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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

Write once, use many


That's always been one of my goals as a longtime professional writer, to use it as many times as I could. Celtx's Adapt feature does exactly that. You can, with one click, change formatting on your screenplay to a stage play or a comic book or any of the other formats which Celtx knows (and you can add additional formats as needed). That's pretty powerful.

Okay, I decide "Portals" would make a good comic also. To convert or adapt (in Celtx parlance), click on Script (top menu, see the following screenshot) and then select Adapt To. Then choose Comic Book:

Do a Save As and we have "Portals" now as both a Film project and a Comic Book project. I'll need to go through and add balloon types and a few other things, but everything is already in the correct industry standard comic book format.