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Using View Modes

EpicDraft has two views of your script — the Document Editor and the Print Editor — switchable from the View menu or the toolbar's view buttons. Same script, two ways of looking at it.

Document Editor

The Document Editor renders every element with its real formatting but doesn't paginate: your script is one continuous flow, with no page boundaries interrupting a scene. It's the best view for drafting — nothing jumps between pages while you write.

The Print Editor paginates. Page breaks, page numbers, and (MORE) / (CONT'D) indicators appear exactly as they will when you print or export — what you see is the page. The status bar switches from an estimated runtime to your position as Page N of M.

Tall column blocks — like a documentary's A/V columns — split across pages and reprint their headers on the continuation, so a page never starts with an unlabeled column.

Scroll memory

EpicDraft remembers where you left off in each document, on each device, and returns you there when you reopen it. Your scroll position is view state — it's never shared with collaborators, so two people can read different parts of the same script without tugging each other around.

Zoom

Zoom with ⌘= / Ctrl+= and ⌘- / Ctrl+-, and return to actual size with ⌘0 / Ctrl+0. The current zoom level shows in the status bar.

The rest of the View menu

The View menu also holds the chrome toggles: Toggle Tool Bar, Toggle Status Bar (screenplay editor only), and Toggle Floating Tool Bar (⌘L / Ctrl+L). For hiding everything at once, see Zen Mode.