Format library

What each screenplay format is, what it carries, and what it can't. Honest reference — no format is listed as supported until its conversion test suite passes.

• Fountain .fountain, .spmd — Fountain is the open, plain-text screenplay format: readable in any editor, friendly to version control, and expressive enough for the full screenplay vocabulary.
• Final Draft FDX .fdx — FDX is Final Draft’s XML interchange format — the de facto professional exchange format for screenplays, and the safest bridge to and from industry tooling.
• Plain text .txt — The universal fallback: classic screenplay layout in raw text. Everything reads it; nothing in it can surprise you.
• Word DOCX .docx — The word-processor route into screenplays: scripts written with screenplay styles in Word convert cleanly in both directions.
• PDF .pdf — The delivery format. Our export produces clean, correctly paginated Courier pages; free import reads text-layer PDFs and reconstructs structure heuristically.

The rescue queue

Dead screenwriting software shouldn't mean dead scripts. These formats are on our workbench, ordered by real user demand — the more people ask, the sooner it ships.

• Celtx project — ZIP container with script and production assets; script subset first. (planned)
• Adobe Story ASTX — XML dialect; paragraph types map well onto the canonical model. (planned)
• Open Screenplay Format (OSF) — Application-independent XML; import/export per the OSF SDK. (planned)
• Fade In — OSF-compatible XML with extensions; structure detection by content. (researching)
• Trelby — Python-ecosystem text/XML format; reverse-engineered subset after fixtures. (needs demand)
• ScreenJSON — JSON schema with strict validation; straightforward canonical mapping. (needs demand)
• Final Draft .fdw (binary) — Legacy binary Final Draft; parse only with a verified spec. (needs demand)
• Movie Magic Screenwriter — Binary; needs reverse engineering driven by real demand. (needs demand)

Trapped by a format not on this list? The converter&apos error messages accept your file's evidence — and your reports shape the queue.