#FINAL DRAFT 7 TITLE PAGE HOW TO#
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I still do not know if the PDF files turn out good or not.

I still do not know, but I took a quick look at some internet postings, and as I suspected, I saw some remarks about 'large PDF files' and some questions about font embedding.

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However, since I know that Microsoft always screws up at least twice before it gets anything right, I was suspicious about how good the PDF driver is.

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(I did not upgrade to Windows 10.) It is inexcusable that Microsoft had never before included a PDF creator. I did not know that Microsoft had finally included a PDF driver/creator as part of its operating system. Adobe established the PDF specification a long time ago, but it is an open standard it is not proprietary. Files are saved as PDF files, but that has nothing to do with Adobe Acrobat. The Adobe Reader is a free portion of that application, but many other readers are also available for free. Jon, I do not know what you really meant to say, but some of that is misleading or shows that you do not understand some things.Īdobe Acrobat is just the name of an Adobe application that creates and manages PDF files. The complete screenplay, including the title page, will be saved as a PDF in Adobe Acrobat. The PDF was enormous and did not print out nearly as sharply as a standard PDF. Why FD ever used a 'graphic image' approach to the PDF is a mystery as dark and unfathomable as the disappearance of Sophocles. I waited for a completely stable version. I waited for about two years before ever installing 7. Version 7.1.3 was the last version of 7, I think. It is very easy.Īnd, yes, the original version 7 of Final Draft was a monster.

#FINAL DRAFT 7 TITLE PAGE HOW TO#

See how to do this in my article on using PrimoPDF on my website. You just print the two parts and join them with PrimoPDF. PrimoPDF just prints the title page alone when you try that option.

I know it says 'Include Title Page' in the Print Dialog in FD, but I think the option only works when you use FD's own PDF utility. If you use PrimoPDF or another PDF driver like it, you have to print each PDF separately and then join them. So now they let you include the title page when you 'print' to PDF (provided that you use FD's own 'Print to PDF' option). That did not matter when you were just going to send out a hard copy, but if you are going to make a PDF it is helpful to be able to put it all into one PDF file. I think I am correct that with earlier versions, before PDF became such a standard, you had to print the title page separately. You cannot just paste a page onto the beginning of a document if you want to start your page numbering with page 1 on the first page of the script proper. To be fair to Final Draft (I am in a generous mood), the company was not being clumsy here. Man, I don't check the board for about 24 hours and all kinds of questions about PDF and other software spring up like mushrooms! Why is it that when I try to cut and paste title page into body of screenplay from Final Draft to send out as PDF the option to paste is not there? Why is title page separate from the screenplay in Final Draft? The title page automatically shows up on the saved PDF document. It's confusing that the Title page does not show up on the actual FD script.Īlso FD7's File dropdown menue has a SAVE AS PDF option, which saves some of your steps. Open the document and it will have a title page.Mike you should note that the little x is in the dropdown menue to the left of the File menue. look in the directory where you saved it and you should see a new PDF file of your script. You will see the save bar load across the screen and when done, close out the FD document. You have now created a title page in the FD script document, you just can't see it from the script pages.Īt bottom of the Save As window, there is a line for FILE NAME where you'll have the name of your document or title of your script.īELOW that is another line called SAVE AS with file types. In your script document, go up to DOCUMENTĬreate title page and close the 'little X' at top left hand side.this will close ONLY the title page and not the entire script. Let's make sure, just in case, you have the Title Page process correct in FD.

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