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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

Time for action - using formatting options


Earlier in the chapter we learned about Page Setup on the File menu, which controls parameters for local printing. The Format Options selection on the Script menu has to do with global printing, or the information Celtx uses when it goes out on the Internet and formats our script into an industry standard PDF (Portable Document File, the standard for exchanging scripts). The Paper Size: box below lets us select US Letter (8.5 x 11 inches) or the European A4 size (8.27 x 11.69 inches) paper. When we use the TypeSet/PDF tab at the bottom of the main Celtx screen, the PDF file generated will be for the size of the paper that we specified.

Pagination shows approximate page breaks on our work screen. Actual breaks may be slightly different, but the Celtx servers that do the formatting out on the net ("in the cloud" as the latest jargon calls it) make sure it's done right. Checking Show page number on first page changes the default of having no page number...

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