Final Draft 8 Crashes Again

[FinalDraft]

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Thanks!

[Grandmaster]

Originally Posted by FinalDraft

Please contact Final Draft through one of the options offered at:

http://support.finaldraft.com/

Thanks!

Yep, a 64 bit thing - I had a problem with pdf not saving on 7 so updated; now I'm here looking for the text fix link someone posted as 8 comes with a buggered font!

FinalDraft, how about you people BUG TEST your program before releasing it?

[belac]

Final draft has caused me so many heartaches. I had six and it drove me almost to insanity.

[ComicBent]

Grandmaster, I am assuming you are using Windows.

Are you sure you really have the *Courier Final Draft* font on your machine?

In Windows XP the font is in C:\Windows\Fonts. I do not know where it is in Vista or Windows 7. But look and make sure that you have it.

If you have the font installed, then Final Draft should be using it, unless you have set the program to use another font.

As for PDF ... Do the following:

Open the PDF.
FILE | Document Properties
Click *Fonts*

You will see a list of fonts used in the PDF.
You should see something like:
*Courier Final Draft (embedded subset)*

If you do not see *embedded subset*, then it means that the font did not get embedded (you want it to be embedded).

If it is not embedded, then anyone who looks at that PDF and does not have Courier Final Draft on his computer will NOT see Courier Final Draft. Instead, that person will see a substituted sans-serif font (something that resembles Arial).

[ComicBent]

Final draft has caused me so many heartaches. I had (version) six and it drove me almost to insanity.

These stories are really strange. I have used every version of Final Draft (as well as some other scriptwriting programs) back to version 4.*. Every version has worked well after the bugs were worked out. Version 6, in particular, seemed very smooth.

Version 7 was an awful release in the beginning. It was so bad that I did not install it onto my machine for a year or two, even though I had a copy of it. I waited for a stable update of the program. And 7 is very stable now.

Version 8 seems to use a lot of computer resources. If I use it, my laptop (plenty of memory and power) complains. The fan goes crazy as it works to cool the innards of the computer. I have heard the same complaint here on the board. Consequently, I do not use it except for final formatting. It does a better job than past versions at various text-handling tasks. That is why people often say that their scripts are shorter than they were before. Version 8 is smarter than earlier versions. It knows not to waste a line at the top of a page when a new Scene Heading starts there.

By the way, none of this is an endorsement of Final Draft. I also use Movie Magic Screenwriter.