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Parsers for text-based PDF, Final Draft, Fountain and Fade In bring different formats into a shared screenplay model.
SetKitCore · The shared screenplay engine
A script is a structure.
We start there.
Behind Sidesy, Abby and Propp is one foundation for understanding a screenplay. Different tools can concentrate on their own job because they share the work of reading scenes, characters, dialogue and pages.
(the part you don’t have to think about)
A. From file to working tool
How SetKitCore connects screenplay files to the apps
01 · The source
Bring the script.
PDF · Final Draft
Fountain · Fade In02 · The foundation
SetKitCore
Scenes. Characters.
Dialogue. Pages.03 · The job
Use the tool.
Formats are supported by the engine; each app exposes the formats its workflow needs. Image-only scanned PDFs need OCR first.
B. What the engine handles
One foundation.
Less work repeated.
Recognise the script
Identify scene headings, character cues, action and dialogue. Keep the structure the apps need to work with a screenplay rather than a block of text.
Keep the page reference
Preserve source page information from PDF and calculate pagination for structured screenplay formats using the same layout engine that renders the pages.
Put it back on paper
Render screenplay PDFs with screenplay typography, margins and page layout. Shared rendering keeps page calculations and exported pages in step.
Find the revision
Compare screenplay versions and identify added, changed and removed material. The app decides how to show those changes in its own workflow.
Prepare the handover
Shared splitting, scene-to-page mapping and naming tools support the production documents an app needs to deliver.
C. Where it is used
Shared understanding.
Specific purposes.
SetKitCore is the screenplay foundation for these three apps. Mapp and Workk do their own work without depending on it.
Prepare the pages
Sidesy
Use the script’s scenes, characters and page boundaries to prepare sides and compare revisions.
Read with context
Abby
Build the scene index and adaptable reader on the screenplay model, with useful page references and revision information.
Plan the screen action
Propp
Read scenes and characters from an imported script. Propp’s own detection then proposes the phone screens and content for review.
A foundation inside the apps
The engine runs
where the app runs.
SetKitCore processes screenplay files on the device. It is not a shared cloud library or a service that collects your scripts. Storage and synchronisation belong to each app: Sidesy works locally; Abby and Propp can use iCloud for their libraries or projects.
D. A direct line
We answer
our own email.
A question about SetKitCore? Tell us what you need it to do in your working day.
support@parentheticalapps.com(a person at the other end)