# The LinkedIn PDF

> LinkedIn reads carousels as documents. joli.studio knows that and hands you a PDF, one page per slide, with nothing to configure.

Updated 2026-09-26

On LinkedIn, a carousel is not a series of images: it is a **document**. You don’t upload it through “Photo” but through “Add a document”, and the expected format is a PDF. joli.studio has that rule built in: for a LinkedIn carousel, the recommended delivery is a PDF, and it is what the **Publish** button hands you.

## What triggers the PDF

Two conditions, both true or neither:

1. the post’s platform is **LinkedIn**;
2. the post has **more than one slide**.

A single-image LinkedIn post exports like anywhere else, as an image archive. A LinkedIn carousel, on the other hand, shows **PDF LinkedIn** at the top of the **Export** section, in the **Publish** button’s menu, summarized as “PDF document, one page per slide”. The `Ctrl+E` shortcut produces it directly.

## What the file contains

One page per slide, at exactly the dimensions of the chosen aspect ratio — 1080 × 1350 at 4:5, the recommended ratio on LinkedIn. Orientation follows the shape: portrait when the slide is taller than it is wide, landscape otherwise. The document carries the post title, with joli.studio as its creator. Up to 20 pages, LinkedIn’s limit for a carousel.

> **The PDF with its caption**
>
> Right below, **PDF, caption and instructions (.zip)** gives an archive holding the PDF, `caption.txt`, a `README.txt` and, for an agent publishing on your behalf, `manifest.json` and `AGENTS.md` — handy too for archiving, or for handing the post over to someone else.

## Publishing afterwards

The simplest way is the **Publish** button: for a LinkedIn carousel, the window swaps the images step for **The document**, the PDF to download with its title to copy right below, then hands you the caption and the first-comment link, one text at a time. From your phone, the page offers “Save the PDF”. The whole flow is in [publish a post](/en/guide/publish-a-post/).

Without the window, the instructions are written into the archive’s `README.txt`, and they fit in three lines:

1. New post → Add a document → choose the PDF.
2. Give the document a title, paste `caption.txt`, publish.
3. Put any link in the first comment.

> **LinkedIn asks for a document title**
>
> That title appears above the carousel in the feed: it is often the first thing anyone reads. The publish window and the archive suggest the post title (in `manifest.json`, it is the one an agent will enter): check it, or reuse the first line of your caption.

## Forcing a PDF elsewhere

On another platform, as soon as the post has more than one slide, **Other formats** offers **PDF (one page per slide)**. That is useful for a review, an attachment or a printout — but to publish, keep the images: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads and Pinterest don’t read PDFs.

The PDF is built inside your browser, from the slides as they render on screen. Nothing is sent to a server for it.

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Source: https://joli.studio/en/guide/the-linkedin-pdf/