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blue-eyedbaby

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hi everyone. I'm new here and I've got a question. Now, I finished my first screenplay and completed all the editing. I'm entering it into the Zoetrope competition. I wrote the SP in Movie Magic 2000, but Zoetrope only accepts: Adobe Acrobat PDF, Microsoft Word, and Rich Text Format files.
I only have Microsoft word because I can't afford Adobe.
MY PROBLEM:
My screenplay is 120 pages long. I copied and pasted it into Microsoft Word and adjusted the margins, but I now have 146 pages!!!
Have any of you ever encountered this problem? And what did you do to remedy it?

Thanks for the help.
 

icerose

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In movie magic open your file, do file save as, pick PDF as the file type it will automatically save it as a PDF format. It's a feature.
 

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i have MM 200..strangely PDF is not available as a file type. But I do see the Rich Text Format. I'll try saving it with that. Thanks!!
 

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STOP! In MM2000, select File > Print and change "Print Normally to Printer" to "Create PDF"

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i have MM 200..strangely PDF is not available as a file type. But I do see the Rich Text Format. I'll try saving it with that. Thanks!!

Oh, haha sorry, Final Draft is the one that keeps it easy, I forgot MM is more like Word where you have to do the print, I'm glad to see the others have replied.