Export formats
The Export menu (the download icon in the top toolbar) gets your work out of Oleafly in whatever shape the destination demands. It’s context-aware: the menu offers what makes sense for the document you’re looking at.
Always available
Section titled “Always available”- Export source (.zip): the complete project source, cleanly archived (no build caches, no
.git). This is the “send it to a co-author” and “upload to the journal submission system” format. - Export as PDF: the compiled PDF via a native save dialog. It needs a compile first; the menu says so if you haven’t. Output is ATS-clean by default: real selectable Unicode text, embedded subset fonts.
Document formats, via pandoc
Section titled “Document formats, via pandoc”- Export as Word (.docx): for the collaborator who insists on tracked changes.
- Export as HTML (.html): a single self-contained file with embedded resources and MathML for equations.
- Export as Markdown (.md) and Export as Plain text (.txt).
These run through pandoc. You don’t install it: the first export downloads pandoc automatically into Oleafly’s own folder, with progress shown, and reuses it from then on.
Context-aware formats
Section titled “Context-aware formats”The menu reads your document class:
- Export as PowerPoint (.pptx): Beamer presentations only. Each frame becomes a slide.
- Export as EPUB (.epub): books, reports, and theses. Ships with a generated table of contents.
- Export as PNG (raster image): image projects (standalone figures) only, alongside their vector PDF export.
Save into the project instead
Section titled “Save into the project instead”Different from exporting: the PDF preview’s Save PDF to project writes the compiled PDF into the project tree itself, committed via Git. Use it to snapshot “the version I submitted” next to your source.
Tagged, accessible PDFs
Section titled “Tagged, accessible PDFs”For a Section 508 / PDF-UA oriented PDF with a real tag structure, use the Preflight accessible-export flow; the result lands in the same build output and downloads like any other PDF.
Bookkeeping
Section titled “Bookkeeping”Each project remembers its recent exports (the last 50) in its own metadata, and every export ends with a toast that has a View File shortcut to the result.