Final draft 7 upgrade
The lack of a wysiwyg editing screen does not bother me at all. In this it is unlike FinalDraft and MM2K, which provide wysiwyg editing screens. You have to click on the print/preview to see what the actual page will look like. The big drawback to Sophocles for most people is that the editing screen is not wysiwyg ('what you see is what you get'). You can click on any part of the outline, and your editing screen moves to that part of the script. The outline window is a wonderful feature of the program. The Sophocles screen has an editing window at the right and an outline window at the left. By the way, you can set your screen colors to whatever you want in Sophocles.) This is a very FRUSTRATING drawback to an otherwise excellent feature in a nice screenwriting program.Īs for the Sophocles split-screen feature that Pencey mentioned, he is talking about this: You can resize it each time, but it is a pain to do so. I just wish that FinalDraft would please change the behavior of the note window so that you could resize it and have the program remember the size from the previous time. To revise or review the note you just click on the marker. The note has a marker in the text at the spot where you would want it to be. You can make notes to yourself about things that you want to improve, or whatever. You are really missing out on something if you are not using it. The 'notes' feature of FinalDraft is its best feature. Who knows, I guess we'll just need to wait and see
Maybe they'll add Final Draft AV, so it's just one package. Pencey, what do you mean by "split screen"? Are you talking about having the script on one side, and a list of all the sluglines down the other side? Might be useful for revising.
Can anyone think of something else that would make this program more useful? I don't use the scriptnotes or any of the more advanced features (like the revision modes), I pretty much use it for straight typing. I'm curious as to what new features they'll add to 7 in order for it to be worth the upgrade.
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Also, speaking of title pages, right now there's no way to save a PDF without a title page, so that would be a nice option too. It's a ridiculously nitpicky point, but with FD you need to manually edit the template to do that. When I tried Sophecles, I liked the way you could automatically align date / address info at the bottom left or bottom right.
Well, actually, there's one minor point - it might be nice if it handled title pages a bit better. I really wonder what the differences will be in this next version, since it does everything that I could want right now. I find it convenient to be able to create a PDF in the program, but it's not necessary.
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Of course, if you own the full version of Acrobat or some other PDF software, then V5 is probably exactly the same thing. EJ - I'm pretty sure that the only major addition (that I actually use) in Final Draft 6 is the "Safe As PDF" feature.