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How to Share Layers with Export

NOTE: This video shows an older user interface and some of the exact steps may have changed.

Layers allows users to organize their annotations, including highlights, photos, and written notes, into separate screen overlays that can be toggled on and off.

Users can export a layer with a set of annotations as a Scriptation Layer File (.slf) and other Scriptation users can then import that layer file into their own PDF script.

NOTE: Shareable Layers is an Industry Pro feature. However, any Scriptation user can receive and import a .slf file.

Touch or click the Layers icon to display the Layers menu:
The Layers list will be displayed. Touch or click the Export icon at the upper left:

Choose Export SLF:

Select the layer to be exported and touch or click Share:

The standard iOS or macOS sharing dialogue will be displayed; from here you can send or save the Scriptation Layer File the way you would any other kind of file:

When the recipient receives this file, they open it in Scriptation, choose the correct target file and the exported layer will be added to it.

NOTE: When a Layer is exported, only annotations on Native script pages are shared. Annotations on Added Pages, Facing Pages, or Copied/Pasted Pages are not. This restriction allows for the successful sharing of Layers between teams working on the same script, as added pages are personalized to each individual user. Want to share ALL of your notes? Share the file instead.

TIP: Scriptation Team and Team Studio users: Check out Live Layers!

What's Next

Just receive a Layer? Learn to Import Layers
What are Live Layers?
How to Show/Hide Layers

Updated on: 21/03/2025

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