Edit a Final Draft script with locked pages
What eDraft does with Final Draft’s locked pages, and what to check.
In Final Draft, a production can lock a script’s pages, so that later changes don’t move the text on any locked page. As the script is edited, Final Draft moves each lock along with the text.
eDraft does the same. When you add or remove text, eDraft moves each locked page along with the text, so in Final Draft every locked page still starts where it did. Final Draft also marks the places where revised text was deleted, and eDraft moves those marks with the text in the same way.
What you see in eDraft
- Each locked page starts where it does in Final Draft, and has the same number. On the Mac, the number is at the top right of the page, where it prints.
- A pin beside the number marks a page that Final Draft locked.
- If you add text to a locked page and it no longer fits, the extra text goes on a new page with a letter, such as 12A. If you delete all the text of a locked page, its number joins the page before, such as 9-10.
- The Navigator, the PDF, and the printed script use the same numbers.
What eDraft doesn’t do
- eDraft can’t lock or unlock pages. Do this in Final Draft.
- Inside a page, eDraft decides where lines break by its own rules, so it sometimes needs a page with a letter where Final Draft doesn’t. On the Mac, a small mark beside that page’s number says so. Click it to see why.
Before you send the script
- To see the pages as the production numbers them, open the script in Final Draft.
- To keep an untouched copy, duplicate the file in the Finder before you edit it.
Opening the script, reading it, and saving it without changes leave the locks exactly as they were.