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Pasting and detection
- How to copy a whole reply from your AI assistantWhat the “Copy” button gives you in ChatGPT and Claude, and why you can paste the whole reply into Diagramate without cutting out the code block.
- Using Diagramate on a phoneHow pasting, rendering, theming and downloading work on a phone, including the editor drawer.
Errors and fixes
- Common errors and how to fix themWhat each message in the error bar means and how to fix it - arrows, the end keyword, unclosed brackets, full-width punctuation, missing diagram type, missing end, mind map roots, oversized diagrams.
- Mind map syntax and indentation rulesA Mermaid mindmap cheat sheet - one root, levels by indentation, node shapes, no list markers - plus the prompt that gets assistants to output mindmap code directly.
- Large diagrams - the edge limit and export scaleDiagrams with more than 500 edges are refused by the renderer; a few hundred nodes take a couple of seconds to lay out; export scale is lowered automatically, and SVG has no pixel limit.
Export and files
- Putting the diagram into Word and PowerPointWhat the exported docx and pptx contain, how to edit the diagram later, when to use PNG or SVG, and how the clipboard copy works.
- Why the PDF is a bitmap, and how to get vector outputDiagramate's PDF wraps a 3x high-resolution image in a page sized to the diagram. For vector output, export SVG and convert.
- Downloads do not work inside an in-app browserIn-app browsers such as WeChat block file downloads. Open the page in your regular browser, or copy the PNG to the clipboard instead.