Open Draft Screenwriting

A REAL FONT LIBRARY Around 185 fonts, grouped by what they are: screenplay, typewriter, serif, sans-serif, monospace, display, handwriting, and Noto for most writing systems. Search by name, and every font is drawn in its own face. Courier Prime 12pt is still what a new script is. BRING YOUR OWN FONTS Format > Fonts takes TrueType and OpenType files from the Files app. The family name is read from the font itself, so its weights group together, and your font is embedded in exported PDFs. Fonts already on your iPad are offered too, and you can add one by name - iPadOS will not list them. YOUR FONT TRAVELS WITH THE SCRIPT Open a script on a device without the font and OpenDraft substitutes the closest match of the same kind - a typewriter face for a typewriter face - rather than dropping everything to Courier. The name is kept, so the font returns when you open it somewhere it exists. THE TITLE PAGE IS PART OF THE TEMPLATE Title, Credit & Author, Draft & Date, Contact, Copyright and Notes are formatting elements like any other, so you can set the title in a display face at 24pt and leave the contact block in Courier. What you change by hand outranks the template and stays. CUT, COPY AND PASTE All three now work from the menus. Tapping a menu item takes the selection with it, so Cut and Copy silently did nothing and Paste never worked at all. Pasted text also keeps the font it came with, and a highlight copied from Google Docs, Word or Notes arrives formatted instead of plain. NO MORE DEAD ENDS Leaving a project pushed a second copy of the projects list rather than returning to it, so Back walked into the project again - and again, with force-quitting the only way out. The same fault was in four more places, including read-only history and collaboration sessions. ROOM FOR THE WINDOW CONTROLS In a windowed app, iPadOS draws its own three-dot control over the top-leading corner, and no inset reports it. Projects, a project's files, Settings, the treatment editor, the scene navigator's tabs and the floating menu button each put their one way off the screen underneath it. All of them now leave room, and clear the status bar full-screen on a notched device. BUILT FOR A FINGER The toolbar starts comfortable, and the menus, font list and dialogs have finger-sized targets. Tapping the font picker used to do nothing at all - it closed itself the instant the keyboard appeared. The close controls on the asset viewer, the zoom panel and the save-failure banner were all too small to hit. HEADERS AND FOOTERS Format > Header & Footer, out of the bottom of Page Setup, with buttons that insert the page number, title, date and revision colour as you type. Double-tap a header or footer on the page to type into it - {page} stays a live page number. "Show on first page" replaces a page-number box, and a script opening on front matter can start numbering where you say. FILES AND EXPORTS A .fountain file could come back with ** around its scene headings and the action beneath turned into dialogue; emphasis, scene numbers and unusual headings now follow the specification. Imported .fdx, .fountain, .fadein and Word title pages arrive laid out properly. Scene headings get the industry-standard two blank lines. Word no longer counts the title page, Final Draft export carries your header and footer, and Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian and Georgian export to PDF properly. RECOVERING UNSAVED WORK The recovery copy is written a moment after you stop typing, not every ten seconds, and now covers beats, notes, tags, profiles and page setup. Leaving for Projects or Settings saves first, and after a crash OpenDraft reopens the script you had open. FIXES Images are stored outside the document, so a photo no longer costs you crash protection. General keeps text you deliberately indent. Take Photo no longer closes the app. Fade In and Open Screenplay Format files open from the Files app.