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Hello, all. I was wondering if anyone has any info they could offer to get an *.fdr file to open where I am getting the message of "Unexpected File Format"! I originally wrote the script using FDR5, but now I have Final Draft 7. I cant see how this has anything to do with it, as out of all of the other scriptwork I have from FDR5, this is the only file that I cannot seem to open. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can open this? I have tried various methods using word, etc. to try to somehow convert/open/access it, but no luck so far. I actually asked a Data Recovery shop if they could work with it, but they had a $65 minimum charge and for no guaranteed results, I figured forget that. This is for a script that I wrote a few years back, that I had originally saved on a floppy as a backup, but those have since become nearly extinct. Nevertheless, I tried to make a copy but somehow something was lost in translation as I cannot open my draft and I no longer have access to the floppy. There will be notes and the like in the draft, that I was thinking at the time I was working on it, otherwise, I could just re-type the whole thing off of my one hard copy from 7-8 years ago. I did a little research in this forum where this problem came up 2 years ago for another member, but couldnt find any info on it since, so I apologize if there is info here that I am not finding. Any help you can give is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I didn't want to start a new thread. We have lots of threads and not enough questions in them.
Anyway, I recently reinstalled FD7 on my PC (Didn't want to use it on my PC but my serial number is not working on my laptop) the problem I am having is that every time I go to save as .pdf it says "Invalid printer" or something along those lines.
FD7 worked on my vista machine before so it can't be a "Vista" problem as my Google searches have led me to believe but since this is probably the bigger market for actual users of the program I figured someone else has this problem or has solved it.