if you still plan to print it on a local printer and bind it. We briefly saw this in Chapter 1 (using the TypeSet/PDF tab instead of the Print selection). So this section, again, is for printing and proofing use while a project is in progress...