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How to Save Your LinkedIn Profile as a PDF
LinkedIn has a button, in the introduction section of a profile, that saves the profile as a PDF. Its Help page describes the route for a computer and says the button is not available on its mobile app. This guide is our reading of that page and its limits, with Chrome steps of our own for when the button is no use.
Yago is not affiliated with LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a trademark of its owner, used here only to name the service. What this page says LinkedIn does is our reading of its Help Center, linked under Sources and checked on 31 October 2026. Short quotations in quotation marks are LinkedIn's words, except the Chrome button names in our own steps. LinkedIn can change its pages and menus: if a step does not match what you see, trust LinkedIn's page. What we label as our view, our steps or our advice is ours, and our advice is general advice, not research.
On a computer, with LinkedIn's own button
You can save your own profile or the profile of another member. For someone else's, open their profile first.
On a computer: start at the Me icon, at the top of LinkedIn's home page, then choose your Profile card; in the introduction section, use the More or Resources button and pick Save to PDF.
What the button does not cover
When we checked it on 31 October 2026, the Help page limited the button in these ways. It is not available on its mobile app. It allows 200 PDF downloads a month, counting your profile and anyone else's together. It “may not be accessible to all members”, so you might not see it. And it needs English: the profile has to be in English, and so does the member's language setting, only English characters are supported, and another language risks mismatched translations and a badly drawn PDF.
Our steps, if you cannot use that button
These are not LinkedIn's steps. They are the steps Yago's LinkedIn evaluator shows, for a profile saved from Chrome on a computer. Menus change, so look at what Chrome shows you.
- Open your LinkedIn profile in Chrome and scroll all the way to the bottom, so every section loads.
- Click the three dots (⋮) in the top right of Chrome, then choose Print.
- Change the Destination to “Save as PDF”.
- Open “More settings” and tick “Background graphics”, so your photo and banner show up.
- Click Save.
What to do with the PDF
Open it and read it as a stranger would, from the top. Whatever the PDF shows first is what you are putting first.
Yago's LinkedIn evaluator reads a PDF of your profile made with the Chrome steps above and suggests what to change. We have not checked the file made by LinkedIn's own Save to PDF option against it. It is part of Pro, which is €19 a month.
Frequently asked questions
Can I save my LinkedIn profile as a PDF on my phone?
Not with this button, according to LinkedIn: its Help page says the button is not available on its mobile app, and it describes the route for a computer. If the button does not work for you there, the Chrome steps above are another way.
Is there a limit on how many times I can do it?
Yes: 200 PDF downloads a month, counting your profile and anyone else's together.
Does it work if my profile is in another language?
According to the Help page it needs English: the profile has to be in English, and so does the member's language setting, and only English characters are supported. With another language it warns of mismatched translations and a badly drawn PDF.
Is the PDF the same as my resume?
LinkedIn presents the file as a PDF resume made from your profile. Our view: it can show only what your profile holds, so it is only as complete as the profile is.
Can Yago check my LinkedIn PDF?
Yago's LinkedIn evaluator, which is part of Pro, reads a PDF of your profile made with the Chrome steps above. It is written for a page saved with your photo and banner, which is what those steps give. LinkedIn calls its own file a PDF resume, and we have not checked that file against the evaluator, so we cannot say it works. If the evaluator is what you want to use, make the PDF with the Chrome steps.
Sources
What this page says LinkedIn does is our reading of these Help pages, checked on 31 October 2026. Everything else on this page is ours, not LinkedIn's: the advice, anything labelled as our view or our steps, and what we say about Yago. LinkedIn changes its Help pages, so the date each one said it was last updated is shown too.
- LinkedIn Help: saving your profile as a PDF (opens in a new tab)The route to the button, and the limits it lists: the mobile app, English only, who is offered it, and the monthly cap. The page said “Last updated: 5 days ago” when we read it.