Intro to Final Draft files in eDraft

What eDraft shows, what it keeps, and how it saves a .fdx file.

When you open a Final Draft file (.fdx) in eDraft, you work in the file itself. Your changes are saved back to it as a Final Draft file.

What you can work with

• The script’s text and elements, its scene numbers, and its title page.
• Notes. Notes you add are saved as Final Draft notes with your name. Notes written in Final Draft can be read but not changed.
• Omitted scenes. You can omit and restore scenes, and the file keeps them as Final Draft omissions.

What eDraft keeps without showing

A Final Draft file can hold revisions, locked pages, and tags. eDraft keeps all of them in the file. It shows the revision marks and the locked pages Final Draft recorded, but not the tags. When it saves, it rewrites only the parts of the script you changed.

When you edit, eDraft moves locked pages along with the text, as Final Draft does. See Edit a Final Draft script with locked pages.

To give the script to someone who uses Final Draft, see Send a script to a Final Draft user.