Your diagrams are not locked inside livediagram. When you want a copy to drop into a slide deck, a document, or a chat, you can export the current tab as an image. And when you want the diagram to stay live wherever you put it, you can embed a read-only view instead.
Exporting as an image
The editor can render the current tab to an image file you can save and share anywhere. Because the export is built from the same elements you see on the canvas, what you get matches the diagram exactly.
A few things to know about image exports:
- Looping element animations and animated backgrounds freeze to a static frame in the export, so a still image always looks clean.
- Frames render behind their contents, just as they do on the canvas, so a section stays a backdrop in the exported image.
- The export covers the current tab, so switch to the tab you want before exporting a multi-tab diagram.
An image is the right choice when you need a fixed snapshot: a diagram for a report, an attachment, or a printout.
Embedding a live view
When you want the diagram to keep updating wherever it lives, embed it instead. An embed is a read-only iframe of a shared diagram that you can drop into Notion, a wiki, or any doc that accepts an iframe.
An embed is always read-only, whatever role the share link carries, so editing happens back in the full editor. It hides all the editor chrome, leaving just the canvas with pan and zoom, and it stays live: as the diagram is edited, the embed updates in place rather than showing a stale snapshot.
To grab one, open the Share dialog and use the Embed copy button next to a link. It copies a ready-made iframe snippet, sized sensibly, that you can paste straight into your page.
Reach for an image when you need a fixed snapshot, and an embed when you want the diagram to keep updating in place wherever you have put it.
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