MovieScripter Docs Fountain to PDF

Reads Fountain mark-down from Google Docs and formats it as a PDF screenplay.

A free movie screenwriting extension that reads a screenplay written in Fountain mark-down from Google Docs and converts it to a formatted screenplay PDF that can be saved to disk. Courier Prime is the default PDF font but this can be changed to any left-to-right language font including non-Latin alphabets such as Devanagari, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Thai etc. The extension does not need Google account access and only requires that the Fountain text is open in Google Docs. The extension is self-contained and does not use a backend server. All processing is performed locally in the browser, assuring complete privacy for screenplay data. Mousing over the interface options will present tooltips which explain what the options do. Side-by-side dual dialogue formatting is supported. Notes on loading a custom font: Courier Prime is the default PDF font and this will be embedded into generated PDFs. However, this cannot render non-Latin alphabets like Devanagari or Chinese in a PDF reader so a custom font must be loaded for this by clicking the 'Custom font' button. This opens the browser's chooser and a folder must be selected (not files). The folder selected must contain from one to four .ttf font files (.otf is not supported). For an alphabet like English, there will typically be four .ttf files in the folder; one for regular, one for bold, one for italic and one for bold-italic. For a non-Latin alphabet, one or two files are typically enough; one for regular and one for bold text. The free Google Fonts Noto Sans family is a good choice for non-Latin alphabets. For example, the font files used for Devanagari could be 'NotoSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf' and 'NotoSansDevanagari-Bold.ttf'. Also note that font setup needs to be done only once since all settings are remembered between extension and browser sessions.