- Hey all, it's Aurelius,
hope you're being well. In this video, I'm going to
share with you how you can edit and import your PDF
documents straight into Canva and then you can edit the text,
the images and anything else that was originally on your PDF document. Your PDF documents could be
eBooks, guides, planners, worksheets, or anything else,
as long as it's in PDF format. And this is a somewhat
new feature from Canva which they released not too long ago. So it is in beta form,
however, I have tested it and it does overall a pretty good job. So let's head over to the screen and I'll show you how it works. When you log into your Canva account, you'll land on your homepage,
grab some PDF documents that you wanna test this out with or whatever you wanna edit and format. I've got a couple of samples
here, I've got an eBook that's about 40 pages, I've
got a password protected one which I'll also show you, and I've also got this one from
Google Docs as another demo. Before we continue, there
is this helpfile from Canva explaining what this
importing feature does and what you can expect, so you can import PDFs up to 15 pages. However, I did test this out
with a 40 plus page eBook and it works completely fine. So it seems like they've
really kind of improved on this and they just haven't
updated this helpfile. And it says, if your PDF
has both texts and images, we'll break them up for editing purposes. All right, with that out of the way, let's go and test out one
of these PDF documents, so let's start off with the eBook. The fastest way to import it
is to simply drag your PDF file onto your homepage in Canva and
it'll upload as you can see. While we wait for that to
upload, there is another way to upload your PDF documents. If you go to create a design,
you'll see import PDF. So there's a button there for now, but it is an alternate way
to upload your PDF documents. All right, so it's uploaded, we're going to open the file now. So click it once, and
voilà, it has opened. And you can see the cover
page, we've got the disclaimer, a blank page here with table of contents and the rest of the eBook. But let's take a look at
what the original look compared to the one that's imported. The "Resilience" eBook
was actually published using Microsoft Word, so
I'll open that doc up. Okay, here is the original
of the "Resilience" eBook. If we scroll down, this
is what it looks like, so just take a look at
what this looks like, and now I'm gonna switch
over to the Canva version and here it is. It's not exactly the same, you
can see the text right here the font is a Montserrat while
the original is Arial font. And that's one of the things to note with this PDF import
feature at the moment. It will however try to
match up with the closest font family I guess, Montserrat and Arial, it is quite similar. But overall you can see, at
least it's not all messed up, it still remains on page six right here. And let's take a look
at the original page, we've got another image cover
photo right here, you know? So it's not too drastic
that it's unusable. We can easily just modify this, go in and edit the font that we want. But the great thing now is that we can do things
like add elements. So let's head over to elements
and let's say we wanna insert this right here, the candle, and we can place it anywhere we want and making sure of course
things wrap around it and we can place it wherever we want. So that's the great addition
once you start importing your PDF documents into Canva, you can utilise the
power of Canva as opposed to using something like Word. Now as I mentioned, let's scroll down. It did say a limit of 15 pages, however, I did import this particular eBook which is in total 53 pages,
so no problems there. I know that Canva for a fact
has a limit of a hundred pages, but there are ways around it
which I can share with you in a separate video. I'll link it up right
here if you wanna learn how to import something or
create an eBook or a guide that's over 100 pages. I wanna show you another scenario. We've got a protected PDF document here as you can tell with the icon. If I try to upload this,
you'll see an alert. If I hover over, it says
document couldn't be important because the file is encrypted. But that's one thing to note
and kind of an obvious one because if it is password protected, then it should do its job
of password protecting it and encrypting it. I'll show you another demonstration. We've got a recipe, one page recipe that I just found of using Google Docs. So we've got a Google Docs document, I've basically downloaded
it and now I've imported, there it is, let's click it once. Here's what it looks like. I'll show you the original. Here's the original and the font family
right here is Playfair. And if I have back to Canva
take a look at that heading and just select any of that heading there, you'll see it's Playfair as well as long as it has that font I guess. So its like it does a pretty
darn good job of importing PDF documents and no
matter what PDF document you're trying to import, I'm
sure it'll retain its format, its layout as best as it can. For demo purposes, let's
go ahead and modify this and play around with it a bit. We'll change the photo, deleting
the photo, selecting it, and you'll see this frame
basically that'll retain that layout, that position. So if you add a new photo,
that'll keep it in this box. So let's go ahead and add
a photo, click on more, click on photos and let's
search for strawberry. And let's just choose
this photo right here, it is a Pro Canva photo so
you do need to pay for it, but it's just for demo purposes anyway. I'll drag it to the actual box or frame and that'll retain that
box, that position, I'll just double click and
then I can choose and crop the area that I actually
want or that photo, and there you have it. And once we are done, we can then download as a PDF document once again. So what do you think
about this new feature? Do you see yourself using it to edit your existing PDF documents or doing a range of other things? Let me know in the
comments, I'd love to know. Thanks so much for watching, and if you got value from this tutorial, be sure to give this video a thumbs up and I'll see you in the next training. (upbeat music)
