General: Can Fade In open Final Draft screenplays? Answer: Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software can open a wide range of documents format, including Final Draft.
Final Draft version 8 (.fdx) documents can be imported and ...
General: Can Fade In open Movie Magic Screenwriter screenplays? Answer: Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software cannot, currently, open Movie Magic Screenwriter (.mmsw) documents directly. Unfortunately .mmsw is a closed, proprietary format and the makers of ...
General: Printing in Linux Answer: If you are having difficulty printing from Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software under Linux, try installing the libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui libraries. Fade In will automatically use these if ...
General: Keyboard navigation of dialogs on Mac Answer: In order to enable keyboard navigation of dialogs when using Fade In on Mac — particularly helpful with things like the Reformat dialog — you'll need to ...
General: Additional Table Read voices Answer: The virtual table read function under Document > Table Read uses the voices installed on your system for its built-in speech functionality. (These are different on ...
General: Importing Microsoft Word documents to Fade In Answer: Fade In doesn't import the Word .doc format directly. But what one can do is export from Word as RTF or formatted/unformatted text and import ...
General: Difficulty printing directly to a printer Answer: If you're having difficulty printing directly to your printer, one workaround is to try the following:
Output to PDF using either File > Create PDF or File > ...
Formatting: Page numbers are missing Answer: If page numbers have disappeared from your document or are otherwise not showing up, check to make sure that there is a page number placeholder ("#" ...
Formatting: Dual dialogue Answer: To format dialogue by two characters as dual dialogue (i.e., simultaneously spoken), simply select/place the insertion point on the first character element and select Format > ...
Getting Started: Startup problems Answer: In the rare situation that Fade In has trouble starting up (such as a crash, etc.) it may be necessary to delete the application's saved ...
General: Where are autosave files located? Answer:
If you have backups enabled under Preferences > General, period backups will be saved of your work. Where they are saved depends on the operating system.
(Note: ...
Formatting: A font is not appearing when using Create PDF Answer: It is possible that a font which displays fine while editing and outputting using File > Print may not appear at all when using the built-in ...
General: Unwanted autocorrections Answer: Sometimes, due to interaction between Fade In, the dictionary used for the document, and the way something is typed, it may be "autocorrected" incorrectly, i.e., ...
Fade In Mobile: Transferring documents to and from Fade In Mobile Answer: The first method for transferring .fadein documents to and from Fade In Mobile is via a supported cloud service, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, ...
Fade In Mobile: Problems adding Dropbox account to Fade In Mobile Answer: If you get a blank screen when trying to authorize Fade In Mobile for your Dropbox account, try scrolling the window to the right a ...
General: Unable to purchase online Answer: If you are having difficulty ordering online — if your payment is declined or otherwise not completed — it may be due to a number of factors.
Ordering ...