In Illustrate mode, export and present work in pages, not the content of the whole tab.
Exporting
Open Export as usual (see Exporting a Tab). Illustrate mode offers the formats that suit pages: PDF, PNG and SVG, plus JSON to keep a copy of the tab. The diagram-tool formats (Mermaid, Markdown, Excalidraw) are not offered, since a page is not a diagram.
Pick a format and choose All pages or One page above the preview:
- PDF starts on All pages: one PDF with every page in order, each at its own size and orientation. Paper sizes come out at print size: an A4 page is a true A4 page. With One page you get a one-page PDF of the page you pick.
- PNG and SVG start on One page, the first by default, and you get that page's image. With All pages you get a .zip holding one image per page, numbered in page order (
01 Page 1 - A4 - Portrait.png, ...).
The file is named after the document and tab, plus the page's label when you export one page. With All pages, the page list picks which page the preview shows.
Each page exports exactly its sheet: its size, its background and pattern, and what is on it, cut off at its edges just as the canvas shows it. The space around the pages is never included. The plain paper exports white, and the preview shows the page you picked.
The Isometric view and Background pattern switches are not offered for pages: a page is its own background, and it is never tilted.
Importing
In Illustrate mode, Import takes JSON only: a livediagram tab, pages and all. Mermaid, Markdown, Excalidraw and draw.io files are diagrams; switch to Diagram mode to import those.
Turning Pages Into Slides
Pages are often presented, so its deck is one press away: in the bottom-right corner, where the Layers button sits in the other modes, the Slides button opens the Slide Deck panel just above it.
In Illustrate mode the panel adds slides a page at a time: pick a page from the list and press Add as slide. A page slide is the page itself:
- It shows whatever is on the page now, so it follows your edits, a new layout, a resize or a reorder without you touching the deck.
- It is framed to exactly the page.
- Its row reads the tab and the page ("Tab 1 · Page 2 · A4 · Portrait · Article"), and its thumbnail is the page on its background.
- Delete the page and the slide stays, empty, so you can see it and fix it.
Page slides sit in the same deck as any other slides, so a deck can mix infographic pages with slides built from other tabs. Name them, add notes, hide or reorder them as in Building a Deck.
Presenting
Press Present and each page fills the screen on its own: no labels, cogs or buttons around it, and none of its neighbouring pages beside it. Everything else about presenting is as for any deck; see Presenting.
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