Export

The following pages give a very in-depth description of the Ulysses Exporter. For an overview, especially on how to include pictures and footnotes in exported documents, please have a look at the Screencast Web Resource on Exporting.

Ulysses can export projects or parts of projects to other file formats using plug-ins. The following exporters are already included in Ulysses:

Plain Text (exports to .txt)
Rich Text Format (exports to .rtf and .rtfd)
Word Format (exports to .doc)
PDF (exports to .pdf)
LaTeX (exports to .tex)
Web (exports to .html and other web formats)
ePub (exports to .ePub)
Ulysses Project

The export mode can be reached by selecting "Export…" in the Project menu, by pressing Command-Shift-E, or by clicking on "Export" in the toolbar.

Selecting documents

After switching to the export mode, checkboxes appear on the left-hand side to the documents in the browser. The documents to be exported can be selected by activating the checkboxes right next to them. If you don't see all the documents of your Project in the browser, you should check if your Filter Button is enabled. You can find this button right next to the search bar on the top. Simply disable it and all your documents will be shown in the Browser again. If you want to select or deselect all documents at once, press the Option key while selecting a checkbox.
The order of export is the same as the document order in the browser. For document ordering, see the section "Browser", especially "Manual Sorting". The export format can be chosen on the top left of the export area.

The last export mode, "Ulysses Project", will not be covered here. It simply exports a part (or all) of the document in the current Ulysses project to a new Ulysses project. The documents to be exported simply have to be ticked in the Browser on the left-hand side.

The "Save…" and the "Print…" buttons are grayed out! What gives?
- Before you can save or print your exported file, you need to select the Documents you want to export first. You can do that in the Documents Browser. If you want to export all documents, hold the Option key while clicking on a checkbox in the Browser.
How do I export Export templates?
- Depending on which Exporter you mean, just go to the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Ulysses/LaTeX or ~/Library/Application Support/Ulysses/FormattedText and copy the files you need to be exported.
Things you might not know about the Exporter
- There's an option to transform Markers into Start and stop tags in the "Marker styles" section of the Exporters. The option is called "Enclose in".
  What this does is it will strip the marker format and instead add the specified characters before and behind the marked text passage. This is especially useful when exporting to the Plain Text format, where markers would otherwise get lost (no formats in plain text, he).
  
  To define differing opening and closing character(s), simply put them together in the Character(s) column, but separate them by " - " (space dash space).
  Example: You have marked "this text passage".
  You want it enclosed in HTML- or LaTeX tags, which require explicit open- and close-tags, such as "<b>" and "</b>".
  To get this result, put both the start- and end-tag into the Character(s) column, separated by *space dash space*: <b> - </b>

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