Exporting Your Design

A design you can't get out of the editor isn't finished. Lega exports every frame as a real, high-fidelity file — PNG, SVG, or PDF — using the same rendering pipeline that draws your canvas, so what you see while editing is exactly what you get in the export. There's no separate "flatten and hope" step.

Export formats

Lega supports three export formats, each suited to a different use case:

• PNG — a rasterized image, ideal for social posts, ads, and anywhere you need a fixed-resolution file that renders identically everywhere. This is the default for most day-to-day exports.
• SVG — a vector file that preserves shapes, text, and paths as scalable, editable markup. Best when the design needs to be resized without quality loss, or handed off to another vector tool.
• PDF — a print-oriented, page-based format. Use this when you're sending a design to a printer or need a document that behaves consistently across devices and print shops. See the Print-Ready Export Checklist before exporting for print — resolution and bleed matter more here than in PNG/SVG exports.

Not every layer type behaves identically across formats. Raster effects and certain procedural decorations render as pixels in SVG exports even though the rest of the frame stays vector — this is expected, not a bug, and doesn't affect PNG or PDF output.

How rendering works under the hood

Lega's editor can display your canvas through one of two renderers — Canvas2D or a legacy SVG fallback — depending on your NEXT_PUBLIC_EDITOR_RENDERER setting. Exports don't inherit that choice. Regardless of which renderer you're viewing the canvas through, every export and thumbnail is generated through the Canvas2D backend, using the same draw calls as the canvas view. That's a deliberate design decision: it means your on-screen view and your exported file can never drift apart, even if you've been editing in the legacy renderer for compatibility reasons. For more on when the renderer choice matters at all, see Canvas vs Legacy Renderer.

Resolution

PNG and PDF exports let you choose a resolution multiplier (for example, 1x, 2x, 3x) relative to your frame's base dimensions. A higher multiplier produces a larger, sharper file — useful for print or high-DPI displays — at the cost of a bigger file size. If you're not sure what resolution a specific output needs (a business card versus an Instagram story versus a banner ad), check the Design Sizes & Dimensions Reference for the dimensions and resolution conventions for common formats before you export.

SVG exports are resolution-independent by nature — the file scales cleanly to any size — so there's no multiplier to set.

Exporting a single frame vs. the whole document

Lega documents can hold multiple frames — think of a whole campaign (an Instagram post, a matching story, a banner) living in one project. When you export, you choose whether to export the active frame or every frame in the document. Exporting per-frame is the common case: each frame typically maps to one deliverable (one ad, one post, one flyer). See Frames & Artboards for how frames are created and arranged, since how you've laid out your frames determines how export batches them.

If you export multiple frames at once, each frame becomes its own file (or its own page, for PDF) — Lega doesn't merge unrelated frames into a single composited image.

Watermark on the free tier

Exports on Lega's free tier include a small watermark, added after rendering so it never touches your working file — only the exported output. Paid tiers remove the watermark from every export format. This applies uniformly across PNG, SVG, and PDF; there's no format that bypasses it on the free tier.

Practical tips

• Match the format to the destination. PNG for social and web, SVG when a downstream tool needs editable vectors, PDF for anything going to a print vendor.
• Export at the resolution the destination actually needs, not the highest available — oversized files slow down uploads to ad platforms and social schedulers without adding visible quality.
• Check your frame's dimensions before exporting, not after. Resizing a frame after the fact can shift layout in ways that are easier to fix before export than to patch in a downstream tool. The Design Sizes & Dimensions Reference has copy-pasteable dimensions for the most common social, print, and web formats.
• For print jobs, don't treat PDF export as "click and done" — printers care about bleed, color mode, and minimum resolution in ways screen formats don't. Run through the Print-Ready Export Checklist first.

Exporting in Lega is meant to be a formality, not a production step — because the AI-generated layout you've been editing is made of real layers the whole way through, there's no final "rebuild it properly for export" pass. What you've built is what ships.