I used to use it all the time and I thought it was pretty darn useful, till I upgraded to FD like a lot of other people.

It was a good program at the time, it was only in retrospect that I realised how many flaws it has. Now I can't believe I put up with it for so long. I agree with Austin that its a messy program. The complete lack of control over the title page is what I remember hating most.

I bit the bullet and got myself FD and now I'd never use anything else. I still say its the easiest, most creative scriptwriting software there is. Just my opinion.

I've been using Celtx for awhile now, and I recently updated to the latest version. I have to say that it's taking a little bit of getting used to.  

The new typeset feature is just an extreme pain in the ass, but at least it relieves the issues in regards to page count accuracy that were found in previous versions.  Also, the total page count doesn't seem to  display anymore, like it used to in the old version.

I do have a copy of FD, but it's onyl version 5 and doesn't export to pdf.  I can use one of the conversion sites to take care of that problem, but I prefer the look of exporting directly from Celtx.

Also, Celtx doesn't have a revision mode, which will probably be the main reason I'll be picking up the latest FD in the near future.

Thanks for all the replies! Nice to read a few opinions. I must say, I like the fact that celtx combines everything, so that I have some character sketches at hand and not in a different file somewhere... but I anticipate a world of hurt when I want to copy-paste some snippets I've written with a word-template into celtx.

I agree totally with ABSteel that you don't need fancy stuff to write a script, but I hate losing time tabbing/spacing when I'm writing dialogue

Quoted from Shelton I do have a copy of FD, but it's onyl version 5 and doesn't export to pdf.

Mike, download and install CutePDF and then you can print to a PDF file - and you can do that directly from FD. Problem solved .