hi,
i have a screenplay written in storyist. i am trying to export it to word but some of the formatting is being lost when it converts. i had thought it was only some capitalization and line spacing that had got messed up, and was grudgingly going through and manually fixing it, but then i noticed that from about halfway in, the margins for the dialogue begin to be too wide. i don't want to fix this manually and i shouldn't have to! i've tried a previous suggestion of exporting as an rtf then coverting to a doc but the same thing happens. i've tried on two macs, one running snow leopard and the other running tiger. would opening the exported file on a windows pc make a difference?
any ideas very welcome.
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formatting lost when exporting
Started by hb1981, Jun 01 2010 04:03 PM
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Posted 01 June 2010 - 04:13 PM
hb1981, on Jun 1 2010, 09:03 AM, said:
hi,
i have a screenplay written in storyist. i am trying to export it to word but some of the formatting is being lost when it converts. i had thought it was only some capitalization and line spacing that had got messed up, and was grudgingly going through and manually fixing it, but then i noticed that from about halfway in, the margins for the dialogue begin to be too wide. i don't want to fix this manually and i shouldn't have to! i've tried a previous suggestion of exporting as an rtf then coverting to a doc but the same thing happens. i've tried on two macs, one running snow leopard and the other running tiger. would opening the exported file on a windows pc make a difference?
any ideas very welcome.
i have a screenplay written in storyist. i am trying to export it to word but some of the formatting is being lost when it converts. i had thought it was only some capitalization and line spacing that had got messed up, and was grudgingly going through and manually fixing it, but then i noticed that from about halfway in, the margins for the dialogue begin to be too wide. i don't want to fix this manually and i shouldn't have to! i've tried a previous suggestion of exporting as an rtf then coverting to a doc but the same thing happens. i've tried on two macs, one running snow leopard and the other running tiger. would opening the exported file on a windows pc make a difference?
any ideas very welcome.
Hi hb1981,
I'm surprised that exporting as RTF is giving you trouble. What version of Word are you using to read the exported RTF?
If you're comfortable sending me the Storyist file, I'd be happy to take a look at it for you and send you back the exported file. Or, if you use iChat, we could do a quick screen sharing session and you could show me what you're seeing.
-Steve
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Posted 01 June 2010 - 05:18 PM
thanks for the speedy reply! it's word mac 2008 that i'm using. i would be happy to email you the file if you want to give me your email address.
thanks,
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Posted 25 December 2011 - 06:57 PM
I'm having the same export problem with a Mac. Has this problem been resolved?
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Posted 10 May 2012 - 01:42 PM
Having a problem with exporting to rtf., docx. or doc. and keeping any kind of formatting at all. HELP!!!
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Posted 10 May 2012 - 03:28 PM
Hi, Impyjones--
I export to RTF all the time and have no trouble retaining formatting. Even Pages, which doesn't recognize RTF styles, normally retains the original formatting (italics, bold, etc.) while converting all the styles to Normal or the equivalent.
Could you be more explicit about what exactly you are doing?
Best,
Marguerite
I export to RTF all the time and have no trouble retaining formatting. Even Pages, which doesn't recognize RTF styles, normally retains the original formatting (italics, bold, etc.) while converting all the styles to Normal or the equivalent.
Could you be more explicit about what exactly you are doing?
Best,
Marguerite
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