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How to post a carousel on LinkedIn (it has to be a PDF)
A LinkedIn carousel is a document post. Upload the slides as a PDF and LinkedIn shows them as a swipeable deck. Upload them as separate images and you get an ordinary multi-image post — a grid, with no swipe.
This trips people up because every other platform wants images. LinkedIn does accept up to 9 images in a post, but that produces a collage-style layout, not the page-by-page deck that people mean when they say "LinkedIn carousel". The deck comes from the document viewer, and the document viewer wants a PDF.
- Design the carousel Build it in Framescrll the same way as an Instagram carousel: set the slide count in the Canvas strip, set Frame size to Instagram Feed — 4:5 (portrait, the most common LinkedIn carousel shape) or Instagram Square — 1:1, then add photos, text and decoration. Because the design is one continuous canvas, a background or banner can run across pages and still line up as readers swipe. The export screen's platform strip marks LinkedIn with use the PDF as a reminder.
- Export as one PDF Press Export and choose Download as one PDF — for LinkedIn carousels (in the mobile app it's Share as one PDF). Each slide becomes one page at full 1080-px resolution (a 7.2-inch-wide page at 150 DPI, so it also prints sensibly). The same file works for a SlideShare-style upload anywhere else that takes PDFs.
- Post it as a document on LinkedIn In LinkedIn, Start a post, open the attachment options and choose Add a document. Upload the PDF, give it a title (this shows above the deck), write your post text, and publish. LinkedIn renders each page as a slide with arrows and a page counter — that's the carousel.
Tips
- Keep the first page strong. The document preview shows page one in the feed; the rest only appear after a click or swipe.
- Each page is a full 1080-px-wide JPEG. The PDF embeds the slides as high-quality JPEG pages, so what you see in the editor is what LinkedIn shows — but very small text will still be small on a phone, so keep captions generous.
- Nine is the image limit, not the page limit. The 9-image cap applies to image posts. A PDF document can carry more pages than that.
- The same design can go to Instagram. Export the ZIP of images for Instagram and the PDF for LinkedIn from the same canvas — see the size guide for what each platform allows.