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Moving scripts between Final Draft, Fountain, PDF, and Inkwell Plot without losing structure — honest limits included.
FDX is Final Draft's XML format — the lingua franca many production offices expect. Inkwell imports and exports FDX so you can write in Fountain-native Plot and hand off to coordinators who live in Final Draft.
Open Plot → Import / Export → Final Draft (.fdx). Inkwell parses scene headings, cues, and dialogue into structured Fountain data. Review import warnings before continuing if metadata cannot map one-to-one.
Use the same menu for PDF (reading copies) and FDX (systems). PDF uses industry margins; FDX preserves structure for round-trip. Export after save points so you know which version left the building.
Inkwell ships WGA revision colour sequencing and locked-page workflows on the Pro roadmap. Compare pages mark production features honestly as partial until they ship — see the production board fixture on Plot.
No — Fountain is the in-editor source format; FDX is an export/import handoff. You are not trapped in plain text for production.
Standard Fountain and FDX elements map into Plot's sixteen element types. Edge cases surface as import warnings rather than silent drops.
FDX
The native XML file format of Final Draft, the long-standing industry-standar...
Fountain
An open, plain-text markup language for screenplays. Because it is just text ...
Locked script
A script whose pages and scene numbers are frozen so that, once production be...
Revision colours
The standard sequence of paper colours (white, blue, pink, yellow, and so on)...
