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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 - importing the Celtx way


A limited number of software packages can handle this for us. Looking at the following screen captured from my copy of Final Draft, we first do the import the Celtx way. In Final Draft, we simply click on File (up on the top menu bar just like in Celtx), then Save As. In the Save As dialog box, we ignore Plain Text (which would do the standard text export of stripping leading spaces) and instead pick Text with Layout (*txt). This latter choice retains leading spaces.

In Celtx, first open a new script of the type you are importing. Otherwise, the imported script will be appended to the bottom of whatever is currently open. Once that's done, click on Script (on the top menu bar), select Import Script... and we get the Import Text Script dialog box as follows:

Within a few seconds, the progress indicator (shown in the following screenshot) shows the script as having been converted and read into Celtx:

The following screenshot shows a script that has been...