To enhance the whiteboard experience, users have the option to upload documents and images to the whiteboard. This feature can be useful for sharing diagrams, charts, or other visual aids.
Notes:
- The currently supported formats include GIF, JPG, PNG, SVG, PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT or PPTX.
- The maximum file size for a single PDF upload is 35MB, while images are limited to 25MB.
- If you do not see the Upload PDFs and Images icon
in the editing tools, please contact an account admin to have this feature enabled.
This article covers:
Prerequisites for uploading documents and images to the whiteboard
How to upload documents and images to the whiteboard
- Sign in to the Zoom desktop client.
- Create or open a whiteboard.
- In the toolbar on the left side of the screen, click the Upload PDFs and Images icon
.
The file dialog will appear. - Select a file or image from your computer.
Learn how to upload files from your Google Drive. - Click Open.
The file or image will appear on the canvas.
Controls when you click on a file
- Download File icon
: Save the file to your device. - Extract Pages icon
: Select specific pages from the file and extract them as a separate document. - Previous
icon and Next icon
: Navigate through the pages of the file. - Lock icon
: Lock files to prevent other users with edit access from accidentally modifying the whiteboard content. - More icon
: Represents additional options.
- Copy: Copy the selected file.
- Copy as image: Copy the selected file as image which can then be shared or pasted into applications that support images.
- Paste: Place the copied file somewhere else on the whiteboard.
- Duplicate: Make an exact copy of the selected file.
- Copy Link to Object: Copy the hyperlink or URL of a selected file which can then be shared or pasted elsewhere.
- Bring Forward: Move the selected file up one layer.
- Bring to Front: Put the selected file on the top layer.
- Send Backward: Move the selected file back one layer.
- Send to back: Put the selected file on the bottom layer.
- Save as Template: Save the selected file as a template.
- Info: Show the creator and last editor of the selected file.
- Lock: Lock file to prevent other users with edit access from accidentally modifying the content.
- Delete: Delete the selected file.
Controls when you click on an image
- Download Image icon
: Save image to your device. - Crop icon
: Select a portion of the image and remove the rest. - Lock icon
: Lock an image to prevent other users with edit access from accidentally modifying the whiteboard content. - More icon
: Represents additional options.
- Copy: Copy the selected image.
- Copy as image: Copy the selected image which can be pasted into applications that support images.
- Paste: Place the copied image somewhere else on the whiteboard.
- Duplicate: Make an exact copy of the selected image.
- Copy Link to Object: Copy the hyperlink or URL of a selected image which can then be shared or pasted elsewhere.
- Bring Forward: Move the selected image up one layer.
- Bring to Front: Put the selected image on the top layer.
- Send Backward: Move the selected image back one layer.
- Send to back: Put the selected image on the bottom layer.
- Save as Template: Save the selected image as a template.
- Info: Show the creator and last editor of the selected image.
- Lock: Lock image to prevent other users with edit access from accidentally modifying the content.
- Delete: Delete the selected image.