JumpCut

Status: active

JumpCut is an open-source tool for converting screenplays from the Fountain markup format to Final Draft and PDF.

It’s built by a working screenwriter so it goes the extra mile to honor screenwriting conventions and produce attractive PDFs.

What It Does

JumpCut can read Fountain and Final Draft (FDX) documents, then export them as:

• Final Draft (FDX)
• PDF
• HTML
• Fountain
• Plain text
• JSON

PDFs include bookmarks generated from scene headings, and the renderer uses Courier Prime by default. The tool also supports custom fonts.

Built for Screenplay Formatting

Screenplay pagination is surprisingly particular. A page that looks right in a general-purpose document editor can behave differently in Final Draft, especially around dialogue, parentheticals, and page continuations.

JumpCut was created by a working screenwriter to produce output that follows the conventions of Hollywood screenplays. Its default “industry” profile aims to match the pagination and continuation behavior used by major screenwriting tools, while an optional “balanced” profile offers more opinionated page-break choices.

Open Source

JumpCut is written in Rust and can be used three ways: as a command-line tool, a Rust library, or a WebAssembly package for use in websites.

The project is open source under the MIT License. You can explore the code, contribute, or install it from the JumpCut GitHub repository.