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How does a Miro board appear in Klaxoon?

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Written by Klaxoon.
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You've just imported your Miro board into Klaxoon and you're wondering whether it's been transformed. Don't worry, this article is here to show you clearly how your Miro board appears in Klaxoon.

This feature is currently available as a private Beta.

Before and after

Here's what the objects between Miro imported into Klaxoon will look like:

example of a Miro board

example of the same Miro board imported into Klaxoon

Differences between Miro and Klaxoon

1. What is retained

Main visual content:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Graphic elements

Shapes, lines, arrows, and other visual elements

Retain their relative position and size

Notes and sticky notes

Sticky notes

Imported as image objects. The text inside is visually preserved

Images and screenshots

Images and screenshots

Imported as separate image objects

Spatial organization:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Layout of elements

General layout of elements on the board

Preserved. Objects are placed similarly on the Klaxoon Board

Miro Frames

Frames used to organize content

Generally imported as a separate area on the Klaxoon Board, often as a large group of images

2. What may be different or absent

General Appearance and Board Organization:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Board Name

PDF name (default Miro board name)

The Board is created with the name of the selected PDF file (without the .PDF extension)

Background color

Default white (the PDF content may have custom background colors)

Default white (Klaxoon cannot reliably infer the Miro background color)

Organization of Frames / Pages

Pages (from frames) can have a complex spatial layout

Pages (from frames) will be added sequentially to the Board. The order of pages in the PDF will not necessarily reflect the original layout of the Miro Board

Advantages and Disadvantages of migration:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Miro to Klaxoon

Advantage: Global view of the migrated Board

Disadvantage: Potentially longer Board loading time (depending on the content)

Collaboration and Context Elements:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Participants

Information about the participants on the board

Not contained in the imported PDF

Talktrack

Potential voice recordings

Not contained in the imported PDF

Comments

Textual comments on the elements

Not contained in the imported PDF

Text:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Text font

Permanent Marker and other fonts

Roboto Slab (if the Miro font is not common, fallback to "Sans Serif")

Text size

Variable text sizes

Text size is preserved

Text style

Bold, italic (can be extrapolated by the browser)

Management of bold or italic may be limited if the font does not natively support it

Emojis

Emojis can be integrated into text objects

Emojis may fall outside text objects or split the text into multiple objects

Text background color

Background color of text areas

Not migrated (feature not available in Board)

Drawing:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Object type

Brush (freehand drawing)

Shape (the drawing is converted into a shape)

Color and thickness

Variable color and thickness

Color and thickness are preserved for the shape

Idea (Sticky note):

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Shape

Square, rectangle

Square or rectangle (adjusted according to the Miro idea format)

Color

Extended color palette

Conversion to a Klaxoon color palette (maximum 24 colors)

Tag(s) / Category

Possibility to add tags to ideas

Transformed into a shape (no category creation)

Emoji / Reaction

Reaction emojis on ideas

Will be an image on the idea

Text font, size, and style

Variable font, size, and style

Font, size, and style of the text are migrated (potential limitations for bold/italic)

Text alignment

Variable alignment

Centered for now

Idea author

Indication of the author

Not migrated

Hyperlink

Possibility to add hyperlinks in the text

The text and the hyperlink are retrieved to create the Board idea (if written out in full)

Idea size

Freely adjustable

Adjusted according to the format of the idea (not customizable)

Text content

Free text

All text contained in the idea is migrated

Rendering of the square idea

Square idea

Identical square idea

Rendering of the rectangular idea

Rectangular idea

Based on the width of the ideas, a rectangle idea may be taller in Board

Image / Icon:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Size and position

Variable size and position

Size and position are preserved

Rotation

Rotation possible

No direct rotation (rotation on a crop)

Crop

Square and round crop

Square crop

Shape:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Outline thickness and color, fill color, opacity

Customizable

Preserved

Text in the shape

Possibility to add text directly into the shape

The text is not added to the shape (will be a separate text object)

Connectors:

Category

Miro

Klaxoon

Object type

Connectors with specific properties

Connector treated as a shape

Outline thickness, color, opacity

Customizable

Preserved

Style

Solid, dotted

Dotted style converted to a solid shape

Text on the connector

Possibility to add text on the connector

The text is not added to the connector (will be a separate text object)

Sticky Stack

Stack of sticky notes

No equivalent object (creation of shapes and images)

Highlighter

Highlighter tool

Migrated with non-adjusted positioning

Z-index (Layering)

Management of the stacking order of objects

Attention to z-index management which may not always work (verify that non-converted objects are not hidden)

Other unrecognized objects:

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If you'd like to find out more about the power of Board, check out the articles at this link.

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