# Import and export > Save a map as a picture, a PDF or a file, move whole projects between computers as one bundle, and bring anything Flozu made back in. Everything in Flozu can leave as a file and come back: one map, a project, or every map you have. The most common reason is a slide deck: choose **Export…** in the **Actions** menu, pick **PNG image**, tick **See-through background**, and the whole map drops onto any slide, sharp at twice its size. Files also back your maps up, move them to another computer, and hand them to someone else who uses Flozu. ## Export **Export** opens the same dialog wherever you find it: - **Export…** in the editor’s **Actions** menu, on the island, for the map that’s open. - A map’s menu on the Maps page. - A project’s or folder’s menu, on its page and in the **Maps** panel. - **Export…** in the **⋯** menu on the Maps page: on All maps for every map, and on a project for that project. - **File › Export…** (`⌘E`) in the [Mac app](https://docs.flozu.app/mac/overview.md), for what’s on show, and **File › Export all maps…** (`⌥⌘E`). ![The export dialog for Checkout system: PNG image chosen, with SVG drawing, PDF, Map file and Map with its history below, a Theme menu and a See-through background box.](https://docs.flozu.app/_astro/export-light.BGVY_5Ic_Z28poYp.webp) Pick what you want, then **Export**. The dialog offers what fits what you’re exporting. ### A picture of the map | Choice | What you get | | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **PNG image** | A picture of the whole map at twice its size, for slides and chats. | | **SVG drawing** | Real shapes and text that stay sharp at any size, for design tools and the web. | | **PDF** | One page of the same shapes and text, for printing and documents. | A picture shows the whole map, not just what fits on screen, as it looks now: its styles, zones, notes, line labels and the load of any scenario you’re trying. Motion is stilled, so each part shows its resting frame, and nothing is selected. - **Theme** draws it dark or light, whichever you’re using now unless you change it. - **See-through background** leaves the background out of a PNG or SVG, so it sits on any slide. Pictures need the map on screen, so they’re offered in the editor. From a map’s card, the dialog says to open the map first. > **Note** > > A PDF’s text is in Helvetica, which every PDF reader has, so letters outside Western alphabets don’t show in a PDF yet. Use a PNG or SVG for those. ### A file to open again | Choice | File | What it holds | | ------------------------------------------ | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Map file** | `.flozu.json` | The map as it is now, with its stories and saved scenarios. | | **Map with its history** | `.flozu-bundle.json` | The map, its versions and proposals, and any [maps inside its parts](https://docs.flozu.app/guides/maps-inside-parts.md). | | **The project with everything in it** | `.flozu-bundle.json` | Every map in the project, in its folders, empty folders too. | | **The folder with everything in it** | `.flozu-bundle.json` | The same, for one folder. | | **Every map, in its projects and folders** | `.flozu-bundle.json` | Your whole library. | A file of several maps is a **bundle**. For a project, a folder or every map, tick **Include versions and proposals** to take their history too. Before you export, the dialog says what the file will hold, such as “It holds 12 maps, 3 folders and 20 versions”. A bundle also carries any map a part in it opens into that’s kept somewhere else, so its links still lead somewhere when it’s imported. > **Tip** > > In the browser, deleting a folder offers **Export its maps first**, so nothing is lost by accident. In the Mac app, a deleted folder goes to the Trash. ## Import Bring in any file Flozu exports, three ways: - **Import** on home, or **Import…** in the **⋯** menu on the Maps page. - Drop files anywhere on a page of maps. - **File › Import…** (`⌘O`) in the Mac app. Maps come into the project or folder on show. Flozu works out what each file is from what’s in it, not its name: a map, a bundle, or a single version, which joins its map when you have it. Maps made by an older version of Flozu are updated as they come in. An outline Claude wrote from your code comes in drawn as a new map: see [map your code with Claude](https://docs.flozu.app/guides/map-your-code.md). ### An import never overwrites anything - **A map you already have** comes in as a copy beside it, with its own versions. Links to it from other maps in the same bundle follow the copy. - **A bundle’s top folders** come in under a free name, so a project imported beside itself becomes “Payments 2”. - **A map a part opens into** isn’t copied again if you already have it. - **Something that can’t be read,** such as one damaged map, is left out and named, and the rest still comes in. A bundle that would nest folders more than six deep is refused before anything is made. If a file won’t import at all, see [troubleshooting](https://docs.flozu.app/help/troubleshooting.md#a-file-wont-import). ## Other ways to share - **A share link** carries a map inside the link, for someone to look at without importing anything. See [share a link](https://docs.flozu.app/guides/presenting-and-sharing.md#share-a-link). - **In the Mac app** each map is already a file in Documents › Flozu, so anything that syncs that folder moves your maps too. See [files and folders](https://docs.flozu.app/mac/files-and-folders.md). The files themselves are described in [file format](https://docs.flozu.app/reference/file-format.md).