Exporting and backups

Download a PDF

Resolve compilation errors, inspect the preview, then choose File → Export PDF. The Export dropdown also offers Download PDF.

Check the downloaded file before sending it, particularly after changing fonts, page size, or bibliography settings.

Download an SVG

Choose File → Export SVG for vector artwork from the preview. Use PDF when you need a conventional document to read, print, or submit.

Keep an editable copy

The File menu separates document downloads from publishing and package management.

Choose File → Download project…, then choose a ZIP format:

• Build bundle includes the current project files, referenced local packages and their dependencies, a Makefile, and build instructions. Project package snapshots take precedence over matching library versions. Missing referenced packages stop the download with an error.
• Source files only keeps the original project-file layout for importing into Tylor. Account packages and fonts are separate.

Extract a build bundle, install Typst 0.15.1, and run make in the extracted folder to create document.pdf. The included README also gives a direct command if you do not use Make. Source files are in document/; imports remain unchanged, and local packages are in packages/local/.

The bundle includes font files already stored in the project or its packages. Add any other required fonts to fonts/, respecting their licenses. Account font libraries and Tylor’s bundled fonts are not included automatically. Universe packages may need internet access on first build; computed package names and external diagram services may need manual setup. Check the resulting PDF.

To return to Tylor, import the complete build ZIP. The review lets you add missing package versions to My library while preserving the bundle’s versions with the imported document.

Both formats capture the editor’s current files when you select Download ZIP. Package versions are fetched separately from their published state; in server mode this requires a connection. Neither format contains sharing, comments, tracked-change records, or History. For a frozen PDF and restorable Tylor archive, use submission snapshots and folder backups.

Preserve a fixed submission or approved report

For a conference paper, approved minutes, or an class revision sheet, open PDF → Submission snapshots… and freeze a named version. Its PDF stays tied to the captured source even when you continue editing. See submission snapshots and folder backups for the full workflow.

Share a public PDF link

Account and server required

Public PDF links are available to users with the required sharing permissions.

Open the Export dropdown and choose Publish public PDF link. Anyone with that link can access the published PDF; it is different from inviting a collaborator to the source project.

The link follows saved project updates. For a fixed submission, download a PDF or use a submission snapshot instead. Unpublish disables future access through the link, but cannot recall files others have already downloaded.

Pending suggestions appear in the proposed document result. Review them before sharing a final PDF.

Export private speaker notes separately

Open PDF → My speaker notes… or View → Private speaker notes…, then Notes options. Download Markdown exports saved text; Printable notes downloads a notes-only HTML handout that you can print or save as PDF. Recovery JSON also preserves the local draft and discarded conflict copies. These exports include your drafts and older captured revisions, explicitly labelled for review. They do not embed slide images. See Private notes.

Regular PDF/SVG, public links, source/build ZIPs, Git, personal copies and submission/folder archives never include private speaker notes. Downloading notes is an explicit private export; check the file before sharing it. The CLI can export only notes already saved on the server.

Download a PDF with your speaker notes

In a signed-in server project, choose PDF → Download PDF + speaker notes, or File → Export PDF + speaker notes (inside Document menu on phones). Tylor waits for queued edits and notes to sync, compiles the saved document, then appends only your saved notes. Drafts and captured revisions are labelled: they may not match the current document. Cleared notes are omitted. An empty notes collection produces a message instead of a misleading plain PDF. Review this private file before sharing it. Local projects can use My speaker notes… to export a separate printable handout. The appendix limit is one million characters.

To keep the drawings made during a presentation, use Export session in the presenter console. That PDF uses the captured pages and final drawings, with no private notes.