Printing and images

Timescrolly can turn a timeline into something to put on a slide, hand in or hang on a wall. This article covers the three ways to do it: an image of the view, a booklet as a PDF or Word file, and a poster. For a full copy of your data as a backup, see Backing up your data instead.

Which one do you need?

Who can use them

Capture works for everyone who opens the timeline in the viewer on Timescrolly, signed in or not; it isn't offered inside an embed. A booklet needs you to be signed in and the timeline shared with your account; a share link alone is not enough.

What a paid plan adds follows one rule. You get it when you are on Pro or Team, for any timeline you can open, or when you can edit the timeline and its owner is on a paid plan. That covers a student working in a teacher's team, or an editor on a Pro user's timeline. Everyone else gets a capture with a small Made with Timescrolly mark, and an invitation to upgrade instead of a booklet. See Plans and billing.

Capture an image of the view

Capture, under the Export button in the viewer's header, puts a frame over part of the timeline. Drag the frame by its edge, resize it by its handles, or pick a Shape: Window, 16:9, 4:3, Square, A4 or Letter (portrait or landscape), or Custom. You can still pan and zoom the timeline underneath it, so frame the moment you want before you capture it.

Then choose:

• PNG for an image, or PDF for a single page;
• the resolution, Standard or High;
• light or dark;
• an optional Caption, set on a strip under the image.

A very large frame at High resolution is scaled down to the size limit; the panel says so. If an image on the timeline could not be loaded, the capture still goes ahead and tells you how many were left out. Cancel, or Esc, leaves capture mode. Capturing isn't available on phones.

Export a booklet

A booklet is the whole timeline as a document: a title page, then its items in date order, each with as much detail as you choose. Booklet or poster is under the Export button in the viewer's header, and New export is on the timeline's Exports tab; choose Booklet. In the dialog, choose:

• the File: PDF to read, print or hand in, or Word to keep writing in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice;
• the language for the booklet's headings, month names and citations, from the six Timescrolly supports;
• the Paper size, A4 or US Letter;
• What to include. Full booklet takes everything, Text only leaves out the images, and Item list prints the items as a compact table of dates and titles with their details and sources. You can also tick the parts one by one: Description, Contents (printed only when the timeline has two or more periods), Notes, Images, Details, Attachments and Sources.

A Word file has the same content and order as the PDF. It is built from Word's own styles, so you can restyle the whole document at once. Each cited item has one footnote after its title, listing its sources, and Word renumbers the footnotes as you move or delete entries. The bibliography is unnumbered, and the contents are links to the periods, without page numbers. A heavily cited timeline can be too large as a Word file when the PDF is not, because every citation is printed again in its footnote; export it as a PDF, or leave out the sources.

Choose Request booklet. It is built in the background, usually in a minute or two, and you get a notification when it is ready. The timeline's Exports tab lists the booklets you requested, with their file, paper and language; choose Download next to one. Nobody else sees your booklets.

A booklet can be downloaded 5 times within 7 days, after which you request a new one. You can have one booklet of a timeline in preparation at a time, PDF or Word; someone else can export the same timeline meanwhile. You can request up to 20 booklets a day. A timeline that is too large for one booklet fails with a note saying so; export it again without notes, images or sources, or, for a Word file, as a PDF. If you lose access to the timeline, your booklets of it can no longer be downloaded either.

Print a poster

Coming soon.

Related

See Getting started for finding your way around the viewer, and Backing up your data for a full backup of everything you own.