PDFs

Drop a PDF onto a canvas and you get a card showing its first page and how many pages it has. Click it to open a full-screen viewer that scrolls through the whole document and offers a download. Free accounts can upload PDFs up to 50 MB; Creator removes the cap.

A PDF on a board is a real document, not a download link.

The card

Dropping a PDF gives you a card showing the first page as a thumbnail, plus the page count. At a glance you can tell a two-page treatment from a ninety-page script.

The card behaves like any other — move, resize, group, tag, comment, put it in a grid cell.

The viewer

Click the card to open full screen. The viewer scrolls the whole document and renders pages as you reach them, so a long PDF opens immediately rather than after processing every page.

Download is in the viewer, and gives you the original file untouched.

What you cannot do

The PDF is not editable in place. There is no in-document annotation, no form filling, no page reordering.

What you can do instead:

  • Draw on the canvas over the card — see Shapes and drawing
  • Comment on the card — see Comments
  • Put a note beside it with the feedback

Size limit

Free accounts cap PDFs at 50 MB. Creator removes the cap. See Plans.

A script or a treatment is comfortably under that. A print-resolution deck with embedded images often is not.

Making PDFs

Clusters produces PDFs as well as reading them:

Frequently asked questions

Can I annotate a PDF?

Not inside the document. You can draw on the canvas over the PDF card, and attach comments to the card, but the PDF file itself is not edited.

Does the viewer load the whole file at once?

No. Pages render as you reach them, so a long document opens immediately instead of waiting for every page.

Can I turn a PDF into images?

Not automatically. Export the pages you want from your PDF tool and drop them in as images if you need them as separate cards.

Machine-readable: /docs/files/pdf.md · /llms.txt