Scriptographer
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Scriptographer
From now on, changes will be tracked as the Blue revision.
Below is an overview of your revisions.
Easily create your own custom script format.
Rename any element. Leave blank to keep the default name.
| Scene Heading | |
| Action | |
| Character | |
| Parenthetical | |
| Dialogue | |
| Transition | |
| Shot | |
| SFX | |
| VFX | |
| Subheader | |
| Montage | |
| Act Break | |
| General | |
| Notation |
Used by formats like Stage Play (BBC), Radio Drama, and A/V (video/audio) scripts, where technical directions run down one column and dialogue runs down the other, each on its own row. Leave this off for a normal single-column format.
Choose which elements appear in the left column.
Add a watermark to your exported PDFs.
Edit the metadata of your exported PDFs.
Keywords should be comma-separated.
Automatically download save files after you edit your document.
Search for text in the document.
Attached to this element.
| Tab | Cycle element type forward |
| Shift+Tab | Cycle element type backward |
| Enter | New element (smart type) |
| Ctrl+1..7 | Set element type directly (core types) |
| Ctrl+8/9/0 | Set element type: SFX / VFX / Subheader |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo |
| Ctrl+Y / Ctrl+Shift+Z | Redo |
| Ctrl+S | Save (download file) |
| Ctrl+O | Open file |
| Ctrl+Shift+P | Export PDF |
| Ctrl+P | Browser print |
| Ctrl+Shift+G | Find (plain word search) |
| Ctrl+F | Find & Replace |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | Find Elements |
| Ctrl+Shift+E | Find Empty Elements (SmartCheck) |
| Ctrl+Alt+M | Add/Edit Note on the current element |
| Ctrl+Alt+I | Toggle Outline (Index Cards) view |
| Ctrl+Alt+J | Toggle Notes Board (all notes) view |
| Ctrl+A | Select entire document |
| Ctrl+Alt+C | Select all text in the current field (a body element or title page paragraph) |
| Ctrl+B / I / U | Bold / Italic / Underline |
| Ctrl+Shift+X | |
| Ctrl+Shift+D | Toggle Dual Dialogue (simultaneous speech) for the current exchange |
| Ctrl+Shift+O | Omit/restore the current scene |
| Ctrl+Shift+L | Lock/unlock page breaks |
| Ctrl+Enter | On the title page: split the current paragraph at the cursor, so each half can have its own alignment |
| ( | Converts Dialogue elements to Parentheticals (when typed as the first character) |
| ↑ / ↓ | Autocomplete suggestion navigate, Enter/Tab to accept |
| © | Copyright symbol |
| ® | Registered trademark symbol |
| ™ | Trademark symbol |
| … | Ellipsis (three dots) |
| ‽ | Interrobang (exclamation point followed by a question mark) |
| — | Em dash (type -- with Smart Characters enabled to replace automatically) |
| – | En dash |
| “ ” | Curly double quotes (type " with Smart Characters enabled to replace automatically) |
| ‘ ’ | Curly single quotes (type ' with Smart Characters enabled to replace automatically) |
Version 2.3.15
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Scriptographer is a browser-based screenwriting application developed by Barclay-Lethbridge for professionals, novices, and everyone in between.