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A complete overview of what Autype can do — from writing and styling to automation and security.

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Editor and authoring

Autype supports familiar Markdown syntax with extensions for professional documents. You can also use the visual editor if you prefer clicking over typing — switch between views anytime. What you can write: Headings, paragraphs with rich formatting, ordered and unordered lists, tables, LaTeX math, highlighted code, images, interactive form fields, and more.

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Citations and bibliography

Academic-grade citation management built right into the editor. Add citations with a simple inline syntax and Autype handles the rest.
  • 7 citation styles — APA 7, Harvard, IEEE, Chicago, MLA, Vancouver, ABNT
  • Import your existing bibliography — BibTeX, RIS, EndNote XML, Zotero
  • Automatic bibliography — Only cited sources appear, always in the correct format
  • Cross-references — Reference any heading, figure, or table by anchor. Autype keeps them correct as your document changes.
Broken references and missing citations are highlighted immediately in the editor — no need to export first to find errors.

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Automatic indices

Autype generates and maintains all indices automatically as you write:
  • Table of contents — with configurable depth
  • List of figures — auto-numbered with clickable links
  • List of tables — auto-numbered, same as figures
  • List of abbreviations — define once, reference everywhere
  • Bibliography — generated from your citations
All indices update in real-time. Page numbers are inserted on export.

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Reusable document styles

Define your corporate design once — fonts, colors, heading styles, headers, footers — and apply it across every document in your organization.
  • Global defaults — Set font, size, color, and element styles for the entire document
  • Custom headers and footers — Three-column layout with logos, titles, and page numbers
  • Style presets — Save and share styles across your team. Apply with one click.
  • AI-generated styles — Describe the look you want in plain language, and AI generates the matching style

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Flexible page layouts

Mix portrait and landscape orientations within the same document. Full control over how content flows across pages.
  • Page orientation per section — Switch between portrait and landscape anywhere in the document
  • Page sections — Flow sections, multi-column layouts, and precise positioning
  • Semantic layouts — Independently editable columns with width, background, border, padding, and vertical alignment
  • Fixed canvas — Layered text, image, and shape items for covers, certificates, and title panels
  • Page backgrounds — Color or image backgrounds with fit, focal position, opacity, and per-page margins
  • Page breaks — Insert breaks with optional orientation changes
  • Pagination hints — Keep blocks together, keep with the next element, or start them on a new page

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Embedded visualizations

Create charts and QR codes directly in your document — no external tools needed.
  • Charts — Bar, Line, Pie, Doughnut, Radar, Polar, Scatter, Bubble
  • QR codes — For URLs, WiFi credentials, vCards, and custom data
  • Auto-captioned — Figures are numbered and appear in the list of figures automatically

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Dynamic variables

Insert placeholders anywhere in your document and fill them dynamically — via the UI, API, or bulk import.
  • Text variables — Names, dates, amounts, any text
  • Image variables — Logos, signatures, photos
  • List variables — Dynamic bullet points from data
  • Table variables — Invoice rows, product lists, any tabular data
  • Built-in variables — Page number, total pages, and more
Variables make every document a reusable template. Fill them once in the UI, or fill them thousands of times via API.

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Form fields

Add input controls directly to documents without building a separate form layout. Text, number, multiline, date, checkbox, select, signature, and initials fields can use global styling or local overrides and can also be placed inside table cells.
  • Interactive PDF output — fields become AcroForm widgets
  • Variable binding — prefill controls from document variables
  • Choice groups — single or multiple selection, square or circular controls
  • Consistent styling — outline, underline, borderless, colors, inset, radius, and spacing
Signature and initials controls are form widgets; cryptographic and qualified electronic signing workflows are a separate future capability.

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Reusable blocks and records

  • Reusable blocks keep organization-approved clauses and standard sections centrally maintained. Insert them as linked references or editable copies.
  • Records store customer or case values against a document version, report compatibility when variable definitions change, and keep previous export history available.
  • Import and bulk share one workflow: create persistent records from source data or run a temporary batch without retaining every row.

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Language variants

Generate read-only translations only when you need them. Variants remain linked to the source revision, preserve structure and formatting, and are marked outdated when the original document changes. Preview the translated PDF or export PDF, DOCX, and ODT without creating parallel editable documents.

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Real-time collaboration

Eligible plans can activate collaboration for a document in either Write or Markdown mode. When collaboration is not active, the editor uses direct API autosave instead of routing solo editing through the realtime service.
  • Live cursors — See where everyone is editing
  • Comments — Anchored to Markdown lines or visual blocks, with threaded replies and resolve/reopen workflow
  • Mode safety — One collaboration mode is active for the document at a time

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Version history

Every change to your document is tracked — automatically. Autype creates automatic versions in the background so you always have a safety net, even if you never think about versioning. Need more control? Create named versions at any point — before a major rewrite, after a milestone, or before sending to a client.
  • Automatic versions — created in the background as you work, no action required
  • Manual named versions — create a snapshot with a custom name at any time
  • One-click rollback — restore any previous version instantly
  • Side-by-side diff — compare any version against the current document to see exactly what changed, in Markdown or JSON view
  • Author tracking — every version records who made the change and when
Version history with diff view
Unlike Google Docs (limited history, no named snapshots) or Word (no built-in versioning at all), Autype gives you full version control with named versions, rollback, and diff — built right into the editor. No plugins, no external tools.

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Export formats

Export your documents to the format you need: Before exporting, Autype can check document metadata, language, image descriptions, heading order, and table headers. PDF output profiles include standard PDF, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b, and PDF/UA-1. See Export readiness for limitations and profile behavior.

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Automation and bulk generation

Autype is built for automation from the ground up:
  • Complete document generation — Create entire documents via REST API
  • Records and bulk jobs — retain customer/case data or generate one-off batches from CSV, Excel, or JSON
  • Template variables — Fill templates dynamically via UI, API, or bulk import
  • Webhooks — Get notified when jobs complete
  • No-code integration — Works with n8n, Make, Zapier, and any HTTP-capable platform

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Real-time validation

Autype validates your document as you type — no waiting for a compile or export to discover errors:
  • Broken references — highlighted immediately
  • Undefined abbreviations — flagged as you type
  • Missing citations — caught before export
  • Invalid syntax — instant feedback

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Security and hosting

All data is stored and processed on secured servers within the European Union. Autype is fully GDPR-compliant with encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access control, and audit logs.