Sophocles Screenwriting Software 2003

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• Price: Free to try (Watermark on image, export-disabled); $120.00 to buy
• Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
• Date added: July 09, 2003
• Total Downloads: 44,050
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• 5 stars

  4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

  Version: Sophocles Screenwriting Software 2003

  "The Best"

  by Bryan00009 on May 30, 2006

  Pros: Reasons this is better than Final Draft:

  1. One of the most impressive features -- automatically formats parentheticals, which Final Draft doesn't do (you don't need to tab between them and dialogue).

  2. If you have written a script in .rtf, .txt, or .html format, you can import it effortlessly into Sophocles and the program with format it perfectly (very cool).

  3. One click to create perfect Adobe, .txt, or .rtf documents of your script of small memory size.

  4. Great user interface -- avoids that clunky zoom feature in Final Draft. Edit in one window and Print Preview in another. More comfortable for those used to Word processing software like MS Word.

  5. Lower cost. About half of what FD costs and a better quality product.

  If you're looking for software that will create perfectly formatted screenwriting documents with little effort, this is easily your best choice.

  Cons: Quibbles:

  1. I wish it would allow you to insert notes in between the text, like on word processor, instead of just attaching them to scenes.

  2. It could use a much more sophisticated Find/Replace feature, like in MS Word, but no screenwriting software has that, that I know of.

  3. It runs perfectly in Windows XP. That previous reviewer didn't know what he was talking about. I have owned this program for several years and it has never crashed once.

  4. Another reviewer complained about the watermark on printed pages??? Well, duh. This is not free software, so print output is disabled on the trial version.

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Sophocles Screenwriting Software 2003

  "Allows you to worry about your story, not format."

  by write4fun on February 3, 2006

  Pros: A previous poster mentioned trouble using program with Windows XP. It works fine on my XP computer. Purchased three years ago. Ease of use would be my top compliment. This was one of the best buys I've made, regardless of the outcome of my still unfinished screenplay!

  Cons: Anyone hoping to print their product from the demo mode is out of luck. I understand the designer's reasoning... after all, if you could do everything in demo mode, why would anyone purchase the software?

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Sophocles Screenwriting Software 2003

  "An excellent and professional tool."

  by Kingz2010 on June 21, 2005

  Pros: Easy to use. User friendly interface. Excellent help menue. Very good hot key implementation. A professional tool in a light weight and easy to use software.

  Cons: The demo does not allow export of text and watermarks the printed pages. But this is understandable.

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• 3 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Sophocles Screenwriting Software 2003

  "90 day trial"

  by ncalima on March 1, 2005

  Cons: In addition to other limitations, listed on the download page, this program's trial ends after 90 days.

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• 5 stars

  Version: Sophocles Screenwriting Software 2003

  "helpful"

  by carter255 on July 18, 2008

  Pros: Like Sophocles Screenwriting Software ,there is another software which handles scripts more efficiently

  you can also format your script automatically.There is no need to understand or research on script formatting

  you dont eenneed to install it and it directly runs on the web browser

  Its a online screenwriting software available for free

  at scripped.com

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