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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide Celtx won't write your script for you, but it will ensure it has the format and features demanded by the film industry. Learn to use Celtx along with insider secrets of screenwriting and script-marketing into the bargain.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
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ISBN-13 9781849513821
Length 376 pages
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Obtaining and Installing Celtx FREE CHAPTER 2. All those Wonderful Writing Features 3. Visualizing Productions Ahead of Time 4. Tools for Getting Organized 5. Tooling Up for Scriptwriting 6. Advanced Celtx 7. Writing Movies with Celtx 8. Documentaries and Other Audio-Visual Projects 9. Raising the Curtain on Plays 10. Audio Plays, Podcasts, and Other Great Sounds 11. WAP! POW! BANG! Writing Comic Books with a Punch 12. Marketing Your Scripts List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps Future Development of Celtx Pop quiz—Answers

Printing our play


Once our play is written, we want to send it out for formatting into a PDF file. We do this in all Celtx scripts by left clicking on the Typeset/PDF button at the bottom of the main script window, as shown in the following screenshot:

Our play is sent out on the Internet, formatted, and returned to us in a matter of seconds. Once more, this is very secure and the Celtx formatting servers do not keep a copy of your work. It's just a way of extending the power of Celtx for us.

At the top of the main script window is the Format Options button (see the following screenshot). We can choose the size of the paper (for the PDF, not your printer), the International or American formatting versions, show scene numbers (Both, Left, Right, None), and Show Title Page & Cast (which I'll explain in the next section, it's neato!).

When formatted into a PDF, the American version play looks like the one shown in the following screenshot:

The international looks like the following:

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