Exporting your work from Overleaf
This article explains how to export Overleaf projects as a .zip file or download just the final typeset PDF. Each process is explained step-by-step but a quick guide is also provided.
Important notes
- For the avoidance of doubt, the term “source”, or “source files”, refers to one or more text and/or graphics files required to typeset your document, whereas the “result” or “typeset result” is the PDF file produced from typesetting your “source files”.
- Projects exported (downloaded) from Overleaf are provided as a .zip file which contains the source files used to create the typeset PDF. That .zip file will contain the source files only, it does not include the final typeset PDF itself which must be downloaded separately, after successful compilation.
Quick guide
- To download the typeset PDF file:
- select the Menu button ( ) then select the PDF icon , or
- select the PDF download button displayed on the PDF viewer ( ).
- To download a project: select the Menu button ( ), then choose the Source icon ( ) to initiate download of a .zip file to your device.
- To download several projects: if you have a project open, select the Back to your projects icon ( ). Next, tick the check-boxes corresponding to projects you wish to download, then choose the download button ( ) to initiate download of a .zip file to your device. That .zip file contains further .zip files, one for each project.
Downloading the typeset PDF file
There are two options for downloading the PDF file.
Option 1
- Select the Menu button ( ) in the upper-left of the editor window:


Option 2
- From within the PDF display window, select the Download PDF icon to the right of the Recompile button:

Downloading Overleaf projects
Here we show how to download your current project as a .zip file, or how to download multiple projects as a single .zip file inside of which there are further .zip files, one for each project.
Downloading your current project as a .zip file
- Select the Menu button ( ) in the upper-left of the editor window:


Downloading multiple projects as a .zip file
- Assuming you are in the editor, select the Back to your projects icon ( ):


Including a .bbl file (for journal submissions)
Some journal-submission processes ask for the LaTeX-generated .bbl file—an auxiliary file containing the formatted bibliography data—to be included with the article source files of LaTeX submissions. On Overleaf, .bbl files, and any other auxiliary files created during compilation, are “cached” but there are two ways to access the .bbl files:
- option 1: using the Other logs and files dropdown menu, or
- option 2: downloading via Overleaf’s arXiv submission process
Option 1: Using “Other logs and files”
Follow these steps to download just the .bbl file generated for your project:
-
Select the file icon (Logs and output files) next to the Recompile button:



Option 2: via Overleaf’s arXiv submission process
The full project source files, including the .bbl file, can also be downloaded via the arXiv-submission process as shown in the following step-by-step guide.



Do not worry, selecting this option this will not immediately send the project files to arXiv; instead, it displays another window which lets you download your article, complete with .bbl file, for onward submission to arXiv:

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Uploading a project
This article provides a step-by-step guide showing how to create an Overleaf project by uploading a .zip file containing LaTeX files stored on your local computer.
- Create a .zip file containing your local files (images, bibliography, fonts, .tex sources, etc.).
- If your local LaTeX project uses folders, these can be preserved in the .zip file and will be reconstructed when the .zip file is unpacked on Overleaf.
- In the Project Management page, select New Project then choose Upload Project from within the drop-down menu.


- You now have a new Overleaf project, ready for editing and recompiling. Note: if your LaTeX code needs LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX you may need to set the project’s LaTeX compiler.

Additional guidance on file uploads (including restrictions/limits)
If you plan to upload large projects, here are some Overleaf resource limits/restrictions you need to be aware of:
- You cannot upload individual files which exceed 50MB.
- Each upload can contain up to 40 files—if you attempt to upload more than that, only 40 files will be uploaded.
- Each Overleaf project cannot contain more than 2000 individual files.
If your project’s .zip file exceeds 50MB you can try this:
- Upload a subset of your files in a .zip file (just to create the project).
- Manually upload the remaining files.
For a .zip file to upload properly:
- It should contain only file types that a LaTeX compiler can process: plain text files and images in .eps , .pdf , .svg and .png formats.
- It cannot contain more than 7MB of material that can be edited on Overleaf (this is the maximum editable data for a project on Overleaf). For further information, please refer to the page What is the maximum compilation time, file number and project size allowed on free vs paid plans?
Although the Overleaf editor can edit any plain text file, only those uploaded files with the most common LaTeX file extensions will be editable on the site—such as .tex , .bib , .cls , .sty etc. Suppose you need to edit a project file with a different extension. In that case, it is best to copy and paste its content into a new blank file within the project and then save it with the desired file extension; alternatively, upload it with a .tex extension and change it once online.
Text files larger than 2MB cannot be edited online and don’t count toward the 7MB limit, which means, for example, you can upload large .csv files for use with Rtex without using up your 7MB editable data allowance.
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- Exporting your work from Overleaf
- Working offline in Overleaf
- Using Track Changes in Overleaf
- Using bibliographies in Overleaf
- Sharing your work with others
- Using the History feature
- Debugging Compilation timeout errors
- How-to guides
- Guide to Overleaf’s premium features
LaTeX Basics
- Creating your first LaTeX document
- Choosing a LaTeX Compiler
- Paragraphs and new lines
- Bold, italics and underlining
- Lists
- Errors
Mathematics
- Mathematical expressions
- Subscripts and superscripts
- Brackets and Parentheses
- Matrices
- Fractions and Binomials
- Aligning equations
- Operators
- Spacing in math mode
- Integrals, sums and limits
- Display style in math mode
- List of Greek letters and math symbols
- Mathematical fonts
- Using the Symbol Palette in Overleaf
Figures and tables
- Inserting Images
- Tables
- Positioning Images and Tables
- Lists of Tables and Figures
- Drawing Diagrams Directly in LaTeX
- TikZ package
References and Citations
- Bibliography management with bibtex
- Bibliography management with natbib
- Bibliography management with biblatex
- Bibtex bibliography styles
- Natbib bibliography styles
- Natbib citation styles
- Biblatex bibliography styles
- Biblatex citation styles
Languages
- Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using polyglossia and fontspec
- Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using babel and fontspec
- International language support
- Quotations and quotation marks
- Arabic
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
Document structure
- Sections and chapters
- Table of contents
- Cross referencing sections, equations and floats
- Indices
- Glossaries
- Nomenclatures
- Management in a large project
- Multi-file LaTeX projects
- Hyperlinks
Formatting
- Lengths in L a T e X
- Headers and footers
- Page numbering
- Paragraph formatting
- Line breaks and blank spaces
- Text alignment
- Page size and margins
- Single sided and double sided documents
- Multiple columns
- Counters
- Code listing
- Code Highlighting with minted
- Using colours in LaTeX
- Footnotes
- Margin notes
Fonts
- Font sizes, families, and styles
- Font typefaces
- Supporting modern fonts with X Ǝ L a T e X
Presentations
Commands
Field specific
- Theorems and proofs
- Chemistry formulae
- Feynman diagrams
- Molecular orbital diagrams
- Chess notation
- Knitting patterns
- CircuiTikz package
- Pgfplots package
- Typesetting exams in LaTeX
- Knitr
- Attribute Value Matrices
Class files
- Understanding packages and class files
- List of packages and class files
- Writing your own package
- Writing your own class
Advanced TeX/LaTeX
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Tip of the Week: How to download an Overleaf template
Posted by Graham on February 1, 2022
This tip was first published on 20 January 2018 and updated on 1 February 2022. We receive a number of technical support questions which ask how to download an Overleaf template so that its files/folders can be used in a local TeX installation. So, we decided to write a short article showing you how to do it. Firstly, start by searching the Gallery to find a template you’d like to use in a local TeX installation:
After identifying a suitable template, select the Open as Template button to create an Overleaf project:
Once the project has compiled, select the Menu button (top-left corner of the workspace) then select the Source icon to download the project source files as a ZIP file:
The project source files are downloaded to a ZIP file from which you can extract files to use in your local TeX installation.
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