![]() ![]() ![]() Try to import a PDF of a play’s script, and Highland has a little bit more trouble, but it’s still readable and usable. In situations like this, I wish Highland offered some sort of batch-change option it includes support for OS X’s basic Find and Replace feature, but that tool doesn’t quite offer the flexibility to quickly fix an entire script’s formatting issues. Scripts formatted in Final Draft’s play format are a little trickier for Highland: It doesn’t quite know how to format these lines, and character slugs run next to dialogue. The app translated most of the scripts to Fountain flawlessly, with only a few goofs-for example, the page breaks of one PDF, when translated, resulted in an extra character line with no dialogue. I tested Highland’s import process on several screenplays-both Final Draft and PDF format-and I was pretty pleased with the results. That’s not to say that students and budding filmmakers can’t solely use Highland to produce their work, but if you need some of Final Draft’s advanced tools-templates, revisions, outlining, scene view, Tagger-you’re going to want to export it from Highland and move it to Final Draft. Highland is thus very clearly designed as a supplementary tool, rather than an outright replacement for Final Draft. The conversion to and from FDX is what gives Highland true legs in the filmmaking community: While it’s great to be able to write without Final Draft’s toolbar in the way, the screenwriting app has many powerhouse features essential to professionals when prepping secondary and final versions. ![]()
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