Highland (.highland) → Final Draft (.fdx)
Pro Rescuing a script out of Highland (.highland) is the Pro part — from there it converts to Final Draft FDX (.fdx) and every other format on the site. The button below opens the converter with the output format already selected, and the server checks your plan when the file is dropped in.
Run this conversion
Convert Highland (.highland) → Final Draft (.fdx)
Opens the homepage converter with Final Draft FDX already selected as the output — drop your file, press Convert Script.
What survives this conversion
- everything Fountain carries — Highland’s file format is a Fountain document inside an open package
What can be lost
- the XML dialect is Final Draft’s own; third-party files are compatible, not endorsed
- some production metadata (e.g., tagging) has no representation in text formats
Every conversion includes an honest report listing anything that could not translate — you see it before downloading.
How this pair works
Your Highland file is parsed into a canonical screenplay model (by verified content, not just the file extension), then rendered as Final Draft FDX. Final Draft FDX background: Introduced as the default save format with Final Draft 8 in 2009, FDX replaced the binary .fdr format so scripts could move between Final Draft and other tools as structured XML. Final Draft 1–7 cannot open it at all.