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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 - using formatting options


Earlier in the chapter we learned about Page Setup on the File menu, which controls parameters for local printing. The Format Options selection on the Script menu has to do with global printing, or the information Celtx uses when it goes out on the Internet and formats our script into an industry standard PDF (Portable Document File, the standard for exchanging scripts). The Paper Size: box below lets us select US Letter (8.5 x 11 inches) or the European A4 size (8.27 x 11.69 inches) paper. When we use the TypeSet/PDF tab at the bottom of the main Celtx screen, the PDF file generated will be for the size of the paper that we specified.

Pagination shows approximate page breaks on our work screen. Actual breaks may be slightly different, but the Celtx servers that do the formatting out on the net ("in the cloud" as the latest jargon calls it) make sure it's done right. Checking Show page number on first page changes the default of having no page number...