Export: print and play, images, TTS, PDF

This article is for designers ready to get their cards off the screen: onto a home printer, to a print shop, or into Tabletop Simulator. The Export dialog covers all three.

What this page helps you do

• Print a deck at home on A4, Letter, A3 or Legal.
• Download one image per card, zipped.
• Build Tabletop Simulator deck sheets with a back and a README.
• Export a print-shop PDF with one card per page.
• Quick-export a single element as PNG or SVG.

You'll start from the Export button in the top bar of a component (or Ctrl+E / Cmd+E).

Before you start

• Beta, rolling out to teams. If Prototypes is missing from your sidebar, your team is not in the rollout yet.
• Plan: Pathfinder plan and up. Adventurer teams see "Prototypes are a Pathfinder plan feature" with Upgrade to Pathfinder. Virtual Table AI is Oracle and LaunchBoom only, 50 builds per team per day.
• Roles: Collaborators cannot use the Component Designer or 3D Mockups.
• Generate your cards first (see Data Merge). Exports render the generated cards, not the table.

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Pick what to export

Click Export. The dialog's line reads "Print at home, send to a print shop, or play online." Five kinds sit at the top: Print & play, Images, Tabletop Simulator, PDF and Virtual table.

Helpful details

• Key areas: Scope picks the pages: All cards (20), Master pages only, All pages or Current page. Back is set to Each card's own back when the design has backs; you can pick one page for every card or No back.
• What you can do: Set Resolution to 150, 300 or 600 dpi. Tick Include the 3 mm bleed when a print shop asks for bleed.
• Good to know: Copies come from the copies column ("Copies come from the 'copies' column"). The dialog shows progress as "Rendering 7 of 20", then "Export ready". Where the browser supports it, a save dialog asks where to put the file.

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Print & play

Pick Print & play, choose the Paper (A4, Letter, A3 or Legal), and click Download PDF. The editor picks the orientation that fits the most pieces per sheet and tells you: "20 cards on 3 sheets (3 × 3 per sheet)".

Helpful details

• Key areas: Crop marks adds trim marks at the corners. Cut and fold lines (dieline) draws each piece's real outline: a rounded rectangle, a circle, a hexagon, a box net or a board's fold lines.
• What you can do: Print a piece bigger than the paper. It is tiled across sheets with a 10 mm overlap and labelled row · column; the dialog says "Trim each sheet on the dashed line and glue the tiles in the order of their labels".
• Good to know: Backs go on the page after their fronts, mirrored. Print double-sided and flip on the long edge.

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Images

Pick Images, set Format to PNG or JPG, and click Download images. You get one file per piece in a zip, with backs when the design has them.

Helpful details

• Key areas: The summary reads "20 cards with backs".
• What you can do: Use 300 dpi for print services that take single card images, 150 dpi for a quick look.
• Good to know: This is the export for online card printers that want one image per card.

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Tabletop Simulator

Pick Tabletop Simulator and click Download deck. The zip holds deck sheets of up to 69 cards each (10 across, 7 down, at most 4096 px wide), a back.png, and a README with the width, height and number to type into TTS.

Helpful details

• Key areas: In TTS, go to Objects > Components > Custom > Deck, load a sheet as the face and back.png as the back, then copy the README's numbers.
• What you can do: Use different backs per card. TTS then gets a sheet-N-back.png for each face sheet (its "Unique backs" option), and the README says so.
• Good to know: The images need a public address for TTS to load them. The TTS Deck Editor tool explains hosting.

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PDF, one piece per page

Pick PDF and click Download PDF. Each card lands on its own page at its exact size, with or without bleed.

Helpful details

• Key areas: The dialog's description: "One card per page, for print shops".
• What you can do: Send this file to a printer that wants single-card pages instead of imposed sheets.
• Good to know: Backs follow their fronts in the same file.

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Virtual table

Pick Virtual table and click Render and send. The cards are rendered and saved with the component so a room can import them.

Helpful details

• Key areas: The dialog shows the last send ("On the table: 20 cards, sent 5 minutes ago") and an Open virtual table button.
• What you can do: Send again after a design change; new decks pick up the new render.
• Good to know: Nothing is downloaded. Full steps in Send a component to the Virtual Table.

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Quick-export one element

Right-click any element or selection and open Quick Export as. Choose PNG at 72 dpi (screen) or 300 dpi (print), or SVG.

Helpful details

• Key areas: The SVG is a vector file, with colors written as hex so Illustrator reads them.
• What you can do: Hand one icon or one shape to a collaborator without exporting the deck.
• Good to know: This is separate from the Export dialog and ignores scope and back settings.

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Tips & common questions

Can I save an export to a game's Media tab? Not from this dialog. The P&P Cards Layout tool and 3D Mockups offer Save to game; the Component Designer downloads only.

Which kind do I pick for a print shop? Ask them. Many want PDF (one per page) with bleed and crop marks; some take Images at 300 dpi.

My board is larger than A3. Can I still print it at home? Yes. Print & play tiles it across sheets with an overlap and labels so you can glue it together.

Why are there fewer cards in the export than rows? Check Scope. Current page exports one. Also rows whose master names a page that no longer exists make no card.

Related articles

• Turn a spreadsheet into a deck (Data Merge)
• Master pages, fronts and backs
• Send a component to the Virtual Table
• TTS Deck Editor
• P&P Cards Layout