Exporting your work from Overleaf
Once you have completed your project in Overleaf, you can either chose to download the final PDF output or the entire project in a .zip file. This article explains how.
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Downloading your PDF file
To download your final PDF file, in the editor click the Menu icon |
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then in the download area click the PDF icon |
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after that and depending on your web browser, a window will pop up to open the file, save it to your Downloads folder or select a different location for the downloaded file. Unless you enter a different name, the downloaded PDF will have the same name as your project. |
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Downloading the whole project
If you need to download the entire project, click the Menu button |
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now click on the "Source" icon |
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and depending on your web browser, a window will pop up to open the file, save it to your Downloads folder or select a different location for the downloaded file. The default name for your .zip file will be that of the project. |
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Downloading with .bbl file, for journal submission
Some journals require that the .bbl file (an auxiliary file containing the formatted bibliography data) is included with submissions. On Overleaf, the .bbl and other auxiliary files created during compilation are 'cached', and can be accessed from the Other logs and files dropdown menu. You can get to this by clicking the file icon beside Recompile. |
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The full project including the .bbl file can also be downloaded by
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Downloading several projects at once
To download several projects, if you are in the editor, click the "Back to projects" icon |
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There you will see a list of your projects. Tick the boxes of the ones you want to download, then click the "Download" icon |
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and depending on your web browser, a window will pop up to open the file, save it to your Downloads folder or select a different location for the downloaded file. The downloaded zip file contains a .zip file for each project. |
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Quick guide
- To download the final PDF file. Click the Menu button
then click the PDF icon
, or click the PDF download button on the built-in PDF viewer
.
- To download a project. Click the Menu button
, then click the Source icon
and select the folder where you want to save your file.
- To download several projects. Click the return-to-dashboard icon
, tick the boxes corresponding to the projects you wish to download, and click the Download icon
in the top righthand corner.
Overleaf guides
- Creating a document in Overleaf
- Uploading a project
- Copying a project
- Creating a project from a template
- Using the Overleaf project menu
- Including images in Overleaf
- Exporting your work from Overleaf
- Working offline in Overleaf
- Using Track Changes in Overleaf
- Using bibliographies in Overleaf
- Sharing your work with others
- Using the History feature
- Debugging Compilation timeout errors
- How-to guides
LaTeX Basics
- Creating your first LaTeX document
- Choosing a LaTeX Compiler
- Paragraphs and new lines
- Bold, italics and underlining
- Lists
- Errors
Mathematics
- Mathematical expressions
- Subscripts and superscripts
- Brackets and Parentheses
- Matrices
- Fractions and Binomials
- Aligning Equations
- Operators
- Spacing in math mode
- Integrals, sums and limits
- Display style in math mode
- List of Greek letters and math symbols
- Mathematical fonts
Figures and tables
- Inserting Images
- Tables
- Positioning Images and Tables
- Lists of Tables and Figures
- Drawing Diagrams Directly in LaTeX
- TikZ package
References and Citations
- Bibliography management with bibtex
- Bibliography management with natbib
- Bibliography management with biblatex
- Bibtex bibliography styles
- Natbib bibliography styles
- Natbib citation styles
- Biblatex bibliography styles
- Biblatex citation styles
Languages
- Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using polyglossia and fontspec
- Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using babel and fontspec
- International language support
- Quotations and quotation marks
- Arabic
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
Document structure
- Sections and chapters
- Table of contents
- Cross referencing sections and equations
- Indices
- Glossaries
- Nomenclatures
- Management in a large project
- Multi-file LaTeX projects
- Hyperlinks
Formatting
- Lengths in LaTeX
- Headers and footers
- Page numbering
- Paragraph formatting
- Line breaks and blank spaces
- Text alignment
- Page size and margins
- Single sided and double sided documents
- Multiple columns
- Counters
- Code listing
- Code Highlighting with minted
- Using colours in LaTeX
- Footnotes
- Margin notes
Fonts
Presentations
Commands
Field specific
- Theorems and proofs
- Chemistry formulae
- Feynman diagrams
- Molecular orbital diagrams
- Chess notation
- Knitting patterns
- CircuiTikz package
- Pgfplots package
- Typing exams in LaTeX
- Knitr
- Attribute Value Matrices
Class files
- Understanding packages and class files
- List of packages and class files
- Writing your own package
- Writing your own class
- Tips