LinkedIn PDF Carousel Maker

A carousel is an argument with a swipe between each step

The format rewards exactly one thing: making someone want the next slide. That gives each position a job. Slide one is a hook, not a title — a number, a tension, a claim that demands resolution. Middle slides carry one idea each, stated in the first line; the swipe is your paragraph break. The last slide spends the attention you've earned on a single ask. The auto-split gets your text into roughly slide-sized pieces, and the --- marker pins the slides that must stand alone — then the real work is editing each slide down to its strongest sentence, which is why every slide here stays editable. New to the format? Our guide to making a LinkedIn carousel covers the document-post mechanic, the cover, and the right size.

How to make a LinkedIn carousel — and actually post it

The making is the easy half. The part people get stuck on is that LinkedIn has no native carousel — what everyone calls one is a PDF document post. Here’s the whole path, draft to feed.

1. 1

   Draft long, then split

   Paste the full piece into the draft box and hit Split into slides. Drop a line containing only --- wherever a slide has to stand on its own — your hook and your closing ask.

2. 2

   Write the cover

   The cover earns the open: make the title a hook — a number, a tension, a claim that demands resolving — and the description the payoff it promises. It's a separate card, not slide one's text.

3. 3

   Cut each slide to one idea

   The swipe is your paragraph break, so keep one thought per slide. If a slide needs a second sentence to make sense, it's two slides. Watch the character count and trim anything past the comfortable line.

4. 4

   Pick a shape and export

   Choose square (1080×1080) to be safe on every device, or 4:5 portrait (1080×1350) for more height on mobile, then download. The PDF is built in your browser — your text and any photos never leave the device.

5. 5

   Post it as a document

   In the LinkedIn composer, start a post and choose the document option — the one for adding a document, not a photo or video — upload the PDF, and give it a title. That title sits above the carousel in feed, so make it pull people in.

LinkedIn carousel size and specs

A carousel is a PDF document post, so the “specs” are really PDF specs. The numbers worth keeping:

Dimensions

1080×1080 square is the safe default — fully visible on every device. 1080×1350 (4:5 portrait) buys more vertical space on mobile at the cost of a slightly cramped desktop render. This maker exports either; keep every page the same size so the deck doesn’t jump as people swipe.

Slide count

Five to ten does the job. LinkedIn’s documented limit is far higher — up to 300 pages — but completion collapses past a dozen, and a carousel nobody finishes teaches the feed to stop showing it.

File size and format

A standard PDF, comfortably under LinkedIn’s 100 MB document ceiling — the in-browser build downscales any photos you add, so size is rarely a concern.

Type and color

Helvetica and a fixed theme palette, picked so the PDF renders identically everywhere and stays light. For full brand type, draft and sequence here, then rebuild the final art in your brand kit — the hard part is the argument, not the font.

Where carousels fit in a repurposing week

Carousels are the highest-leverage cut of a substantial core asset: a case study's numbers, a process guide's steps, an argument's beats — anything with three to five separable points maps onto slides almost mechanically. The same slide sequence then doubles as the skeleton for an X thread (our thread splitter uses the same splitting engine) and an Instagram carousel designed as images. The full one-core-many-cuts system is in our repurposing workflow guide; schedule the cuts in the content calendar so they actually ship.

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