Practical Scriptwriter

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| name = Practical Scriptwriter

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| developer = Practical Software Design.

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| latest release version = 2.73

| latest release date = Feb 2017

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| operating system = Windows

| size = 4MB

| language = English (American English)

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| genre =Screenwriting software

| license =Proprietary

| website = http://www.practicalscriptwriter.co.uk

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Practical Scriptwriter is screenwriting software supporting various US and UK script formats (Stage, Screen, Television and Radio) as required by the BBC{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/send-a-script/formatting-your-script |title=BBC - Writersroom - Formatting your script |accessdate=2012-12-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902040420/http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/send-a-script/formatting-your-script |archivedate=2012-09-02 }} BBC Script Formats and US Screenwriting industry standards.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080822084909/http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/format.html Guide to screenplay format] from the website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The software runs on the Windows platform only.

The application is notable due to the separation of formatting information from the script itself. This separation is the opposite of a traditional WYSIWYG Word Processor, the data file format does not contain font and layout metadata, this is only applied during the formatting process. The software uses a proprietary file format identified by the .FSC file extension.

Originally released in 2005, the software was rewritten using Windows Presentation Foundation in 2012.