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Save a document, deck, diagram, design or artwork as a PDF to share or print, and make a print-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks from PlexiDesign.

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A PDF looks the same on every computer, which makes it the safest way to send a finished file or to print it. Five of the six PlexiiOffice apps save PDFs. To print, save a PDF and print it from your computer's PDF viewer.

Before you start

Save a PDF

Open the file, then:

App Where
PlexiDocs File > Download > PDF document (.pdf), or File > Print (PDF). Also in the toolbar's folder button, Export PDF.
PlexiSlides File > Download > PDF document (.pdf).
PlexiDiagrams Export in the diagram's toolbar, then PDF.
PlexiDesign File > Download > PDF document (.pdf), or Export in the toolbar, then PDF.
PlexiDraw File > Export PDF…

Choose where to save the file. It is named after your file to start with. Click Save.

After a document's PDF is saved, a line above the page shows where it went.

What goes into the PDF

  • Documents use the document's own paper size (A4 or Letter), orientation and margins, so set those before you export. See Page view, margins, headers and footers.
  • Decks come out one slide to a page, in landscape.
  • Designs with more than one page come out as a multi-page PDF, one design page to each PDF page.

PlexiDocs' File > Print (PDF) saves a PDF laid out for print.

  1. Choose File > Print (PDF).
  2. Save the PDF.
  3. Open it in your computer's PDF viewer and print it from there.

Send a design to a print shop

PlexiDesign can make a print-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks:

  1. In PlexiDesign, click Export in the toolbar.
  2. Set Bleed (px): how far the background should extend past the edge of the page.
  3. Click Print PDF (crop marks).

You can also choose Tools > Print PDF (bleed + crop marks). See Export and print a design.

Common questions

My PDF uses different fonts from the screen. A document's PDF uses a standard print typeface for text that is not given a font of its own. To control the look exactly, export to Word and make the PDF from your word processor.

Can I export a spreadsheet as a PDF? Export it as .xlsx and save a PDF from your spreadsheet program. To show figures in a PDF, you can also copy them into a document as a table.

Where did the PDF go? Where you chose in the save window. For documents, the line above the page shows the full path.

Still need help? Contact support at [email protected].