Export, and MangaLoft Plus

A file out of the app. Needs MangaLoft Plus.

You will end withA file out of the app. Needs MangaLoft Plus.

Before you startExporting needs MangaLoft Plus, an optional subscription. Everything before this page is free.

1. Export the whole manga

Go to the page list and choose File ▸ Export Document… (⌘E). Without MangaLoft Plus you see the plans first; see step 3.

The Export Document sheet: Format, Color, Bounds, Resolution, the number of pages and the estimated size, with Cancel and Export

Four choices, top to bottom:

Format — PDF is one file with every page, the easiest to send to someone. PNG (ZIP) and TIFF (ZIP) give one picture per page, packed together.
Color — Grayscale suits most manga. Monochrome 2-tone is pure black and white; some printers ask for it. Color keeps your colours.
Bounds — For Display is the finished page, cut at the trim line: choose this for a screen, the web, or posting. For Print keeps the bleed and adds printer's marks.
Resolution — 150 DPI is enough for this exercise. For print, use the resolution your printer asks for.

To show your pages to a friend: PDF, Grayscale, For Display, 150 DPI.

Choose Export, then say where to save the file.

On iPad, the export button is in the toolbar of the page list: the square with an arrow pointing up. The sheet has the same four choices. Cancel closes it and nothing else happens.

The export sheet on iPad: Format set to PDF, Color set to Grayscale, Bounds set to For Display, Resolution set to 150 DPI, with Cancel and Export at the bottom — On iPad, set as suggested above: PDF, Grayscale, For Display, 150 DPI.

When the export is ready, iPad shows its share sheet. Choose Save to Files to keep the file, or send it straight to another app.

2. Export one page

Open the page and choose File ▸ Export Current Page… (⌘⇧E). Or, in the page list, right-click a page and choose Export Page….

The Export Page sheet: Format with PNG, TIFF, PDF and MangaPage, Bounds, and four presets of colour and resolution

The choices are the same, with two differences. Colour and resolution come as ready-made pairs. And there is a fourth format, MangaPage: not a picture but the page itself, still editable, to move into another document or send to another person.

Choose Export and say where to save it. With the display setting, what comes out is the page alone, cut at the trim line, with none of the grid or guides you see while drawing:

An exported manga page: five panels with two young witches, a castle and a dragon, with speech balloons — A page exported as PNG, Grayscale 350 DPI, For Display.

3. If you do not have MangaLoft Plus yet

When you choose to export without a subscription, MangaLoft shows what MangaLoft Plus includes and its plans, before any export options. Maybe later closes it, and nothing is lost: your document stays as it is.

The MangaLoft Plus sheet: All export options, from screen to print, with four lines describing what is included — The top of the sheet. The plans and their prices follow below it.

MangaLoft Plus is one subscription, for one year or three months, and it covers every export: screen or print, one page or the whole manga. Drawing and editing are free, with or without it. If a subscription ends, only exporting stops; your documents stay yours.

4. See or change your subscription

On Mac, MangaLoft ▸ Settings… (⌘,) shows your plan and when it renews, with Manage Subscription and Restore Purchases. On iPad, it is behind the gear in the document browser. Use Restore Purchases if you subscribed on another device and this one does not know yet.

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