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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.

Downloading your PDF file

To download your final PDF file, in the editor click the Menu icon Menuicon.png in the upper left corner.

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then in the download area click the PDF icon Pdficon.png

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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 Menuicon.png

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now click on the "Source" icon Sourceicon.png

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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

  • clicking Submit in the top right hand corner
  • searching and selecting arXiv
  • selecting Download with .bb from the dialogue there.
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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 Backtoprojectsicon.png

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There you will see a list of your projects. Thick the boxes of the ones you want to download, then click the "Download" icon Clouddownloadicon.png

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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 Menuicon.png then click the PDF icon Pdficon.png, or click the PDF download button on the built-in PDF viewer PDFdownloadicon.png.
  • To download a project. Click the Menu button Menuicon.png, then click the Source icon Sourceicon.png and select the folder where you want to save your file.
  • To download several projects. Click the return-to-dashboard icon Backtoprojectsicon.png, tick the boxes corresponding to the projects you wish to download, and click the Download icon Clouddownloadicon.png in the top righthand corner.

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