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Images exporting as solid colours from Figma Slides to PDF

  • March 18, 2026
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Jan Frantz

I’ve run into a weird problem. Does anyone know what happened, please?

I have a slides document and something has happened to some images in this document:

  • The images became pixelated in my document.
  • In the layers panel, the icon for these images changed from the usual image icon to just a rectangle.
  • In the fill panel, these still showed as normal images would.
  • When I export the slides to PDF, these images export as a solid colour rectangle.
  • Not all the slides in my document were affected — but wherever a slide was affected, this happened to all the images in that particular slide.

Some context:

I dragged and dropped the images into the document, did not use the place tool.

No masks were applied on the images.

I did not rasterize or flatten anything, but I’m also assuming I’ve hit some shortcut by mistake.

I’ve replaced all the affected images and the slides export normally now, but does anyone know what might have caused this?

 

Thank you!