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v0.20.0
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Formats: Fountain first, every main format out.

Drafter is built around Fountain, plain text that any app can open. This release makes it easier to bring scripts in, and says plainly what goes out.

  • drafter convert, from the command line. Turns Final Draft (.fdx), Highland (.highland), and Fade In (.fadein) files into .fountain files, one file or a whole folder at once (--recursive for subfolders, --out for another folder, --force to replace). It uses the app's own import code, never changes the originals, and writes each file whole.
  • Footnotes in Markdown documents. Write text[^1] and [^1]: The note., as on GitHub. The Preview gathers the notes at the end, with buttons to jump to a note and back; the PDF prints them at the foot of the page their reference falls on. Footnote text counts toward the word count.
  • Fountain first, and for novelists too. The welcome, the tour, the share image, the site's description, and the README now say what Drafter is: screenplays and stage plays in Fountain, novels and treatments in Markdown, exported to PDF, Final Draft, Markdown, and plain text. The README has a new Formats section listing everything that opens and everything that exports.

Fixes

  • A Markdown document nested hundreds of levels deep (which only a broken or hostile file has) now says "nested too deeply" at once, instead of holding the app up for seconds. A very long hostile heading can no longer slow typing either.
  • The Preview's lists show their bullets and numbers again.
  • The tour's first card can be scrolled from the keyboard when its text is taller than the card.

Download

Windows

  • Drafter-0.20.0-windows-x64-setup.exe for most PCs (Intel or AMD).
  • Drafter-0.20.0-windows-arm64-setup.exe for Windows on Arm.

Linux (x64)

  • Drafter-0.20.0-linux-amd64.deb for Ubuntu 24.04 and later: sudo apt install ./Drafter-0.20.0-linux-amd64.deb.
  • Drafter-x86_64.AppImage for other distributions.

An installed Drafter offers this update itself, or use Help → Check for updates…. See the Windows guide, the Linux guide, and the changelog.

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