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TemplatesUpdated 2026-07-21

Importing designs (PDF, Canva, Slides)

Bring designs you already have — PDFs, images, or exports from Canva, Google Slides, and PowerPoint — straight onto your screens.


If your team already designs in Canva, Google Slides, PowerPoint, or a print shop's PDFs, you don't have to rebuild anything. Import the file and it becomes a template or a playlist.

What you can import

  • PDF — every page becomes a slide. This is the universal path.
  • Images — PNG or JPG, one image per screen.
  • Canva, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Keynote — use each tool's Download / Export as PDF (or PNG), then import that file. You keep every font and effect exactly as designed.

How to import

  1. Open Templates and click Import design (it's right in the header).
  2. Drop your file in — you'll see a preview of every page.
  3. Choose Create as Template (a single board you'll edit and reuse) or Create as Playlist (pages rotate in order — ideal for multi-page decks).
  4. Confirm. You land exactly where your new template or playlist lives, ready to schedule.

Tips for great results

  • Export at high resolution — 4K exports stay crisp on big displays.
  • Match your screen's shape: 16:9 landscape for TVs, 9:16 for portrait displays.
  • For a rotating deck, set per-slide durations after import in Playlists.
  • Imported pages are images, so text inside them isn't individually editable — for boards you'll update weekly (menus, schedules), build a native template instead and let the widgets do the updating.

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