diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f2861501..3b92e7fe 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2441,6 +2441,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "indexmap",
  "pdf-writer",
  "png",
+ "rayon",
  "rustc-hash 2.1.3",
  "rustybuzz",
  "siphasher",
diff --git a/crates/pdf/Cargo.toml b/crates/pdf/Cargo.toml
index 50f9adbd..24298af0 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/pdf/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,3 +18,8 @@ kurbo = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
+
+# Off the web build, krilla compresses each slide's artwork on a background thread while the next
+# slide renders (the same bytes, in parallel).
+[target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
+krilla = { workspace = true, features = ["rayon"] }
diff --git a/crates/pdf/src/lib.rs b/crates/pdf/src/lib.rs
index 65f42de2..f55a9e0a 100644
--- a/crates/pdf/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/pdf/src/lib.rs
@@ -269,7 +269,9 @@ impl Exporter<'_> {
         let scale = (b.width() / 72.0 * self.opts.dpi.clamp(36.0, 600.0)) / sw;
         let img = deckcraft_render::render_slide(pres, i, &RenderOpts { scale, threads: 4, ..Default::default() });
         if img.width > 0 && img.height > 0 {
-            let mut rgba = img.pixels.clone();
+            let (w, h) = (img.width, img.height);
+            // Taken, not copied: a print-resolution slide is ~16 MB.
+            let mut rgba = img.pixels;
             for px in rgba.as_chunks_mut::<4>().0 {
                 // Composite onto white (slides are normally opaque).
                 let a = px[3] as u32;
@@ -278,7 +280,7 @@ impl Exporter<'_> {
                 }
                 px[3] = 255;
             }
-            let image = Image::from_rgba8(rgba, img.width, img.height);
+            let image = Image::from_rgba8(rgba, w, h);
             if let Some(size) = Size::from_wh(b.width() as f32, b.height() as f32) {
                 s.push_transform(&Transform::from_translate(b.x0 as f32, b.y0 as f32));
                 s.draw_image(image, size);