Adobe Story (.astx) Obsolete
Adobe Story’s orphaned format — its shutdown (announced 2018, completed January 2019) stranded thousands of scripts in .astx files that little else opens. That’s exactly what we rescue.
Format facts
- Created
- 2010
- Created by
- Adobe Inc.
- Status
- Obsolete — no current software writes it
- Reference
- Wikipedia: Adobe Story ↗
Software that uses it
Native format of Adobe Story.
What it carries
- typed paragraphs with Final-Draft-style element vocabulary
- text runs with styling
What it can't represent
- Adobe Story’s production sidebars and reports are not carried
Where it came from
Adobe Story (2010–2019) was Adobe’s cloud screenwriting suite. Adobe announced its exit from scriptwriting in January 2018 and deleted all user data when the service closed on 22 January 2019 — the canonical cautionary tale for keeping scripts in open formats.