Exporting and sharing designs in Polimake Desktop

When a design is ready, you can get it out in three ways: export it as a file, prepare the text it's posted with, or share it with the cloud so your team can see it in Studio.

Export a design

1. Open the design on the canvas.
2. Open the canvas menu at the top left.
3. Under Export, choose the format:
   • PNG · current page: the page you're looking at.
   • PNG · all pages: one PNG per page.
   • SVG · current page: the page as a vector, with images and typefaces inside the file.
   • PDF · all pages: a single PDF with the whole design.

While it's being prepared you'll see Exporting…. If something fails, the menu shows Export · failed for a few seconds; try again.

What ends up in the file

• Each file is named after its page. The PDF takes the name of the first page.
• The PNG comes out at the page's exact size: a 1080 × 1920 page gives a 1080 × 1920 PNG.
• Only what's inside the pages is exported. If there are loose elements, the canvas warns you; use Put in this page or Turn into pages before exporting.

Prepare the post

For designs in a project on your computer, the side panel has a Post view:

1. Click AI in the editor bar and choose Post.
2. Write the Caption: what gets posted with the piece.
3. Add Hashtags: type one and press Enter.
4. Fill in the Alt text, one per page if the design has several.
5. Click Save, or Discard changes to go back to what you had.

Copy caption and hashtags gives you the text ready to paste into the network, and Copy alt text gives you each page's alt text.

The panel warns you if the caption is over 2,200 characters (Instagram cuts it), if an alt text is over 1,000 or if the text includes a price. If the piece is shared, the caption and hashtags also go to its post in the cloud; the alt text stays on your computer.

Share with the cloud

Sharing uploads the design to the cloud and keeps it up to date with what you change, here or there. You need to be signed in.

1. In the editor, click Share in the top bar.
2. Confirm in Share this design? with Share.

If the project isn't in the cloud yet, the same dialog asks you to choose where to share it.

Once it's shared, the button changes to Shared and takes you to the cloud.

The This piece view

In the side panel, This piece tells you where the design is:

• Name and Project.
• On this computer: the design's folder on your disk.
• In the cloud: whether it's shared and in which project, or Not shared: it doesn't leave this computer.

From there you can Open in the cloud. If a photo in the design doesn't show in the cloud, Repair appears to fix it.

Frequently asked questions

Can I export as JPG or video?

No. From the canvas you export as PNG, SVG or PDF.

Why is something missing from the PNG?

Because it was outside the pages. Put it on a page with Put in this page and export again.

If I share a design, does it update on its own?

Yes. From the moment you share it, it stays up to date with what you change on your computer or in the cloud.

Does the alt text go up to the cloud?

Not yet. The caption and hashtags go to the cloud post; the alt text is saved with the piece on your computer.