v1.4.0

[1.4.0] — 2026-10-15

Added

• Industry screenplay pages (rules ported from ScriptCraft): US Letter
  (54 lines) or A4 (58); a speech that breaks across pages gets (MORE) and
  the cue again as NAME (CONT'D), split at a sentence end and never after a
  parenthetical; scene headings and cues are never stranded at the foot of a
  page; action splits only with two lines each side; automatic (CONT'D) when a
  character speaks again in the same scene (toggle in the lined script bar).
  Eighths, the page markers, locked pages / A-pages and the screenplay PDF all
  use these same pages, so the page a call sheet names is the page printed.
• Dual dialogue: Ctrl/⌘+D or ⇉ Dual on a cue sets the speech beside
  the one above; it prints side by side and splits both columns on a page
  break. Fountain ^ and Final Draft <DualDialogue> round-trip — Final
  Draft dual dialogue used to import as one action line holding both speeches.
• Scene summaries and card colours: Final Draft index cards (summary and
  colour) and Fountain = synopsis lines import with the script, can be
  written in Reports → Scene list, export back out, and feed the one-liner,
  the stripboard and the breakdown sheets. A Final Draft summary no longer
  ends up glued to the slugline.
• Word-level draft comparison: the "Review revised screenplay" dialog
  shows, scene by scene, which lines were reworded (word by word), added, cut
  or moved. A reworded line keeps its linings and breakdown tags on re-import
  and gets the revision asterisk.
• Import PDF, Word, Celtx and HTML screenplays: a PDF is read by its
  columns (cover, scene numbers, wrapped lines, and speeches split by
  (MORE)/(CONT'D) put back together; page numbers, headers and revision
  asterisks dropped); Word documents by their element styles, or by indent
  when typed by hand; Celtx projects and HTML by their element classes. A
  scanned PDF (pictures of pages) says so instead of importing nothing.
  pdf.js loads only when a PDF is imported.
• Location picker on scene headings: ▾ beside the set lists the project's
  locations and the sets the script already uses. A new set typed into a
  heading becomes a project location when you move on, so it is in the
  Locations tab ready for an address.
• Final Draft fidelity: a Final Draft title page now imports; revision
  sets come in as this app's revision colours (the writer's starred lines
  stay starred, in their colour) and go back out; the paper and automatic
  (CONT'D) setting travel both ways.
• Multi-camera format (Lined script bar → Format): dialogue double-spaced,
  action in capitals, every scene on a new page, so a sitcom's pages and
  eighths are counted the way it prints. Travels with Final Draft files.
• Scene CONTINUED marks (toggle in the Lined script bar): (CONTINUED) at
  the foot of a page and CONTINUED: at the top of the next where a scene runs
  over, as production drafts print. Travels with Final Draft files.
• Page breaks in the screenplay editor: a dashed rule with the page number
  where each printed page starts (locked labels included).
• Element list: Enter on an empty line opens Final Draft's list of
  elements — ↑ ↓ or 1–7, then Enter; Esc closes it.
• Final Draft script notes import as script notes under the line they
  were attached to, and export back as Final Draft notes.
• Dual dialogue from PDFs: two speeches side by side import as dual
  dialogue.
• Character report: speeches, words, pages of their scenes and the page
  they first speak on, on screen and in the PDF. The scene report PDF gains
  the printed page each scene starts on. Both use locked page labels (12A).

Changed

• Final Draft's element flow in the screenplay editor: Enter after action
  is action and after a cue is dialogue; Tab at the end of a line starts the
  next element (action → character, dialogue → parenthetical), Tab / Shift+Tab
  on an empty line change its kind; Enter mid-line splits it; int. on an
  action line makes a heading; taking a character suggestion with Enter moves
  on to the dialogue.
• The screenplay PDF prints page numbers from page 2 and no longer prints
  script notes; without a cover, its title block is a slim line in the top
  margin so page one holds a full page of script.
• Fountain === imports as a page break.
• A shot that is not a standard shot call ("BIG HEAD OF MARA") is written to
  Fountain as !… [[shot]] and reads back as a shot instead of a cue.
• A continued dual-dialogue cue ("BARTHOLOMEW (CONT'D)") stays inside its
  column.
• Cast sides are laid out by the screenplay rules, on their compact page:
  (MORE) / (CONT'D) where a speech breaks, dual dialogue side by side,
  automatic (CONT'D), and no stranded headings or cues.

Fixed

• Final Draft outline paragraphs (acts, sequences) imported as action lines;
  they are kept as script notes now.
• A cue with a lower-case extension ("EDWARD (cont'd)") imported as action,
  taking its speech with it; found on a real production PDF (100 cues in
  Big Fish).
• Reports → DOOD opened the Schedule on its board when the browser could not
  save preferences (storage full or blocked); it now always opens the day out
  of days.

Migration

• Project schema v36 (stamp only): optional screenplayLayout (paper,
  automatic (CONT'D), format, scene CONTINUED), and
  dual / synopsis / sceneColor on script lines.
• Pages are now 54 lines (Letter), not the old 55-line estimate: eighths shift
  slightly, and a script whose pages were locked before may show an A-page
  where a locked page no longer fits — unlock and lock again to re-freeze.