Exporting a Tab

Export downloads the active tab in the format you need, whether that is an image for a doc, a PDF to print, or a file to move the tab into another diagram.

Export formats

From the tab ellipsis menu, expand the Content section and choose Export, then pick a format:

• JSON — a portable .livediagram-tab.json snapshot that imports back with full fidelity.
• Mermaid — the tab as Mermaid flowchart text, which keeps every connection and its style (unlike Markdown); frames export as subgraph blocks.
• Markdown — the tab's structure as a Markdown outline (a readable summary; it does not preserve every connection).
• Excalidraw — a .excalidraw scene you can open at excalidraw.com. Boxes, text, arrows (with their connections), and drawings carry over; element kinds Excalidraw doesn't have (charts, tables, device frames, …) simplify to labelled boxes.
• PNG — a raster image, good for pasting into docs and chat.
• SVG — a crisp vector image that scales to any size.
• PDF — a print-ready page of the tab.

The four text formats (JSON, Mermaid, Markdown, Excalidraw) each open an editor pre-filled with the tab as that format: tweak the text and copy it, or download the file. Your edits in that box never change the tab. The three image formats (PNG, SVG, PDF) open an options screen (see below) with a Download button.

What the image exports capture

The PNG, SVG, and PDF exports show the tab as it looks. After you pick one, an options screen offers two switches: Isometric view, which tilts the export into the isometric projection, and Background pattern, which paints the canvas grid / dots behind the diagram. When the tab has layers hidden in the Layers panel, a third switch, Hidden layers, appears so you can choose whether those layers are included in the export. Set them and press Download, and what you get matches what you see. The JSON, Mermaid, Markdown, and Excalidraw exports capture the underlying content rather than the picture.