A digital magazine is the highest-value thing you can build in Canva — it's the format sponsors pay for, the lead magnet people finish, and the only document where a reader taps a link while they're still excited about what they just read. This is the finished frame from the tutorial, as an editable Canva template.

What's inside

  • The editable Canva template — A4 portrait, single pages, with the 15 mm margins and three columns already set as guides.
  • A contents page with the links already wired — every line pointed at its page using Link → Pages in this document, the option almost nobody uses.
  • The cover, the feature layout and a sponsor page — masthead, issue line, cover lines, headline, standfirst, two-column body, pull quote.
  • The parts bin — one page holding a styled example of all four type sizes, so issue two is copy-paste rather than restyling.
  • Six reference PDFs — the grid spec drawn to scale, the type scale at real sizes, a 16-page flatplan, a link map to click-test against, the export checklist, and the read-me.

The checkbox this saves you from

Underneath the file-type list in Canva's download menu there's a checkbox called Flatten PDF. It sounds like housekeeping. What it does is bake every layer into a flat image and strip every hyperlink out of the document — sponsor links, product links, your entire contents page. And the file still looks completely perfect, so you send it, and you find out weeks later, if you find out at all. The read-me walks the whole export, including the two other delivery routes the same file feeds.

Who it's for

Anyone building a lead magnet, a sponsor media kit, a club or church newsletter, a portfolio, or an actual subscription issue. The layout is solved once and every issue after that is a duplicate.

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Use it for unlimited issues of your own publications, including ones you sell or take sponsorship for. The template and PDFs themselves are not for resale.