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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 my way


As mentioned earlier, in addition to Celtx's way of importing a script, there is also my way—that is, the method I've developed for script import. Using it, we can export from just about any program that formats scripts—Final Draft, Movie Maker, Word, and so on—and get a text file that will import into Celtx and be converted more accurately to script elements. Print to file!

Printing to file is an old formatting trick we used back in the dawn of personal computing, before PDFs, Postscript, and all the great new stuff came along. It gives us an exact text format including leading spaces (Celtx's conversion process relies heavily on leading spaces).

All we have to do is set up a generic text printer. The exact method of doing this will be in the documentation for your operating system. I've done this on XP and Vista and in Linux on Ubuntu (hint: find a generic text driver for CUPS). Mac users will need to check their manuals.

As an example, in Windows XP, go...