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Ryan8
Ryan8
asked in Ask the Community
[Bug] Changing text color removes kerning

Expected behavior: Text does not shift position when I change the color of some of the text. Behavior: Changing the color of some text will remove the kerning pairs between that text and any adjacent text with a different color. This leads to shifts in the text layout when switching between two frames with different color treatment, not to mention less readability.

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tank666
1 year ago
Antonio4
Antonio4
asked in Ask the Community
High Memory Usage on MacBook M1 Pro with 16GB RAM

I am currently encountering a significant issue with my MacBook M1 Pro, which has 16GB of RAM. When I operate my primary applications, the memory usage consistently reaches about 15-16GB, which is alarmingly high and affects the performance of my system. This issue becomes particularly noticeable when using Figma, as it seems to exacerbate the memory usage. Could you please provide guidance or solutions on how to manage or reduce this high memory usage? Are there specific settings in Figma that I should adjust to alleviate this issue? Also, I would like to know if this is a common problem among MacBook M1 Pro users or if there might be something specific with my setup.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
Lee_Wilson
Lee_Wilson
asked in Ask the Community
Paragraph spacing not working with text style

Hi all, I have a strange issue whereby Paragraph spacing is totally ignored if using a text style. Has anybody else had this issue? A quick test would be to create some text, save it as a text and then adjust the spacing value, for me it never updates so kind of pointless. Thanks

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Lauren_Beagrie
1 year ago
Ajith
Ajith
asked in Ask the Community
Do we have a Figma plugin to identifiy which design elements are not part of design system?

Hi All I was wondering, when we create tons of pages - primarily for new designers - If we miss using the Design system elements, are there any to identify which design elements are not from the Design system? Maybe a quick summary of the Elements used from the Design system? Some things like Fign and replace features for Design system elements? I’m checking if we already have some plugins which do this.

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Ajith
1 year ago
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BP_Tara_Singh
asked in Ask the Community
Can anyone help me to understand that how this image hover effect is working without having variant

Can anyone help me to understand that how this image hover effect is working without having variant. https://www.figma.com/file/qCJlIONzcjx6FfMwsGGhb8/FS-West-India-R%26R-Program?type=design&node-id=173%3A2998&mode=design&t=cdZKhGWnhL8dUZlp-1

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tank666
1 year ago
JAVIERA_ANTONIA_BARRIA_ESTRADA
JAVIERA_ANTONIA_BARRIA_ESTRADA
asked in Ask the Community
Can someone help me recover my file?

One of my proyects got deleted and its not in the Deleted section, I think it has to do with the Teams, how can i get it back, i just want it back, can someone help me please…

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
fes.naqvi
fes.naqvi
asked in Ask the Community
Problems logging into Figma with SSO

I am on a corporate work laptop, specifically a 16’ MBP. I am not on VPN but any time I try to use the Desktop app, it wants me to login via SSO in the browser. I login in the browser and get to my Figma home page. Open a file, go to the “Open in Desktop app” and it launches the Figma app and takes me BACK to the SSO login page again and keeps doing this over and over and over and over again. I have no idea what to do. Please help. This is not a problem when using Figma through the browser but I’d rather not use the browser.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
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Drew_Gallagher
asked in Ask the Community
Figma is freezing my computer, how can I fix this?

hey I have had some issues running Figma locally along with my other development tools. It is causing everything to freeze and the CPU usage to increase almost to full capacity. Here is a video of my usage and CPU usage while using Figma https://www.loom.com/share/ff3bec6d1392491da622cfbd0f4c3531?sid=fb5a6337-95e9-4f4f-8ac6-42c34687814cI Have tried it in the browser as well and it is slow.Wondering if anyone else has had similar issues and if there’s a workaround? Attached is a photo of my computer specs as well

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
Il_Marti
Il_Marti
asked in Ask the Community
Sliding image on click with text display

hello everyone, I am asking for help cause I am at the beginning of my Figma journey. I have an image at the center of a page with two buttons below. The right button is a sort of “show info” one. I would like that once the user clicks the button the image moves left making space for a text description that would appear as soon as the image has stopped moving. Same viceversa when the user hides the info clicking on the same button again. I have addes a drawing of the ida, I hop you coul help me. Thanks in advance! Marti

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
Pranav_Pradeep
Pranav_Pradeep
asked in Ask the Community
Floating back to button

Can anyone tell me how to make this button like it has to be pop on to the screen when we scroll to the bottom and it stays there until we get to the bottom. And when ever we press on this button scrolls to the top but when the home or top screen hits the button should go invisible or hide somehow. Anyone know how to make this? I tried my best using sticky and fixed and other methods so can anyone mention any of them with an example file attached it will be appreciated. Let me know please!

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
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Tracy_Wankio
asked in Ask the Community
My smart animated component breaks at the third frame

I have animated 7 frames using smart animate. The flow should be continuous (After delay) However, it breaks on the third frame. So, if I start previewing the flow from frame 1, it stops animating and simply start using dissolve at frame 3. If I Start the flow at frame 2, then it works and breaks at 4. If I start at frame 3, then it works and breaks at 5. It works fro the first 2 frames and then for the rest, it just dissolves.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
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rlist
asked in Ask the Community
Iconset Accessibility

Hi community, we bought a big iconset which came with a Figma file displaying all of the available icons. I am looking for a way to make the icons downloadable for colleagues that view the prototype, but cannot find a way to do so. Maybe this isn’t even the right approach. It would be great for the team to have one doc showing all of the icons and be able to download the one they need right away. As most of them aren’t familiar with Figma, I thought it might be smart to share a prototype containing the overview of all icons. Anyone have an idea if/how this can be accomplished in Figma?

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
Marko_Kos
Marko_Kos
asked in Ask the Community
Library filter disappears if asset is not found

I have several libraries I included in my Figma file. When I go to “Assets” tab and when I search a component, if there are results, library filter is visible. If asset is not found I get a message “No results for…” and library filter dissapears.

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
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Sezin_Urhan
asked in Ask the Community
When clicking the arrow of a slider, it animates only the main component

Hello, I made a navbar with a slider inside a dropdown, this slider has arrows to go left or right and when I first tested it, it showed me that there was no interaction on the arrows. At first I didn’t see it but when I click on the arrows, the slider moves in the main component. So the animation of the arrows is connected to the main component. I would like the arrows to animate my child component do you know where the issue comes from ? Thank you !

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
Mihaela
Mihaela
asked in Ask the Community
Pasting into Figma from Chrome or any other program

Hello everyone, I’ve been using Figma for a bit over a month now. Can someone explain me why can’t I copy text from our existing website (I’m just doing redesigning) to Figma. Or from word or any other program. It feels annoying to type everything on my own, im sure there is a way to do it. Thanks for your patience with my noobishness.

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
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Clive1
asked in Ask the Community
File data erased/lost after upgrade - Figma Desktop App version 116.15.4

Hi, This morning I got a pop-up to upgrade (to Figma Desktop App version 116.15.4.) I’m using MacOS 10.15.7. Prior to upgrading, I was working on a file that I have been working on since the 11th of November. I finished working on the active file and then initiated the upgrade. I did not close the active file. After the upgrade, the file is completely empty and has been reset to the way it was when I imported it on the 11th. I have tried going into the version history. There is a list of 25 auto-saved versions. When I view or restore a previous version, none of the versions show anything other than the original file data from the 11th. I have tried re-booting the machine (even though the files are stored on the cloud and that shouldn’t really make a difference.) I have tried accessing Figma using Chrome (Version 119.0.6045.159) and I get the same results. Any help here would be appreciated…

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Ryan_52
Figmate
1 year ago
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brille1
asked in Ask the Community
Can I get responsive results from Figma

I’m very new to Figma. From a client perspective, I’m not sure if my expectations align with what Figma provides. I want a designer to provide me with a responsive prototype; a prototype that’s showing different content according to viewport aspect. I want to see when it switches to the other design. I also want images to change when I scroll the page. That I want to be able to interactively see, too. Basically, I’m expecting to get something behaving like this: Can Figma, handled by a designer, provide me with this output? Next, from what I know today, Figma neither outputs HTML, nor CSS or font specs. Am I right in my assumption that Figma seems to basically only output animated screeshots? Something similar to a PowerPoint presentation? Please forgive me if I’m missing core Figma facts here. That’s actually what I’m looking for with my question.

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1 year ago
Daiva
Daiva
asked in Ask the Community
Connected components do not update after publishing successfully

I need to add an Asterisk in the text input component, but its text area is a variant, so I go to its component which is in another Figma file. I go to the text area’s component (via “Go to main component” to make sure I’m in the right place), make changes, publish them successfully, then go back to the needed file and push the Update, it seems successful as it’s not in the Updates list anymore but I still cannot see the actual update in the needed file. Everything is still connected, all updates were pushed and accepted correctly, what am I doing wrong?

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
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Brokenconcept_Fusedauthority
asked in Ask the Community
Figma Prototype Animation Integration Issue on Landing Page

I’m working on creating a landing page featuring a mobile phone screen on the right, incorporating a Figma prototype animation of a WhatsApp conversation spanning 19 frames. I held the key on my Mac and created an instance by clicking the first frame and then dragged it to the desired position on the landing page. Despite these steps, the animation doesn’t load when I preview the page; only the initial static frame is visible. I understand this might be a rookie question, but I’m unsure why this isn’t functioning as expected.

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tank666
1 year ago
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Melisa.M
asked in Ask the Community
Why this happen on almost all of the protype´s pages

I cant see the title on the protype. the hamburguer its a frame selection named “menu”, and its inside on a group selection (title + icon) on the frame page Home

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
Lakshya_Sharma
Lakshya_Sharma
asked in Ask the Community
After delay greyed out but frame isn't nested!

I need to add an “on delay” condition to all my frames. However only for the transition from frame 17-18, the “on delay” condition is greyed out. None of the 20 frames are nested. I dont understand why this is happening. Can somebody help?

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Lakshya_Sharma
1 year ago
Prachi_Hota
Prachi_Hota
asked in Ask the Community
On tap, scroll down menu 3 option linked to 3 frames

I am relatively new to Figma. I created a drop down menu. I want the 3 option in the drop down menu to navigate to 3 different frames on tap. I was able to do it for 1st option but unable to do it for 2. Can someone help me?

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Prachi_Hota
1 year ago
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Motele
asked in Ask the Community
Can figma do this?

Hi! I try to build a component that has different “co-dependent” childs. As I am not a developer this is pretty hard to explain for me so I tried to scribble it. Its about combining certain Variants while other Combinations are not possible/ permitted/ false… is it possible to do this via properties ? So for example if I choose Variante 1 in Comp 1 I just want to allow the combination with Var 1 of Comp 2 but not with Var 2 of Comp 2 and so on. Geez, this is hard to explain. 😔 If you have any Infos or Videos on YT I’d be super grateful.

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
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Mohamed_Amine_Majite
asked in Ask the Community
The "cmd + z" is not working in the lastest update

After updating Figma to version 116.15, the cmd + z to undo a change is not working at all.

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Ryan_52
Figmate
1 year ago
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Jason_Rudin
asked in Ask the Community
Help! Comments are broken - not fixed to a frame?

My comments aren’t fixed to a specific location/frame, but as I move around the viewport they always remain in sight. Also, when I create a new comment, the indicator doesn’t show up correctly either. Please send help! Loom video here.

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ksn
Figmate
1 year ago
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