Open FDX files in your browser
The screenplay file of film and TV, the one studios, agents and contests ask for. Read a script right here as it prints, without Final Draft. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your screenplay opens on Letter pages in Courier 12, set as it prints.
- Scene headings, action, dialogue and transitions in place
- Contents • Jump to a scene
- Search • Every match counted
- Export • Save as PDF, PNG, JPEG or Markdown
About FDX
Final Draft is the screenwriting app of Hollywood, and since Final Draft 8 in 2009 it saves scripts as .fdx. Fade In, WriterDuet, Highland and Arc Studio open and save FDX too, so it is how scripts move between them.
An FDX is XML: each paragraph with its kind, scene heading, action, character, parenthetical, dialogue or transition, its text with bold, italics and underline, the scene numbers, the page's layout and the title page.
Filepeek sets the script on Letter pages in Courier 12 as Final Draft does: scene headings and action across the page, characters and dialogue indented, transitions to the right, dual dialogue side by side, scene numbers in the margin and page numbers at the top. Contents jumps to each scene, and Search finds any line.
Final Draft screenplay
.fdx
Format
- MIME type
- application/xml
- Made by
- Final Draft
- Released
- 2009
Inside the file
- Holds
- A screenplay's paragraphs
- Built on
- XML
- Pages
- Letter, in Courier 12
- Made by
- Final Draft 8 and later
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens FDX scripts in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers show them as XML.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open FDX
- WindowsFinal Draft and Fade In
- MacFinal Draft, Fade In and Highland
- iPhone and iPadFinal Draft Mobile and Fade In Mobile
- AndroidFade In Mobile
Questions
How do I read an FDX without Final Draft?
Drop it on this page. The script shows on pages as it prints, with its scenes in Contents.
Can I save a script as PDF?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as PDF to print its pages, or save its text as Markdown.
Why won't my older Final Draft script open?
Final Draft 7 and earlier saved .fdr files, which aren't XML. Final Draft opens them and saves them again as FDX.