The pages, before you commit
Courier 12pt on US Letter with the 1.5-inch binding margin, scene numbers in the margins, and page breaks from Inkwell's own pagination calculator rather than a words-per-page estimate.
Open a Final Draft .fdx or Fountain draft in your browser and take it out as a PDF, Fountain, or plain text. Real screenplay page layout, a per-file fidelity report, and no upload.
Useful output, not a score
Courier 12pt on US Letter with the 1.5-inch binding margin, scene numbers in the margins, and page breaks from Inkwell's own pagination calculator rather than a words-per-page estimate.
Print or save a PDF through your own browser, or download Fountain or plain text. The PDF never leaves your machine because your machine makes it.
A per-element count of what comes across unchanged, what arrives as action, and what stays in Final Draft. Counted from your draft, not from a general table.
Choose a .fdx or Fountain file, or paste the text. Reading and parsing happen in this tab; no draft is uploaded.
Check the page count and the layout, then read which elements carry across and which flatten to action.
Print to PDF for a reader, or take Fountain to keep writing anywhere — in Inkwell or any other tool.
No. Parsing, layout, downloads, and the printed PDF all run in this browser tab. There is no server round trip, no account, and no copy kept after you close the tab — which is the difference between this and a general file-conversion site.
Yes. Choose the file and the screenplay is laid out as pages you can read, print, or save in another format. You do not need a Final Draft licence, and the original file is not modified.
Yes — Courier 12pt on US Letter, a 1.5-inch left margin for the binding, 1-inch elsewhere, dialogue and character cues on the industry columns, dual dialogue in two columns, scene numbers in the margins, and page numbers top right. Page breaks come from Inkwell's own formatting-aware pagination calculator, not a words-per-page estimate.
Because that is what keeps the draft off a server. Your browser renders the pages you can already see. In the dialog, choose Save as PDF, set paper to Letter, and turn off headers and footers — the page carries its own margins and numbers.
Locked page boundaries and revision generations are Final Draft production state and stay there. Camera shots, cast lists, and Final Draft's General paragraphs keep every word but arrive as action, because there is no separate element for them. The tool counts each of these in your specific file rather than describing them in general.
No — this page reads .fdx files, it does not write them. Producing a Final Draft file is an export in Plot on the Writer plan and above, which is the tier a writer sending drafts to a production office is already on. Reading an .fdx is free here and in Plot, and always will be: that is the direction someone switching tools actually needs.
The inspector diagnoses one file — revision sets, locked pages, name variants, what looks unusual or malformed. This converts one: it lays the script out and hands you the format you asked for.
Open an FDX file privately in your browser to inventory revision sets, locked pages, scene numbers, and portability risks before you import or convert.
Open toolCheck a feature, pilot, or short against page-count practice, official contest windows, and a published feature corpus — then export a memo you can send with the draft.
Open toolBreak down a Fountain or Final Draft screenplay privately in your browser: scene sheets, eighths, cast, locations, day/night, and exportable CSVs.
Open toolWant to continue in Plot? Your screenplay stays in this browser tool and is not transferred automatically; paste or import it after you sign in.