Exporting your work
Exporting multiple canvases
A single design can hold many Canvases — the front and back of a business card, a set of social sizes, a run of label SKUs. When it's time to export, you don't have to do them one at a time: the Export dialog lets you export any subset in a single action, and decide whether the result arrives as one document or a bundle of separate files.
Pick your canvases
Whenever a design has more than one canvas, the Export dialog shows a canvas picker
automatically. You'll find it under the Canvases header, with a running
{n} of {total} selected count so you always know how much you're about to export.
- Filter canvases… — type into this box to narrow a long list by name.
- Select all / Select none — bulk-toggle the checkboxes.
- Each row shows the canvas name and its pixel dimensions.
The filter and the bulk buttons compose. Select all and Select none act on the filtered view, so you can filter to "front", select just those, clear the filter, and your choices are still remembered — selection sticks even for canvases scrolled out of view.
Tip: name your canvases before exporting. Zipped files inherit each canvas's name, so tidy names mean tidy output. Rename them in the Canvases list, above the Layers panel.
How each format bundles output
What happens to multiple canvases depends on the Output Format you pick:
| Format | Multiple canvases become… |
|---|---|
| PNG · JPEG · WEBP | One image file per canvas, zipped when more than one is selected |
| SVG | One SVG file per canvas, zipped when more than one is selected |
| PPTX | Always a single deck — one slide per canvas |
| Your choice — see below |
For the raster formats and SVG, selecting several canvases changes the download button to Download {n} files (ZIP). There's nothing to decide: you get one file each, wrapped in a single ZIP. PPTX is always one file regardless of how many canvases you include.
PDF: one document or separate files
PDF is the format where you get to choose. When you pick PDF with two or more canvases selected, a Multiple canvases control appears with two options:
- Single PDF (pages) — one document, one canvas per page.
- Separate files (ZIP) — a separate PDF per canvas, bundled into a ZIP.
This applies whether you're exporting a Print (CMYK) or a Digital (RGB) PDF.
When to use each
Single PDF (pages) is right whenever the deliverable is one document someone opens front to back: a booklet, a front/back proof, a client sign-off, a multi-page brochure. Anyone you send it to sees a single, page-turnable file.
Separate files (ZIP) is right when each canvas is delivered or printed independently — say six different product-label SKUs that each go to press on their own, or a batch of social posts that get uploaded one by one. You still download it in a single click; the ZIP just keeps them separate inside.
Naming, again: files inside a ZIP use each canvas's name, while a merged single PDF gets a generic
design-…filename. If the individual names matter, choose Separate files (ZIP) or rename canvases first.
Not the same as imposition
It's worth drawing one line clearly. Separate files (ZIP) gives you one PDF per canvas. It is not the same as step-and-repeat imposition, which tiles a single canvas many times across one production sheet so a printer can gang-run it. Imposition is a separate feature in the CMYK-PDF export flow — reach for it when you're filling a press sheet with copies of one design, not when you want each canvas as its own file.
Quick recap
- Open the Export dialog from File → Download (or the toolbar download icon).
- In the Canvases picker, filter and check the canvases you want.
- Choose your Output Format.
- For PDF with 2+ canvases, set Multiple canvases to Single PDF (pages) or Separate files (ZIP).
- Download. Everything is built right in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Where to go next
Learn the full dialog top to bottom in The Export dialog, or brush up on adding, duplicating and reordering pages in Working with multiple canvases. Heading to press? See Exporting a print-ready PDF.