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LinkedIn carousel builder

Pick your images, put them in order, and download one PDF to upload to LinkedIn as a document post. The images never leave your browser.

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    About this tool

    What does this tool make?

    One PDF whose pages are your images, in the order you arrange them. LinkedIn calls the result a document post; everyone else calls it a carousel. Upload the PDF through the document option in LinkedIn's composer and it becomes a swipeable deck in the feed.

    Why a PDF, and not a carousel for X/Twitter?

    X has no document post type — its composer takes up to four images per post, or a thread of images. A PDF gets you a downloadable file there and nothing else, so this tool is for LinkedIn only.

    Where do my images go?

    Nowhere. They are decoded, re-encoded and assembled into a PDF inside your browser. No image, or anything derived from one, is ever sent to a server.

    What do you store?

    Only your settings — page shape, fit, background colour and document title — saved in your browser's localStorage under the key oslikas-lcb-settings. Your images are never stored, and a reload forgets them.

    Is my image quality reduced?

    Yes, deliberately. Each slide is drawn to at most 1080 pixels wide and saved as a JPEG, which keeps a twenty-page deck around a few megabytes instead of tens. That re-encode also drops all EXIF metadata, including the GPS location some cameras record.

    Why is my photo cropped, or why does it have bars?

    Your images are rarely the same shape as the page. Fill covers the page and crops the overflow, which is what looks best in the feed. Fit shows the whole image and pads the rest with the background colour. Either way the crop is taken from the centre.

    What are LinkedIn's limits?

    A document post holds between 2 and 300 pages and at most 100 MB. LinkedIn recommends 1080×1350 (4:5) or 1080×1080 (1:1); pages of any other shape get cropped or padded by LinkedIn itself, which is what this tool exists to avoid.

    Why won't it read my HEIC file?

    Safari decodes HEIC and Chrome and Firefox do not, so it depends on your browser. Picking photos from an iPhone usually converts them to JPEG automatically; otherwise export them as JPEG first. The unreadable file is listed with a reason and the rest of the deck still builds.