This is big, but I can’t quite explain how.
I have been using Celtx to write my scripts. It is a really great program and makes the whole writing process much easier…..after small learning curve. The rigid format has forced me to tighten up my scripting style a lot. There is no doubt that I have benefited from it.
Celtx also provides a service through which they auto-publish your work to their Project Central web site. This is a really easy way to publish, but it is also very limiting. I don’t know tech stuff about coding and all of that, which is why it took me so long to figure this out. So, I can’t explain exactly why, but it is similar to the way that itunes turns all of your media files into itunes files. I could publish my scripts through Celtx Project Central, but it was almost impossible to do anything else with them.
Now, with a series of simple installs, I can turn my scripts straight into PDF files which I can then do whatever I want with. Print, email, sell…whatever. Plus, all of the scripts are now “in house”. Meaning that when you go to read a script, you are no longer being sent to another web site. This also solves the formatting problem that I was having with Internet Explorer.
The Celtx program is a very powerful way to create scripts….now I feel like that power has been liberated.
I've never used Project Central myself, so the peek you provided was more than interesting. The catalog and index card functions look intriguing. It could be a great tool. Of course, you don't need all that to present the scripts. And PDF has two major advantages for me as a reader: I can download and print the scripts.
What do you mean by “series of simple installs”? Doesn't Celtx offer PDF export anyway?
On the one hand, I do like having all the “guts” out there on display…. But on the other hand, I prefer the more streamlined appearance of the PDF scripts.
Celtx does offer a PDF export, but for the comics format it is just awful. For some reason it changes into a thing that looks more like an Excel spreadsheet than a script. It could be functionally used, as all of the information is actually there, but it is far uglier than I would ever show off in public.