Export an image or PDF

Save a high-resolution picture of a Felt map for slides, reports, or print, with an optional legend and scale bar.

Use Export as image to download your map, or any part of it, as a PNG, JPG, or PDF file for slides, reports, or print.

Export the map as an image

1. Open the Felt menu, under the Felt logo at the top left, and click File > Export as image…, or press Shift+Cmd+E (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+E (Windows). The Export as image dialog opens with a preview of your current view.

2. Drag inside the preview to frame the area. Hover over the preview to reveal Zoom in and Zoom out.

3. Optional: In Format, select PNG, JPG, or PDF. PNG is the default.

4. Optional: Turn Legend or Scale bar on or off. Both are on by default.

5. Click Export. The file is named after the map and downloads to your browser's downloads folder.

Keep the tab visible until the download starts, or the export stops.

People who open a public link without being invited can't export.

Export a specific area or aspect ratio

• To frame an area, such as one country, drag and zoom inside the Export as image preview. If the map is rotated, click Point north to reset it.

• To set the image's shape, change Width and Height. For example, use 1920 × 1080 px for a 16:9 slide. Each dimension can be 96–9,600 px.

The image shows the layers and annotations visible on the map. To leave one out, hide it in the legend first. Felt's panels and toolbar never appear in the file.

Export a sharp, high-resolution image

To get a sharper image, raise Resolution in the Export as image dialog to 3× or 4×. The default is 2×. A 1,000 px wide image exported at 4× is 4,000 px wide, with points, lines, and labels at their on-screen size.

Increasing Width and Height doesn't make the image sharper. A larger canvas shows more of the map, but points, lines, and labels keep their pixel size, so they look small.

Blank or white areas in an export mean some tiles didn't finish loading at the export resolution. Felt leaves those tiles out and shows Some map tiles may not have finished loading. Try again, or lower Resolution to load fewer tiles.

Choose PNG, JPG, or PDF

In Export as image, Format sets the file type:

Format	Use for
PNG	Lossless quality (the default)
JPG	A smaller file, with a Quality slider
PDF	The same image inside a PDF file

A PDF export is a raster image, so its lines and labels can't be edited in Adobe Illustrator. Felt doesn't export SVG. For editable geometry, export the layer data.

A PNG can't have a transparent background. To leave out the basemap, choose a solid color basemap first. See Basemaps.

Felt doesn't export video, GIF, or PowerPoint files. Export a PNG or JPG and insert it into your slide or document.

Include a legend and scale bar

In Export as image, Legend and Scale bar are on by default.

• Legend: the setting appears only when the map has a legend. Drag the card in the preview to move it. If its contents are cut off, drag its edges to make it larger. Use Map title, Description, and Components to choose what it shows.

• Scale bar: stays in the bottom-left corner. To switch between miles and kilometers, open the Felt menu and click View > Units > US or Metric.

Every export includes a small Felt logo and the map's data attribution, and neither can be turned off. You can use exported maps and images in print and commercial materials. Export as image can't add a north arrow, a title block, or your own logo, and it can't move the scale bar. For any of these, use a print layout.

Troubleshooting exports

"Export failed"

Felt couldn't finish drawing the image. Lower Resolution, or Width and Height, and try again. On an iPhone or iPad, the dialog warns This device caps canvases at … px per side, so this export may fail when the image is larger than the device can draw.

"This browser is too old to export print pages"

Your browser is missing features Felt needs to export. Update it to its latest version. See System requirements.