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TheBsK
Posted: April 8th, 2008, 12:19am Report to Moderator
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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.
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Old Time Wesley
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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.

Any help on that would be appreciated.


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mcornetto
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:18am Report to Moderator
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Use pdf995 to print your final draft document. http://www.pdf995.com
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Old Time Wesley
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Tried it and it works. I guess I will have to place title pages on the first page of the script from now on but at least I can save as PDF.


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On their site they have something called pdf edit.  It allows you to combine pdfs.  You can put your title page on using that.
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