Exporting and Presenting Pages

Exporting

Open Export as usual (see Exporting a Tab). Illustrate mode offers the formats that suit pages: PDF, PNG, SVG and GIF, 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 - Infographic.png, ...).

A line under the choice says what the download will be ("3 pages, one PDF.", "A .zip of 3 PNG files, one per page.").

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, except on a logo page, whose PNG and SVG leave it transparent. 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.

Animated GIF

GIF makes one animated image that plays anywhere a picture does: a chat message, an email, a README or a social post. Everything that moves on a page moves in the GIF, exactly as it does on the canvas: an animated background mid-motion, and every element animation. A page's animations start from the beginning each time it comes round, as when a slide opens while presenting.

• Pages: All pages plays them in order and loops back to the first; One page loops that page alone.
• Each page holds: how long every page shows, from 1 to 20 seconds. It starts at the deck's Auto-Advance time when that is on, otherwise 3 seconds.
• Size: Small, Medium or Large, the page's longer side at 480, 960 or 1440 pixels.
• Between pages, the GIF uses the transition and speed set in the Slide Deck settings, so it moves from page to page as your presentation does, including from the last page back to the first.

The panel shows a still preview of the page and an estimate of the file size, with a note when it is large for chat and email. Download GIF makes the file, showing its progress; Cancel stops it and nothing downloads. A GIF can run up to 3 minutes in all; past that, shorten the hold or export one page. A page where nothing moves costs a single frame, so a GIF of mostly still pages stays small.

GIFs are made to move, so your Reduce Motion setting never stills one. A logo page's see-through paper comes out white, and a video shows its poster, as in a PNG.

Turning Pages Into Slides

Pages are often presented, so their 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. (Adding slides is for Editors: a Viewer or Participant can't.) 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.