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 ...
Fade In Mobile: Syncing with other online services Answer: Fade In and Fade In Mobile currently work with Dropbox (the former by basic integration, the latter by necessity).
There are, of course, other cloud services, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
General: How to use Fade In on a Chromebook Answer:
Although Fade In does not currently run directly on Chrome OS, there several ways to run Fade In on a Chromebook at the moment. (Chrome ...
General: Does Fade In include a grammar checker? Answer: While Fade In includes both live and on-demand spell-checking (with additional third-party dictionaries available in many languages) it In does not currently have a grammar ...