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Balt
Posted: September 8th, 2005, 7:11pm Report to Moderator
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Anything else that will retain the proper format it was written in? I write with Sophocles and have to go back and edit everything again after my script is done, just to submit it here and it's a pain in the ass.

I got Adobe but it won't let me convert anything to it. I can't even open up a doc in it.

I have Final Draft and it lets me save in PDF but not open it up in PDF... I'm stuck! I have a slew of screenplays I'd like to send in here but I don't wanna edit them over into word pad... I'd kinda like it if I could just carry them over in their original form.

Is there was way I can do this? Any help is met with much thanks!

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Try PrimoPDF, it's a free program... I've never used it but heard good things.


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That's the thing with those bastards at Adobe.  The reader is free, but if you want to do anything useful, like actually save a file, the charges kick in.

But I got sick of having my stuff never look the same way twice with those damn Word files, you know?  So I took the plunge.

Their website will give you a trial with five free online file conversions.  That is what I am doing now.  When those run out, you can "subscribe" for unlimited conversions, or do it on a piece by piece basis.  Or sign up fresh under a new e-mail address, perhaps.

I think the "free" ones have a big, honking ad for their services at the bottom of each page, and I don't want that...


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Signing up with a new email address works for me. I have FD7 but the PDF files it creates are absolutely frikkin huge so I convert using the Adobe trial. I also heard something about CutePDF being good but never tried it.
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I *ahem* acquired a free copy of Acrobat Professional, and use that to covert, as I'm working with a Legit copy of FD5 which doesn't have the PDF making facility... Acrobat is quite readily available in the kind of places you would look for such items, if you wish to go down that avenue...


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I use either http://www.gohtm.com when I'm at work. or I use PrimoPDF (www.primopdf.com) at home. The Primo program "prints" the file into PDF format so however the file would look when printed, that's how it would look as a pdf. No need to purchase or "borrow" any version of Adobe. I was signed up for the online converter for 9.99 per month for awhile, but stopped once I found the free stuff.

Those should be quite sufficient.


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Thanks for the good tips, George.  I will check these out.


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George, do either of those two programs allow you to combine two, or more, existing PDF files into one binder?

If so, I might look into them as Acrobat is huge...


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Neither of these do, but there is one called pdf995 (www.pdf995.com of course) that also has a pdf editor, of sorts. I say of sorts because I haven't fully figured out how in the word to get it to do much other than combine pdfs into one single pdf file.


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does anyone know how to convert from an fdr file to a pdf file
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You can convert and .fdr file to a .rtf file which is readable by most word processing programs.  Click 'save as' and pick the .rtf file.


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If you can make an fdr file you have final draft so save it as a pdf or rtf... I don't get how this is even a problem.


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dogglebe
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Only Final Draft 6.0 and on will allow you to save as a .pdf file.  The earlier versions won't.  I have 5.0 and see no reason to upgrade.


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