Canva

Connect Canva and send what you make in Viro to Canva: a slide deck, a report, or an image becomes a design you can edit there. In a chat, Viro can also find your Canva designs, read what they say, and export them as a PDF, an image, or a PowerPoint. Viro looks in Canva only when you ask.

• Send a slide deck, report, or image you made in Viro to Canva as an editable design, when you select Send to Canva
• Find your designs by name, newest first or by what you're looking for
• Read a design's text, pages, and presenter notes, and summarize it
• Export a design as a PDF, PNG, JPG, PowerPoint, or video and give you the download link
• Attach one of your Canva designs to a chat or a Write document, as an image of its first page or as a PDF

Viro can't:

• Edit, comment on, or delete a design that's already in Canva
• Ask Canva to generate a design. Things are made in Viro and sent to Canva
• Use your folders, brand kits, or brand templates
• Look in Canva on its own. Nothing runs on a schedule or in the background

1. 1

   Open Customize > Connectors

   Select Customize in the sidebar, then Connectors.
2. 2

   Open Canva and select Connect to Viro

   Sign in to Canva and select Allow. Canva asks for four permissions: the name on your profile, finding your designs, reading and exporting them, and adding a design when you send one.
3. 3

   Check that it's connected

   Back in Viro, Canva is listed under Yours.

Once it's connected, just ask in any chat. For example:

• "Make a 5-slide deck about houseplant care."
• "Find my resume design in Canva."
• "Summarize my Q3 pitch deck in Canva, including the presenter notes."
• "Export my latest Canva poster as a PDF."

Make it in Viro first. On a slide deck's card in chat, open the ⋯ menu and select Send to Canva. Under an image Viro made, select Send to Canva next to Download. A Notebook report has the same option in its download menu. When Canva has it, the message changes to Sent to Canva with an Open in Canva link, and the design is yours to edit there. If Canva is still importing it, it appears in your designs shortly.

Nothing is sent until you select the button. The Canva connection is allowed to add designs to your account, and that is the only time Viro uses it.

In the composer, select +, then Canva. Pick a design, or search for it by name, then choose Add image for its first page or Add PDF for every page. It's attached like any upload, so you can ask about it, quote it, or use it as a source in Write. Designs over 15 MB are too large to attach; try Add image instead.

This isn't offered in Design Studio. Canva's terms don't allow its designs to be brought into another design tool, so Viro keeps the two apart.

• PDF, for a whole design
• PNG or JPG, one image per page
• PowerPoint, for presentations
• MP4, for designs with video or animation

The link Viro gives you comes from Canva and expires after a while, so download the file soon after asking.

The designs in the Canva account you connected: the ones you own and the ones shared with you. Viro can't see anyone else's. If you use more than one Canva account, disconnect and connect again with the other one.

Canva limits how often an app can ask it for things. If you see Canva is busy right now, wait a minute and try again. If a send fails because Canva couldn't read the file, make the deck or image again and send that one.

No. Viro works with Canva through Canva's own developer platform. It isn't made or endorsed by Canva, and Canva's terms still apply to everything in your Canva account.

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