John August is a font nerd ("nerd" is not a pejorative). He's posted a new "Courier Prime" font for FD - http://johnaugust.com/2013/introducing-courier-prime. He says it was specifically designed to be "substituted letter-for-letter with Courier Final Draft". And, for both Windows and Mac.
But... On my Win7 machine with FD8, it turned my 118-page script into a 158-page script. Even if I change the line spacing to "Very tight", it's still waaay off. IOW, it's worse than if you try to use MM Courier with FD.
IIRC, John August is a Mac guy, so... And, it's free, so...
In any event - FYI, if you use FD on a Windows machine, this font might not work for you. It doesn't for me.
Addendum:
If you click over to the font dl page, there's an FAQ. There it essentially is explained that this font is not compatible with Windows, after all:
I find it puzzling that, on the one hand, it says, "Final Draft for Windows uses a special version of their house font with a different line height", then OTOH says, "It’s a Final Draft problem, not a font problem, so it’s out of our control."
Bottom line: While this font will "work" in FD on Windows in the sense that it will appear on your screen... Beyond that, as a practical matter, it doesn't actually work in FD on Windows.
But... On my Win7 machine with FD8, it turned my 118-page script into a 158-page script. Even if I change the line spacing to "Very tight", it's still waaay off. IOW, it's worse than if you try to use MM Courier with FD.
IIRC, John August is a Mac guy, so... And, it's free, so...
In any event - FYI, if you use FD on a Windows machine, this font might not work for you. It doesn't for me.
Addendum:
If you click over to the font dl page, there's an FAQ. There it essentially is explained that this font is not compatible with Windows, after all:
I’m using Final Draft for Windows. Any special warnings?
(sigh) Yes, unfortunately.
Final Draft for Windows uses a special version of their house font with a different line height. So while you can absolutely use Courier Prime, your page breaks might change if you swap back and forth between Courier Final Draft and Courier Prime. Likewise, if your writing partner is using Courier Prime on Final Draft for the Mac, and you open that file on Windows, page breaks might be off.
It’s a Final Draft problem, not a font problem, so it’s out of our control.
Note that PDFs work great, so the only hiccups come when passing around an FDX file.
(sigh) Yes, unfortunately.
Final Draft for Windows uses a special version of their house font with a different line height. So while you can absolutely use Courier Prime, your page breaks might change if you swap back and forth between Courier Final Draft and Courier Prime. Likewise, if your writing partner is using Courier Prime on Final Draft for the Mac, and you open that file on Windows, page breaks might be off.
It’s a Final Draft problem, not a font problem, so it’s out of our control.
Note that PDFs work great, so the only hiccups come when passing around an FDX file.
I find it puzzling that, on the one hand, it says, "Final Draft for Windows uses a special version of their house font with a different line height", then OTOH says, "It’s a Final Draft problem, not a font problem, so it’s out of our control."
Bottom line: While this font will "work" in FD on Windows in the sense that it will appear on your screen... Beyond that, as a practical matter, it doesn't actually work in FD on Windows.
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