Highland (.highland) → Plain text (.txt)
Pro Rescuing a script out of Highland (.highland) is the Pro part — from there it converts to Plain text (.txt) 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) → Plain text (.txt)
Opens the homepage converter with Plain text 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
- no emphasis, notes, sections, synopses or dual dialogue
- formatting is convention (uppercase cues, indentation) rather than markup
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 Plain text. Plain text background: Plain-text screenplays predate every screenwriting app — typed layouts on fixed-width printers are the format’s ancestors. There was never a version 1.0: it is a convention, not a specification.