Tiger Alert: 10.4.1 & Final Draft 7.1 Issue
Since a bunch of you have identified as Mac users, here’s a heads up.
Apple just released 10.4.1 today. It’s broken Final Draft 7.1 on my system. The app launches, but it misreads all files as gobbledegook.
Happily, I still have Final Draft 6 installed, and it’s opening my files fine. That should make the producers of a certain horror movie happy, as I’m currently doing a production polish and they’re set to shoot in two weeks.
Something tells me that “the computer ate my homework” wouldn’t quite cut it.
Anyway, consider yourself warned. If you have FD 7.1, I’d wait for a fix before upgrading to 10.4.1.
Lastly, if anyone has successfully upgraded to 10.4.1 and NOT had a problem with their FD 7.1, I’d love to hear about it.
Thanks for the heads-up. I’ve already given up on FD7 and gone back to FD6, due to problems with Scene Navigator. Won’t be rushing into 10.4.1 either now…
Hey Craig,
I installed 10.4.1 just before reading your post on both iBook and Powermac. After an appropriate panic, I went to check FD 7.1 on both machines and it’s working great.
Perhaps a reinstall of FD on yours (or perhaps trashing your FD prefs) might do the trick.
And thanks (once again) for your help with WGA!!! I’ll keep you posted!
Justin
I did the 10.4.1 update and FD 7.1 works just fine on my PowerBook. I opened up a bunch up scripts, including ones created in FD 7, 6, and 5 (hell, there might be a 4 in there…), just to make sure.
Everything’s A-Okay here.
Does anyone else here have a problem converting final draft 6 files to PDF? My dialogue (Cont’d) lines at the top of pages merge with text in the conversion, and the scene (Continued) lines are sometimes hugging text or way too high on the page. What’s the deal? Full disclosure: I have a Dell, not a Mac.
It happens to me, too, Gary. If it bothers you, you can create P.D.F.s with the professional version of Adobe Acrobat. The “cont’d”s look normal if you do it that way.
But it’s kind of a trade-off. Adobe Acrobat isn’t perfect, either: smart quotes, accents on capital letters, and em dashes only show up properly if you convert to P.D.F. using Final Draft. In fact, capital-letter accents and em dashes don’t even show up properly in Final Draft.
I do wish Final Draft were as versatile at characters as something like Microsoft Word. I wrote a scene in Esperanto once, for some reason, and Final Draft just couldn’t get the accents right. It really bugged me.
Well….shit.
Okay, I’m gonna have to fiddle with this thing later. Thanks for letting me know it’s just ME…ya bastids. :)
I reverted back to FD6 after using the buggy-ass FD7 for about a week. 10.4.1 has done nothing to my installation.
There’s always good ol’ Repair Permissions in Disk Utility. It’s a good idea anyway before and after an OS upgrade.
Hello,
I’ve been using Final Draft for years, but it’s been getting buggy - how hard is it to covert all of my FD documents to Movie Magic, and what is the simplest way to do just that?
Oh, and is there somewhere on the web where I can take Movie Magic for a test drive before buying?