Release v0.22.0 · cschweda/drafter

Export as HTML and EPUB, and open formats said plainly.

Export → HTML: one web page that opens anywhere. A script or Markdown document as a single .html file you can email or open from a USB stick — everything inside it, no internet needed, and nothing it fetches or tracks.
- Dark by default, with a light switch; it prints in light, one page per sheet.
- A script has two views behind a switch: Pages, exactly as they print, and Reading, reflowed for a screen with each character in a colour of their own.
- A band across the top shows the acts or scenes; click one to jump there.
- Your notes come along only if you choose Include notes, and only in the Reading view.
Export → EPUB, for an e-reader or a tablet. A script's Reading view, or a document chapter by chapter, with a contents list and real e-book footnotes; it reflows to the screen and the reader's type size. A new export of the same script replaces the old one on most e-readers.
drafter build script.fountain --html script.html writes the same web page from the command line.
Open formats. A new help page says what every file Drafter writes is — all open, documented formats you can read without Drafter — and links (as About does) to the open specification of the .drafter project package, in the public domain so any app may read and write it.
Open now says plainly that it can't open a web page or an e-book, and points you to the script it was made from.

Download

Windows

Linux (x64)

Drafter-0.22.0-linux-amd64.deb for Ubuntu 24.04 and later: sudo apt install ./Drafter-0.22.0-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.