Fountain+ 
- Reads every Fountain primitive — scene headings, characters, dialogue, parentheticals, transitions, dual dialogue, centered text, lyrics, and title page metadata
- Renders industry-standard 12pt Courier with Hollywood spec margins — the format producers, agents, and competitions actually accept
- Your .fountain script never leaves your browser — conversion runs client-side. The only thing the page fetches is the Courier Prime typeface so the PDF embeds it for consistent rendering.
- Honours italic, bold, and underline emphasis; excludes notes and boneyards as authoring scaffolding
What to expect
Fountain is a near-perfect source: it encodes exactly the screenplay primitives the PDF renderer needs. Scene headings, character cues, dialogue, parentheticals, transitions, dual dialogue, centered text, lyrics, and notes all render with standard 12pt Courier and Hollywood spec margins. Title page metadata flows onto the cover. Emphasis (italic, bold, underline) is honoured. Fountain notes ([[ ... ]]) and boneyards (/ ... /) are excluded from the output by default since they're authoring scaffolding, not script content.
How it works
Your file never leaves your browser — conversion runs entirely client-side. The .fountain source is parsed into a Screenplay object by the native Fountain parser, then laid out and rendered to PDF with industry-standard formatting.
What Fountain looks like
Title: SUPERMAN Author: James Gunn Credit: Written by EXT. ANTARCTICA - DAY A still, frozen landscape. A low sun fights the clouds over the icy white mountains; snow sweeps softly over the tundra. **3 MINUTES AGO, Superman lost a battle for the first time.** A speck plummets haphazardly through the sky. It lands in the snow with a burst. SUPERMAN Oof. No. SUPERMAN (CONT'D) Krypto... home.
Opening of Superman by James Gunn — title page, scene heading, action, bold text, character cues, and dialogue. Superman and all related characters are © DC Comics / Warner Bros.; this excerpt is shown for educational purposes to illustrate Fountain syntax.
What this converter renders to, and why
The Hollywood convention is one page of properly-formatted screenplay equals roughly one minute of screen time.
That convention only works because the formatting is fixed: 12pt Courier (or Courier-equivalent monospace), 1-inch top and bottom margins, 1.5-inch left margin to accommodate three-hole punching, 1-inch right margin, dialogue indented 2.5 inches from the left and capped at 3.5 inches wide, character cues at 3.7 inches.
Change any of those and the page count stops predicting runtime, which is why every reader, agent, producer, and competition expects exactly the same specification.
Once the PDF is what producers see, you'll still want to keep editing — use Convert Fountain to FDX to hand the same source to a Final Draft collaborator.