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Export and share

Getting work out of Rayzia splits into four jobs: keeping it safe while you draw, keeping it on your account, handing a picture to someone else, and keeping a lossless copy for yourself. Each one uses a different mechanism, and it is worth knowing which is which. This lesson covers all four, including exactly where the Pro line sits.

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You do not need to save

Rayzia is local-first. As you draw, the whole document is snapshotted into your browser's storage roughly 1.2 seconds after your edits settle, or about 5 seconds after a view-only change like a pan or zoom. There is another flush when you hide or close the tab. Identical snapshots are skipped, and a write that fails is retried rather than quietly assumed to have worked.

Reload the page and the session comes back through the normal open path, so your zoom, your pan and your document settings return as they were. There is no Save button to remember and no dialog in the way.

Autosave lives in the browser on that one device. It is not a backup and it is not the cloud. Its record is deliberately lean: fonts are not embedded, so Google fonts you used are re-fetched when the session restores. Only the .rzv file export carries fonts inside it.

Cloud files, and the pill that tells you the truth

Sign in and the same snapshot is also pushed to your account after a 4 second quiet window. The status pill sits to the left of the account chip and reads saving…, saved, retry… or full — Upgrade. When you are signed out the pill is hidden, because nothing is going anywhere.

Local storage stays the source of truth. The cloud copy follows it. A device binds to one cloud document at a time, and that binding is cleared when you start a new document or open a file from disk or Drive. A blank page never burns a slot: the document has to have real content before it claims one.

  • Free: 3 cloud documents and 200 MB in total.
  • Pro: unlimited documents under a 10 GB fair-use ceiling.
  • Either plan: any single document is capped at 25 MB.
  • Limits are enforced by the server, not by the button. The dimmed UI is a courtesy.

Your documents live at /files/, which needs a sign-in. It has Recents, Starred and Shared sections, and each file has a menu with Open, Rename, Duplicate, Star, Share, Download .rzv and Delete. Starring is stored on the device only.

Export: three quick formats, or the full dialog

File ▸ Export gives you SVG, PNG and JPG. The engine serialises the scene, then the page either downloads the SVG text or rasterises it through a canvas at quality 0.95. PNG keeps transparency. JPG gets a white background painted behind it first, because JPEG has no alpha. The command bar's Export icon opens the same three.

File ▸ Export for Screens is the real one. Every target you tick crosses with every scale and every format, and each combination downloads as its own file named like [email protected].

  1. Choose targets Document is always there. Selection appears only when something is selected. Named assets appear only for objects you have marked as assets with the dialog's own button.
  2. Choose scales 1x and 0.5x on any plan. 2x, 3x and 4x are Pro.
  3. Choose formats PNG, JPG, SVG and WebP on any plan. PDF is Pro.
  4. Export SVG output is the scene re-cropped through the viewBox. The raster formats go through a canvas at 0.92 quality. PDF is a high-resolution JPEG wrapped in a minimal PDF sized to the crop.

On Free, the gated chips render dimmed with a PRO badge and the export path re-filters them a second time on the way out. This is not a UI trick you can talk your way past from the console: the plan is read from your account.

Share links

From the files page, Share on any file mints a view-only public link at /shared/. Both Free and Pro can share. Enabling share mints a fresh token every time, so an old link you have lost control of stops working the moment you re-share. Unshare clears it, and a dead link says so plainly.

The viewer is deliberately dull. It renders the document through a blob URL image, so a hostile SVG cannot run script at a visitor. It shows the document name, a view-only footer and an Open Rayzia link. The page is noindex.

One Pro gate here: if the owner is on Free, the shared view carries a small Made with Rayzia badge in the corner of the artwork. Pro owners get a clean link. The badge is decided by the owner's plan and the API does not leak who the owner is.

The .rzv file

File ▸ Save Rayzia (.rzv) downloads the lossless native document. It is a small binary container: a header, then typed chunks for the scene, the camera, document metadata, swatches, artboards, guides, the grid, font and image bytes, and a renderable preview. Text payloads over 64 bytes are gzipped, and unknown chunk types are skipped on read so old builds and new files can coexist.

The important part is fonts. The .rzv snapshot embeds the fonts you actually used, which is what makes the file portable to another machine. An SVG export does not do that. Older SVG-based .rzv files still open and are migrated to the new container the next time you save.

Two honest caveats. The native format is still described in its own spec as a prototype, wired into Save and Open. And the Download .rzv button on the files page streams back what the cloud stores, which is the SVG-based form, not the binary container. Use File ▸ Save Rayzia if you want the embedded-font copy.

A note on the shortcut labels

The File menu prints accelerators next to Save, Open, Place Image and the rest. Do not trust them. The menu's shortcut text is cosmetic and the table that would have turned those labels into working keys does not run in this build. The menu items themselves work perfectly when clicked. Click them.

This is a real defect, not a design choice, and it is on the list. Until it is fixed, treat every key printed in the menu as decoration.

Common questions

If autosave already keeps my work, why sign in?

Autosave is one browser on one device. Clear your site data or move to a different machine and it is gone. Signing in copies the same snapshot to your account so the document follows you, and it is what makes share links possible. Free gives you 3 cloud documents.

Which export should I use for a website?

SVG, unless you have a reason not to. The Rayzia document is SVG natively, so the export is the artwork rather than a picture of it: it scales, it stays small, and text stays text. Use PNG when you need a fixed raster with transparency, and JPG only for photographic content where the white background does not matter.

What exactly is Pro-gated in export and sharing?

Four things. Export scales above 1x (that is 2x, 3x and 4x). PDF as an export format. Unlimited cloud documents instead of 3. And a share link without the Made with Rayzia badge. Everything else, including SVG, PNG, JPG, WebP, 0.5x and 1x, sharing itself and the .rzv file, is free.

Can I get an old version of a document back?

Not from the interface today. Pro accounts do retain past revisions on the server and the API can fetch a specific one, but there is no panel in the editor or on the files page that browses them yet. If a version matters to you right now, save a .rzv copy.