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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 - exporting Scripts in detail


Celtx exports scripts as either text or HTML (click on Scripts then Export Script...), as shown in the following screenshot:

Exporting a script as text from Celtx preserves those leading spaces we need to import the script in Final Draft, Movie Magic, or other software. For many applications, this is sufficient, but—just like our problem with soft returns when importing from Final Draft—Celtx exports jumbled dialog breaks also.

Unlike our import trick of setting up a file printer, Celtx is one of the few pieces of software this technique will not work with. The reason is technical and has to do with Celtx being built (as we discussed earlier on) on top of Firefox's Mozilla engine. This has many advantages but a few disadvantages, like this one. We hope a solution for this annoying bug will be provided in the next release of Celtx.

Of course, I've got a work around for you! It requires a couple of intermediate steps, but works quite nicely. First...