Sharing scenes

There are two ways to send your work out, and which one you want depends on what the person on the other end has.

To someone who has LivingScene

Use Share in the deck bar. It saves your whole deck as a single file the other person can open in LivingScene, with every scene still live.

They open it with Import, and from then on it's their copy — editing it doesn't touch yours.

What travels, and what doesn't

Most things come along. A few are worth knowing about:

• Live data. If your deck draws on connected sources, LivingScene asks which of them should travel with the file before it saves. Private ones stay on your computer.
• Extensions. If a scene uses an extension the other person's app doesn't have, the deck still opens — those parts show a placeholder instead, and LivingScene says which are missing.
• Fonts. A font you added for the deck travels with it if its licence allows that. When it doesn't, the font stays on your computer and the other person sees a stand-in — LivingScene tells you which font stayed behind at the moment you share, and tells them when they open it.

If something couldn't come along, you're told what — never silently dropped.

To someone who doesn't

Use Export on the stage. It produces either:

• One document — every scene on its own page, ready to send or print.
• Separate pictures — one image per scene, in a folder you choose.

Both take your scenes in presentation order.

An exported deck is a still of a living thing, so two things happen to make that honest. Motion settles where it comes to rest rather than freezing mid-movement. And anything drawing on live data is stamped with the date and time it was accurate — so nobody reads a number as current three weeks later.

If a scene can't be pictured, it's left out and named, rather than shipped as a blank page.