Creating Your Pitch

Downloading and printing your Idea Canvas

1 min. read Updated March 23, 2026

Once you’ve built out your Idea Canvas, you can export it as a PDF or share it via a public Web Link.

Summary: Exporting Idea Canvas to PDF

Click the publishing menu in the top right of the navigation bar.

Select your options, including whether to include status badges and your confidence score, and download a PDF of your canvas.

Idea Canvas - Export to PDF workflow

Step-by-step guide: Exporting Idea Canvas to PDF

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In the publishing menu in the top right of the navigation bar, click Download & Print to display the PDF export menu.

Idea Canvas - Export Download & Print
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In the PDF export menu, you can select your page size.

Idea Canvas - Export to PDF Page size
3. 

You can also select if you want to display assumption status badges in your PDF.

Idea Canvas - Export to PDF Status badges
4. 

Click Download & Print to export your Idea Canvas to PDF.

Idea Canvas - Export to PDF Download and Print

This produces an easily attachable PDF file for sharing your Idea Canvas.

Idea Canvas - Export to PDF preview

Formatting Idea Canvas Exports

If you want to change the presentation of your Idea Canvas, you have a couple options:

  • Display Settings lets you filter displayed assumptions by evidence level.

  • Select Theme lets you choose your font or color theme.

Idea Canvas - Themes and download

Display Settings

Display Settings lets you filter displayed assumptions by evidence level.

Why is this important?

  • This lets you curate which Sections of the Idea Canvas are shared so you only share what is prepared while you continue to iterate on less developed ideas.

Idea Canvas - Display Settings

Select Theme

Select Theme lets you choose from one of 9 professional fonts.

Note: Any selected font will be immediately reflected in your Idea Canvas.

Idea Canvas - Themes fonts

Select Theme also lets you choose from one of 15 color themes.

Note: Any selected color theme will be immediately reflected in your Idea Canvas.

Idea Canvas - Themes colors

For Chrome users:

In the upper right corner of the display, click the Download icon:

Image: Download PDF in Google Chrome

The file will be saved to your computer's Downloads folder.

For Firefox users:

In the upper right corner of the display, click the Download icon:

Image: Download PDF in Firefox

The file will be saved to your computer's Downloads folder.

For Safari users:

In the File menu, click Export as PDF.

Image: Download PDF in Safari

 

The file will be saved to your computer's Downloads folder.

For Microsoft Edge users:

Click the Save icon in the document toolbar, shown in the screenshot below:

Image: edge_download

Note: If you are using an iPad or other mobile device, you may not be able to download a PDF directly to it. Instead, use a desktop or laptop to download your Idea Canvas.

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