Download a drawing as SVG or PDF

You can download a drawing from Vector as an SVG image or as a PDF. Both formats include the whole drawing, cropped to its content with a small margin around the edges.

Download from the editor

1. Open the drawing in Vector.
2. Click File in the toolbar.
3. Point to Download in the menu.
4. Click SVG image (.svg) or PDF (.pdf).

Your browser makes the SVG from the drawing as you see it, so it downloads right away. For a PDF, a progress dialog appears while the file is prepared, and a large drawing can take a moment. The file downloads to your browser's default download folder.

Download from Drive

You don't have to open a drawing to download it as a PDF. In Drive, right-click the drawing (or open its ⋮ menu), point to Download, and choose PDF (.pdf). You get the same file as from the editor. The SVG image is only in the editor's File menu.

SVG image

SVG scales to any size without losing quality, and it opens in web browsers and most other design tools. Choose it when you want to place the drawing at any size or keep working on it in another tool.

Text in the SVG stays text, in the fonts the drawing uses, laid out line for line as on the canvas. Pictures are included as the canvas shows them.

If the drawing has a background color, the SVG includes it. A drawing with a transparent background stays transparent.

To download only part of a drawing, select it, right-click, and choose Download image. That SVG has no background, and a chart on its own gets a white one. See Arrange and align.

Right-to-left text, such as Arabic or Hebrew, can look different in the SVG than on the canvas.

PDF

A PDF is best for printing or for sharing a fixed page that looks the same everywhere. The page is sized to fit the drawing.

If the drawing has a background color, the PDF includes it. A drawing with a transparent background prints on a white page.