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Export takes your manuscript out of Writer Studio in the format your next step needs — a Word file for an editor, an e-book for a store, or the file a Russian platform expects. Your book is always yours: export is the proof you are never locked in.

Formats

Format Best for
DOCX Handing off to an editor or proofreader in Word
EPUB Publish-ready e-book for stores and e-readers
FB2 Russian platforms — ЛитРес, Litnet, Author.Today
PDF Print-ready document (best-effort)
Markdown Plain text format (best-effort)

DOCX, EPUB, and FB2 are the core formats. PDF and Markdown are best-effort.

How to export

Open export from the Export command in the command palette, or the File section of the app menu.

In the export dialog:

  1. Choose a format (DOCX / EPUB / FB2 / PDF / Markdown).
  2. Review the settings — what is included, and where the file goes.
  3. Read any pre-export checks (see below).
  4. Click Export.

When it finishes, you can open the file or show it in its folder.

What the file contains

  • Correct order. Parts, chapters, and scenes come out in the exact order you wrote them.
  • Real styles. Structure maps to real Word styles in DOCX and proper markup in EPUB/FB2 — not faked bold or centered text — so the file stays clean and editable downstream.
  • Book metadata. Title and author come from your book's metadata.
  • Scene breaks. Two scenes in one chapter are separated by a visible break (*** by default).
  • Faithful prose. Export reproduces your text exactly, character for character. Russian typography («ёлочки», em-dash dialogue, non-breaking spaces) is preserved because it is already correct in your manuscript — export never re-formats your words.

A part, when you use one, becomes the top-level division; chapters sit under it; scenes with no chapter become chapter-level divisions on their own. You don't have to use parts or chapters — whatever structure you have maps sensibly.

Pre-export checks

Before exporting, Writer Studio runs basic checks and surfaces anything worth knowing — a missing title, an empty scene — without blocking the export if you want to go ahead anyway.

Trash is excluded

Anything in the Trash never appears in any exported file. See Safety & Recovery. Export is read-only over your story content — it never changes your manuscript.

Saving export settings

Set the format, included content, and output location, then reuse them on your next export. Saved settings are part of your project, not your manuscript.

Once you've saved export settings, run Quick Export from the command palette to repeat the same export instantly without opening the dialog.

Professional preparation (PRO)

For publish-ready output without a separate tool, PRO adds professional formatting — themes, drop caps, scene-break ornaments, chapter styles. Base export to DOCX, EPUB, and FB2 is always free.

Front and back matter (title page, dedication, epigraph, copyright, author note) and platform-specific metadata for Russian serial platforms are free too — no PRO needed. Turn on front/back matter with the toggles in the export dialog; RU-platform fields come from your book's metadata and export automatically.

You can also choose which scene statuses go into a file — for example, export only finished scenes for beta readers. The dialog shows exactly what is included and what is excluded, with counts, so nothing is dropped silently. By default the whole book exports.

  • Import — bring an existing draft into Writer Studio
  • Share a draft — send a draft to beta readers without exporting files
  • Metadata — the title and author info that export uses