TL;DR
When you import a Miro board into Klaxoon, you keep the overall layout and main visuals (shapes, lines, images, sticky notes, colors, text size).
However, some things change or are lost:
- Frames become sequential pages; background is always white.
- Fonts, emojis, text backgrounds, and connectors may look different.
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Participants, comments, talktracks, and authors are not imported.
Overview
When you import a Miro board into a Klaxoon Board, most of your visual content is retained. This article walks you through what stays the same, what looks different, and what doesn’t migrate so you know exactly what to expect.
Before and After
When you import from Miro, your overall layout is preserved, but some objects change type or appearance.
Before the import:
After the import:
What Is Retained
Main visual content
| Element | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Graphic elements | Shapes, lines, arrows, and other visual objects | Keep their relative position and size |
| Notes and sticky notes | Sticky notes | Imported as image objects; text is visually preserved |
| Images and screenshots | Images and screenshots | Imported as separate image objects |
Spatial organization
| Element | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Layout of elements | Overall board layout | Preserved; objects are placed similarly on the Board |
| Frames | Frames used to organize content | Imported as separate areas, often as large groups of images on the Board |
What May Be Different or Absent
General board appearance and organization
| Aspect | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Board name | PDF name (default Miro board name) | Board name = selected PDF file name (without the .pdf extension) |
| Background color | Default white; content can use custom backgrounds | Default white; Board doesn’t infer the original Miro background color |
| Frames / pages organization | Frames can be arranged in a complex spatial layout | Pages (from frames) are added sequentially; PDF page order may not match layout |
Migration performance
| Aspect | In Miro to Klaxoon |
| Advantage | You get a global view of the migrated Board |
| Disadvantage | Board loading time can be longer, depending on content volume |
Collaboration and Context Elements
These collaboration details are not included in the imported PDF, so they don’t appear in Klaxoon:
| Element | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Participants | Information about board participants | Not imported |
| Talktrack | Voice recordings | Not imported |
| Comments | Text comments on elements | Not imported |
Text
| Aspect | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Text font | Permanent Marker and other fonts | Uses Roboto Slab; if Miro font is uncommon, falls back to a generic Sans Serif font |
| Text size | Variable text sizes | Text size is preserved |
| Text style | Bold, italic (handled by the browser) | Bold/italic may be limited if the font doesn’t support those styles |
| Emojis | Emojis inside text objects | Emojis can fall outside the text object or split content into multiple text objects |
| Text background color | Background color for text areas | Not migrated (Board doesn’t support text background color) |
Drawings
| Aspect | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Object type | Brush (freehand drawing) | Converted into a shape |
| Color/thickness | Variable color and thickness | Color and thickness preserved for the resulting shape |
Ideas (sticky notes)
| Aspect | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Shape | Square or rectangle | Square or rectangle, adjusted from the original Miro format |
| Color | Extended color palette | Converted to the Board color palette (up to 24 colors) |
| Tags / categories | Tags on ideas | Converted into shapes; no categories are created |
| Emoji / reactions | Reaction emojis on ideas | Appear as images on the idea |
| Font / size / style | Variable font, size, and style | Migrated, with potential limits for bold/italic |
| Text alignment | Variable alignment | Centered for now |
| Idea author | Author information | Not migrated |
| Hyperlinks | Links in the idea text | Text and hyperlink are retrieved and used to create the Board idea (if the URL is written in full) |
| Idea size | Freely adjustable | Adjusted to the idea format; not customizable after import |
| Text content | Free text | All text in the idea is migrated |
| Square idea | Square sticky note | Square idea rendered identically |
| Rectangular idea | Rectangular sticky note | Height may change; rectangles can become taller depending on idea width |
Images and icons
| Aspect | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Size/position | Variable size and position | Size and position preserved |
| Rotation | Rotation available | No direct rotation; you can only rotate through cropping |
| Crop | Square and round crops | Square crop only |
Shapes
| Aspect | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Outline, fill, opacity | Customizable | Preserved |
| Text in shape | Text can be added in the shape | Text becomes a separate text object, not embedded in the shape |
Connectors and Other Objects
Connectors
| Aspect | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Object type | Connectors with dedicated properties | Treated as shapes |
| Outline / color | Customizable | Preserved |
| Style | Solid or dotted | Dotted styles converted to solid shapes |
| Text on connector | Text attached directly to connector | Text becomes a separate text object, not attached to the connector |
Other elements
| Element | In Miro | In Klaxoon Board |
| Sticky Stack | Stack of sticky notes | No direct equivalent; converted into shapes and images |
| Highlighter | Highlighter tool | Migrated, but positioning may not be fully adjusted |
| Z-index | Layering / stacking order of objects | Layer order may not always match; check that important objects are not hidden behind others |
| Unrecognized objects | Objects not covered above | May not convert as expected; review and adjust manually |