General: Printing a page range or selection Answer: When you choose File > Print, you will see Fade In's own Print dialog, which allows you to specify a variety of screenplay-specific output options, including revision colors, ...
General: Resolution on Windows HiDPI displays Answer: If fonts appear jagged when running on Windows on a HiDPI display, it may be necessary to disable display scaling for Fade In. That can ...
Getting Started: Linux: "error while loading shared libraries" Answer: If, when running Fade In from the command line on Linux, the application fails to start and you receive an error like:
fadein: error while loading ...
Formatting: Creating a Character List or List of Locations Answer: For some purposes, you may need to create a list of characters or locations to appear before page 1 of the script.
The easiest way to ...
Formatting: Inserting a page break Answer: You can insert a page break by placing the insertion point on an element and selecting Format > Page Break Before. To remove page break ...
General: Unable to save an open document Answer: If you are unable to save an open document, please ensure that you have permission to save in the desired location. The means of checking ...
Formatting: What font should I use? Answer:
For screenplay documents, it is recommended to use a screenplay-specific Courier font. These can be found at www.fadeinpro.com on the Download page under "Extras". Courier Screenplay and Courier ...
General: Bad formatting/punctuation alignment on Windows Answer: If you are seeing misalignment of formatting (such as bold and italics) or of punctuation (such as the parentheses before and after a Parenthetical element), ...
General: Antivirus software Answer: Many antivirus software solutions, particularly on Windows, may occasionally and incorrectly misidentify software as unsafe. This is referred to as a "false positive" and is ...
Formatting: Quick Reformat on a Mac Answer: If you're on a Mac, in order to use number-key shortcuts for Quick Reformat, you'll need to make sure System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > All ...
General: What is the refund policy? Answer: Obviously the hope is that you'll be totally satisfied with the software, and every effort will be made to address any issue or difficulty you're ...
General: Does Fade In come in a boxed version and/or on disc? Answer: Fade In is a digital download product; no physical discs are shipped. That’s for a couple of reasons:
Because Fade In is updated frequently for free ...
General: Adding a word to the spell checking dictionary Answer:
To add a word to the dictionary for the current document, right-click on the underlined word (i.e., what the application thinks is misspelled) and select Learn.
To ...
General: How to use templates in other page/paper sizes Answer: By default, included templates are US Letter size. But what you can do is select the new page/paper size under Document > Page Layout, then ...
General: Export to Movie Magic Scheduling or Movie Magic Budgeting Answer: Currently it is not possible to export directly to Movie Magic Scheduling or Movie Magic Budgeting. Normally that would be done using Movie Magic's Scheduling ...
Formatting: Creating a title page Answer: A title page is like a little “sub-document” within your screenplay document. It just isn’t visible all the time. You can switch to it to ...
Formatting: How to cheat or adjust page and line length Answer: There are a number of things that you can do to adjust (or cheat) page and line length.
1. Use Format > Adjust Line Length and either ...
General: Fade In fails to start on Linux Answer: If Fade In fails to start after installing when, for instance, double-clicking the launcher icon, try starting it from the command-line, i.e., ./fadein from the directory /usr/share/fadein.
If ...