Export and share the plot

Everything leaves through File → Export and File → Share. The input list also continues into the other tools: File → Open input list in RiderSmith… (the tech rider) and File → Open input list in PatchSmith… (the patch sheet) save the plot, open that tool and show its import preview — you pick which plot (the current one or a saved plot) and which rows, and nothing lands there until you confirm the import there.

Export PDF

1. File → Export → Export PDF.
2. The dialog lets you choose what to add: the DMX patch list, and a QR code that links to a public view-only copy of the plot (valid for one year — off unless you tick it; the choice is remembered). The plot and its input list are always included.
3. Press Export. The PDF downloads.

The exported picture covers the stage plus anything you marked include in tech rider, wherever it sits — an FOH position out in the audience is on the page too.

The plan is captured at the stage's true proportions, and the stage dimensions you entered are printed beside it. Show info — event, venue, date, load-in / soundcheck / show times, band logo and contact — comes from Band → Show info & logo. Elements on a hidden layer, and any element with include in tech rider unticked, stay out of the PDF.

Other exports

• Export PNG — the canvas as an image, for the group chat.
• Export to file (.stageplot.json) — the whole plot as a file. This is your backup outside the browser and the way to hand a plot to someone for editing. Bring one back with File → Open → From file (.stageplot.json)…; the tool asks before loading a file written by a newer version.
• Send plot to venue (PDF + link) — generates the PDF and a view-only share link in one step, for the venue.

Share links

File → Share… opens one dialog that mints a short link of the form …/share/stage-plot-generator/<token>, with a QR code and a Copy link button. You need to be signed in and online to create one. A switch at the top of the dialog says who the link is for:

• View-only — for the venue. Anyone with the link sees the plot; no account, no licence, nothing to install. Rotation, editing and the menu bar are disabled for them.
• Bandmates who own the tool can open their own copy — the same read-only view, but a signed-in recipient who owns the tool also gets Open a copy in the editor. That loads the plot into their own editor as a working copy; their own autosaved work is untouched until they save.

A link is a snapshot of the plot as it was when you shared it. Later edits stay in your editor — share again to send an update. Links are set to expire after 360 days, and an account can hold 50 at a time; delete old ones from your account page when you hit the limit. If the band logo is too large for the share payload the plot is shared without it.

Every link is listed on your account page with the plot's name, who it was for (view-only or a copy for bandmates), a Copy link button and Delete. Inside the tool, Revoke link in the share dialog does the same for the link on screen — it stops working for everyone who has it. The viewer shows the date the snapshot was taken, so nobody mistakes an old link for the current plot. A share link also fits Show Clock: attach it to a slot there with ＋ Attach a link, and the crew opens the plot from the running order.

Your plots on the account page

The account page has a Stage plots section: the working plot, the explicit save and every saved plot the tool keeps in your account, with when each was last saved. Open loads exactly that document in the tool, Download gives you the same .stageplot.json the tool exports, and Delete removes it from the account (a browser that still holds it will upload it again the next time it saves). The dashboard tile shows your last plot and when it was saved.

Older #state= links from earlier versions still open, but the app no longer produces them.