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Overview

Easily preview and export your Fountain.io formatted scripts as PDF for sharing.

Check your Fountain.io syntax by previewing the entire document or make a selection to preview a section.  Generate a properly formatted PDF for sharing.

Parsing is done based on the Fountain.js library created by Matt Daly.  The library covers the vast majority of the commands used in day-to-day writing, but there are a few edge cases that do not behave as expected.  So far, they are:

* @ and ! markers are not handled properly

Please let me know any other issues you find.

Revision History:
Version 13 - Added limited support for Cyrillic characters
Version 12 - Hide section and synopsis text per Fountain rules
Version 11 - Create page breaks in the PDF output per Fountain rules
Version 10 - Partial fix to recognize some Unicode character names
Version 9 - Fix recognition of curly apostrophe in character names

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A User of Fountain Tools

June 3, 2019

Works well! Also, the developer responds quickly, when bugs arise.

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A User of Fountain Tools

August 31, 2016

Its pretty good dose its job. The marines for dialogus are not that nice.

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A user of Fountain Tools

October 1, 2016

Er, Pardon me from an old timer, but maybe I haven't played around with this enough. But just 'how' is a pdf made and shared? I feel like I'm living up to my 'technically challenged' moniker!

Mark Stouffer

August 11, 2016

Super helpful. I was able to spin up a script environment and start live co-writing in a matter of minutes, with no training hurdles. Preview sidebar works well (except for inline comments) and PDF export works well.

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A User of Fountain Tools

May 16, 2015

Needs some work before I can use it for real. The preview is in a narrow sidebar that makes it pretty useless. But worse than that, the final pdf output doesn't reflect proper screenplay formatting. The margins are completely wrong and the fonts are all over the place. I can't submit a script generated from this. I love that somebody is trying to achieve this! I hope the dev can sort it out!

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Brian Scott

March 16, 2015

Cool ADD-ON for fountain users ... but it's not great - YET! I have the following suggestions which would make this add-on amazing: ** Make the preview LIVE, to see real-time edits ** Have the preview & the document's vertical scroll be in sync with each other ** make the preview pane have a re-sizable width I WOULD PAY FOR THESE FEATURES!! ALSO: *** make the preview pane editable *** display page number and page breaks accurately (this is an edited review, based on my wish for this add-on to be developed further)

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