Export PDF Files Creates Huge Files

Hi @Alex_Wolf,
Figma only supports PDF exports at 1x , so there wouldn’t be a native option to export assets at a different scale. There are a couple options to workaround this though.

1. This Community plugin helps you to compress PDF files upon export: Compressed PDF Exporter or TinyImage plugin
2. If you don’t mind keeping objects in PDFs as vectors, you can export all frames as JPEG while reducing the scale. Then you can combine them into one PDF with other apps or online tools.
3. You could export from Figma as a 1x PDF and then use an online tool such as Compress PDF or I Love PDF to reduce the size.

Though I can see how supporting this natively would be useful for other users as well, so I’ve noted it for our Product team. I can’t guarantee anything on our end, but I can give it some visibility 🙂

Hope it helps!

Its not solved, I have tried those points of your answer … so many takes time to get compression of FDF files 😅

I’ve noticed recently that Figma is exporting “optimized” PDF files, in that the file sizes are now much smaller. Am I the only one? I can’t find any information on this being a feature update!

Most platforms, require pdf files to be under 5mb. take for example Linkedin Resume upload option. It cannot have even a 5.1 mb pdf. So When I exporting my resume from Figma, it kept exporting it at 7.2 mb. And online compression tools could not lower it below 5.1. Tried them all. What could you possibly to to a file that has only text and some color? This was frustrating. The tool should natively allow for some options.

Hi @dvaliao, My file containing 28 slides with 4 images, 1 vector image and some smiley images, exporting it to pdf creates a file of 19,5 MB. I just did a test in which I removed all images, so slides only contain text and a few shapes. Considering the content it still it still returns a file size of 15.4 mb… have to go back to using Powerpoint instead 😥

same here, made my resume. 2 colors, one font, 3 vector icons and I still get 5 Mb even if I compress it’s compressed to 3,9 Mb so is not even worth it. it’s absurd.

Hi, I really appreciate the subtle update!

I used to compress PDFs exported from Figma using online converters like ILOVEPDF. However, since this recent update, the PDFs I export from Figma still aren’t as compressed as I need them, so when I try to reduce their size using online tools, they often lose color.

This happened a bunch of times. And I don’t remember running into color loss before this update.

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Same with the resume issue. Figma jams so much meta data or context data into the basic file exporter that a literal empty artboard is still multiple MB. Figma really needs to fix that, its kinda absurd. I shouldn’t have to re-export the PDF out of something else to get it to work.