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Fountain

aka Fountain format · Fountain screenplay format

A plain-text screenplay format — write in any text editor, convert to industry-formatted PDF/FDX. The open-standard alternative to Final Draft's proprietary FDX.

Fountain is what screenwriters reach for when they want to write in their text editor of choice rather than booting Final Draft. It's a plain-text markup convention — INT./EXT. headings, character names in caps, action in regular text — that any Fountain-compatible tool can render as industry-formatted screenplay. Highland, Slugline, and Fade In all speak Fountain natively. StoryboardCanvas Script imports and exports Fountain so a writer who lives in plain text never has to leave it to land in our suite.