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Is there a way to write things out to a local file through the plugin? I would like to read through figma file, extract the necessary information that I am looking for, and then write that out into a local file in the format of json / csv. I was looking into some external libs like fs for typescript. But I am running into issues trying to do that.  Anyone can give some pointers on how I can write things out to a local file?

  As an active Figma user, I would appreciate it if you could enable the AI ​​feature for me."Also, AI features are not available in the team settings and I can't enable or disable them"  Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I exported my design files from previous team, and I want to upload the file to my personal workspace, the file loads for a while, during the loading I see the file created in my workspace and I get this error message. After closing the popup, when I open the file, there are no assets, only empty artboards.I that file I used few videos, but mostly there where designs/assets that were created in figma. Is anyone familiar with this issue? How it can be fixed? HELP 😭

Hello,When prototyping, the top of my frame is hidden behind the phones camera (see picture). Is there a way to avoid this from happening or do I have make my top bars lower? Would be so appriciated if someone could help me.Wishing you a great day!Kind regards,Jacob

I support faculty staff and students at our university, so I would like to apply for the education plan as an administrator.  I do not teach, so I do not have a syllabus.  The form is not allowing me to submit the form unless I attach a syllabus.  The form gives you the option to apply as an administrator, but administrators do not a syllabus.  How should I apply?   Thanks, Aaron

I educate classes in Figma and before the summer they could apply for an education plan using their private e-mails. Since they’ll be graduating it’s better if they keep everything on the account that they’ll be using later on - after school. But now it asks for a school mail, is there any way around this now?

Does anyone know why Segoe UI Regular sizes might be greyed out and not working on a Mac? Issue: I’ve never had this problem in the past, but as of two days ago the font Segoe UI regular and semi-bold are not working in my files. The other weights seem to work fine and I have the option to change their sizes etc. Other things worth noting: (A) this happens in both the desktop and web versions of my files (B) It happens on existing and new files © I can use the font in other applications such as Word/Powerpoint etc (D) Co-workers don’t have this problem when they edit my files. What I’ve tried so far: (1) I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the Segoe font family. I’ve downloaded from two different MSFT domains to make sure it wasn’t the downloaded files that were the problem (2) I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled Figma desktop. (3) I’ve rebooted Figma, my machine etc (2) I’ve ran the Mac OS font validator and all of the Segoe UI font’s passed validation. Any suggestions? I’m asking here be

My Figma Black is not Black (it’s black in other applications) – any suggestions gratefully received.

I had personal setbacks that caused my graduation to be delayed. My education plan has expired -- I transfered the projects I was working on onto a starter team but I am not sure if I am going to be able to continue to work on them after my education plan expires 

Since one of the most recent updates, text layers no longer update without restarting the entire prototype from scratch. For instance, I have a button that says “Save” and change the text to “Update”. Then I look at the prototype and the button text says “U” and not the entire text I added. Refreshing does nothing. I have to close and relaunch it to see the text change. This is across all component instances and is specific to text.I’m convinced Figma doesn’t do QA work sometimes. Every prototype has this problem now. I don’t want to “reset” Figma app for the 100th time either.

I prefer to use a limited design where I can see fonts, colors, size and so on. It seems that I have changed my settings and now “Prottype” TAB is installed…. I woud like to go back to previous settings - to “Properties type”. 

In my design system, I wanna provide a couple of components that act as containers, e.g., Popover. So, the Figma-user / design system consumer can put inside whatever it needs (img, text…). I don’t want to be too specific & restrictive here. Currently, the components in Figma act more as closed constructs: All the options we want to provide have to be designed in advance as variants, variables, etc. This is cool for consistency, but it is super rigid for a custom content that can’t be foreseen. The only way I could provide some flexibility is by suggesting the Figma designer to detach the component instance and then put the custom content inside. Any thoughts, workarounds, plugins, coming Figma features?

Hi everyone,I would like to update my portfolio and that's where Figma Slides comes into play. My thoughts are to rebuild my new portfolio in the tool. Previously I have always used Indesign, but I find it too static. Slides offers me a larger playing field and I think the animation function is great. Now my question is, if I create a presentation in Slides with small animations, will these also be included in the export as a PDF and if not, will the default state be displayed in the PDF or how does it behave?In Indesign I can export an interactive PDF. There I can then integrate smaller animations such as hover on the button etc.. How is it with Figma Slides, because when I export I cannot choose between PDF and interactive PDF.Looking forward to your feedback.

hello, it would be very much appreciated if it was possible to apply numeric variables to the x & y position of absolute positioned elements within components. Here is the case i am working on: While everything is completely tokenized and adjusts to different screen densities, i cannot apply the positioning tokens to the design defining the absolute positioning of the dropdown -list flyout. As you can see the distance needs to be adjusted as well. This would be solved if a dynamic token was applied. This flyout needs to be absolute positioned, so it can be above other elements in forms. Please make it possible to apply variables to the position of absolute positioned elements! 🙂

I’m trying to copy/reuse some components that have Dev Mode annotations, but I want to reuse them to create another type of component, so the current annotations don’t really match the new component and I would just like to remove all annotations all together, but couldn’t find how to do it yet. Is it even possible? If so, how can I do that? 🥸

Oh boy this could have caused a lot of headaches if I didn’t catch this… I do not have “Simple Design System” from Figma added to this file as a library, as indicated by the not-selected “Add to file” button: (the only reason I see it in the library list at all is cause I took the screenshot after dragging in the wrong component) I did a search for the “textarea” component that we have in our own custom design system that IS added as a library, and this is what I saw: No red flags yet, doesn’t say which library this belongs to, naturally I assumed this was our textarea component I dragged it in and now it tells me where it came from (very easy to miss though) I appreciate whatever Figma’s trying to do to help here but I need to neeeeever ever ever see this design system. I don’t know why it came up when I searched in the Assets panel. Removing that one instance of the component removes any mention of Simple Design System, but if I search for components again it will still bring up t

I had this problem and saw another post in which people didn’t had their answer;I tried everything i could, in my modest experience with Figma, but i kept getting the exports with a thin white line, sometimes top, bottom or sides. I tried to increase the canvas with couple px, exporting multiple sizes (x1, x1.5., x2, etc) - had same results, nothing worked.In the end, i managed to find the bug and the fix. My solution is pretty simple:Create a new frame with the desired size (exactly what you need, not +/- px). Then, you can copy-paste the graphics from the frame that has the export error to the newly created frame, just don’t copy-paste the whole frame. I noticed if you copy-paste / duplicate the frames is when the exported error happens, be it with one line top, bottom, two lines on the sides, etc. Double check in the preview area, and export.I started having this problem when i was duplicating frames in order to change few items, such as titles and subtitles, and nothing else helped

I enrolled for the education plan and its says i have all the perks under the professional plan but i can’t access the dev mode, and its prompting me to upgrade my plan any idea why is it though

Hey community, I hope you can help! I found a very strange behavior of a basic design tool: Strokes. If I want to wrap an element that is filled with color (I tried rectangles, frames or autolayouts) in an autolayout and I want the outside autolayout to have an insight stroke. But somehow the insight stroke is not visible. It is like the inner element overlaps the colors and strokes of the outer autolayout. Why is it suddenly like that? In the past the described path worked just fine and I do have files with such elements. But I cannot recreate them. Where there any changes made with reference to this in the last releases? I hope anyone knows an answer or maybe even has a solution? Greetings! ✌️

My initial deduction was based on 5 design seats, and for the new deduction, I would like to deduct based on 2 design seats. I hope to receive a refund for the additional 3 seats.nvoice numberC2E1C145-0041 

It would be possible to have more regular updates on Figma Enterprise PKG and MSI files? Users mention that the application installed by the management console is old, date from December 2024 (124.6.5) and the website has newer versions but this prevents us from installing one by one, as we do not have recent PKG in the admin console like new ones (125.1.5). Why is the enterprise version not available like the version on the Figma website which is much more recent? Thanks

Hi everyone  I am creating a hero section & would like to change the bottom of it to have a wavy curved effect.I know this can be done as as a shape and then edit the bottom of it by editing the points then adding a frame round the hero section is this the correct way or can i edit the bottom of a frame section to create the desired curves.would creating different shapes to a section need to be created as shape elements and then nested in a frame. thanks  Ang 

Hey everyone, I’m facing a weird issue with a Component in Figma, and I’d really appreciate some help!I created a dropdown menu inside a Main Component with two states:Closed state – The menu is hidden. Open state – The menu expands, showing the options.The issue:When I use an Instance of this component in my design, the dropdown opens fine, but I can't click on any of the options inside it! The options don’t have any interactions inside the Main Component, they’re just arranged properly. The only way to make the buttons work is to detach the Instance, but that defeats the purpose of using a Component. I checked the layer order to make sure nothing is blocking the options, but the issue persists.Is there something in Figma Components that prevents interaction with inner elements in an Open state? Or is there a way to make the options clickable without detaching the Instance?Any insights or solutions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! 😊Here’s a short video showing the iss

Good afternoon, I’ve been working on this UI kit I downloaded for a few hours, and I just relised then that along the way something has occured that has caused these strange stripes running vertically down each frame. The colour itself does look to be one of my colour varients, however I have no idea how this has occured. Can anyone assist in helping me get rid if this?

HiI’m looking for a plugin to convert CSS colour variables to Figma colour tokens.For example, I could feed the plugin these two CSS colour variables  --card-okay-icon: #4ade80;                    --card-okay-icon-bg: rgba(74, 222, 128, 0.2);  and plugin would produce screengrab below.I can find lots of plugins doing it the other way round but not finding any that match this direction (CSS → Figma Variable)