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AresVentures
AresVentures
asked in Ask the Community
(Ctrl + Shift + V) VS (Ctrl + Shift + R)

Does anybody know what’s the difference between those two shortcuts?

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
JJYing
JJYing
asked in Ask the Community
Is there any ways to prevent dithering in Figma export

I found out that if I use ‘Layer blur’ or ‘Drop shadow’, Figma will auto apply dithering in the output image, it also applies when I ‘rasterize’ or ‘save as PNG’. This makes the output a little different from what I actually create, and sometimes it makes the image appear to be off when implemented in other softwares like Unity: I’m wondering is there any ways to have any walk arounds to prevent these glitches ?

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
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khamysungat
asked in Ask the Community
Width between elements

Hi everyone! I am trying to find the width between elements by choosing one element and pointing to another, but it doesn’t show anything. How can I fix it? Thank you!

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IraX
1 year ago
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Win_Maw
asked in Ask the Community
Can't "navigate to" my frame (within nested frame)

Hi, I’m searching a way to add interactions between pages with “navigate to” but it seems that it is only available for “scroll to” interaction for the desired frame. When I try to select the frame with “navigate to” my desired frame is not within the choice. Please refer to the images and thanks!

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tank666
1 year ago
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Win_Maw
asked in Ask the Community
Can't see the interactive "+" icon

Hello, I’m trying to add interaction between pages but the interaction icon doesn’t appear even though it’s inside the frame. Is there any way to make it appear? Please refer to the image below.

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W
1 year ago
APH
APH
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Implementation of figma in the company

I need two accounts in the professional version, but the invoice would be for the company I work for. How can we do this?

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APH
1 year ago
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Magnus6
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Can I use Figma to stich .jpgs together into prototype?

I’m looking for a quick way to create a prototype from hand-drawn sketches in the form of .jpg images (e.g., one landing page sketch and four sketches of each page of a megamenu). Is Figma a good fit for stitching these .jpgs together into a rough prototype? I realize that’s not the conventional workflow, but if it’s possible, can someone give me the most relevant keywords to look up in the documentation to accomplish this, assuming I’ve not used Figma extensively before. Thank you.

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1 year ago
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Onno_Personal
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Instance behaves differently from master component (bug?)

See attached file; a simple expanding menu component with 2 states. When used in an ‘app’ component it works as expected; when the menu expands the top bar shrinks because its width is set to ‘Fill’. Nice. But on instance of the app component, it no longer works. The menu does not expand. Found quite a few ’ instance behaves differently’ posts, but do not understand what is happening here. Is this a bug? Anyone got an idea how to fix/workaround? Expanding menu.fig (24.2 KB)

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
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Jerwin_Lallen
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If my subscription ends, will my project w/ premium prototyping still work normally in Prototype View?

I’m planning to subscribe to premium to be able to explore those additional features. But what if my subscription ends? What will happen to my project if I view it on Prototype View? Given I have used premium features like changing variables, conditions, etc. I just want to know If I will still able to view my prototype normally in Prototype View, and if those premium prototyping tools will function or not.

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y_toku
Figmate
1 year ago
Phil_Beresford
Phil_Beresford
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Connectors and snapping to small elements

When using connectors on smaller elements I’ve brought in from Figma I cannot make them snap to the position I want so my flows make sense. They only snap to the edges. Can snapping be turned off? Something like this feature request would be good Figjam hotkeys for snapping Examples: I’d like my connectors to begin on the button and selected menu option

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Phil_Beresford
1 year ago
Stefan
Stefan
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Keyboard shortcuts unwanted change constraints

Since recently i could observe that the contraints of the layer are changed when i align objects with the keyboard shortcuts. e.g. center/center. then the constraints are also changed here. this is annoying because i have to set like contraints to scale/scale again with the mouse every time. can i turn this off so that the constraints are not changed by the alignment?

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
wownflutter1
wownflutter1
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Wacom and Xencelabs tablet experiencing issues

Me and many other tablet owners: Issues from 1) erratic scrolling and panning (specially Wacom) to 2) Control+Click (aka tap) functionality not executing or executing perpetually until we slam the Escape key. Conditions: From an earlier thread, we all have cleared any conflicting plugins of other tablets and loaded the most recent installs… of course, including a computer restart. What devices: This is being reported for both Mac and pc, chrome and Figma app. My issue: Personally, my issue is the Xenselabs tablet vs Figma now the control+click malfunctioning, sticking or not displaying a menu at all. I had ditched Wacom due to the erratic scrolling, panning uncontrollably. Any fixes?

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
VidGuy20
VidGuy20
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Problem with my Wacom tablet.

I was recently using my Wacom tablet. It’s a Intuos CTL-480. The problem is the cursor keeps clicking and bugging. My driver version is 6.3.41-1. It says the driver is already updated. I’ve been using it for awhile now. I’ve tried fixing the problem by downloading a more recent version of the driver (version 6.4.0-11), the more recent one. It didn’t help. It said the driver does not offer support to the current tablet I’m using. I also tried desinstalling the more recent version (version 6.4.0-11) and reinstalling the older version (6.3.41-1). It didn’t work, the cursor keeps bugging and clicking. Can someone help me fix this?

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
Vanessa_Tutka
Vanessa_Tutka
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What's your Token naming convention?

Hi friends! Our team is in the process of building out our theme libraries. We support 50+ brands and hundreds of products and teams. Because of the diversity of our system, we often struggle with balancing simplicity, flexibility, and consistency. Right now our naming convention is: Collection/RoleGroup/Category/Specific/State (so realistically this would look like: Theme/FILL/BRAND/Primary or Theme/TYPE/SYSTEM/On Secondary/Headline/Inactive) Is this too complex? There was some concern that this naming convention would be create usability issue and would be hard to read for our users. A simplified version of this could look like Collection/Category/Specific (so this would be Theme/On Primary/Headline) Personally, I feel that keeping contextual information is essential to compartmentalize and organize our tokens as well as give contextual clues to our users to improve communication. Is this too complex? Is the other too Simple? Do we need to find something in the middle? How do you all

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Vanessa_Tutka
1 year ago
mwork
mwork
asked in Ask the Community
Library color showing up in one file as striped

I have a component library file that I use for work that has a bunch of colors defined. Recently, I started a new file, added in the library to it, and noticed that one of the colors was behaving strangely. No other colors from what I can tell are affected by this. I can only add one image, but the striping effect is shown here, with the color it’s being pulled from on the right. No strokes or affects are applied to the box, just a fill.

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
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annack
asked in Ask the Community
Is it possible to create this animation in Figma? I'm not sure where to start

This is a website i already designed in Figma but the following animation was created by the developer in webflow due to budget constraints. I’m updating my portfolio and am wondering if there’s a way to recreate this: The logo overlayed on the hero image is supposed to shrink on scroll and pocket into the nav bar in it’s colour version. On the website it wasn’t developed exactly as planned but I’m hoping to do so in Figma. Any advice is appreciated! Thank you.

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A
1 year ago
Noodlez
Noodlez
asked in Ask the Community
How do I pull up the side menu for options on an item

I cannot for the life of me figure this out on my laptop. I have a Macbook Pro M1. If this picture doesn’t work, it’s this Figma Beginners Video timestamp 6:19. Thanks! Screenshot 2023-11-05 at 9.36.11 AM|690x445

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Noodlez
1 year ago
Raji_Amula_M
Raji_Amula_M
asked in Ask the Community
Its about frame

Is the iPhone frame responsive to Android?

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dvaliao
Figmate
1 year ago
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Nicholas_Ramsubick
asked in Ask the Community
Interactive drop down menu - trying to have selected choice stay selected

I’m trying to make a interactive drop down menu where you have three options to select and when you’ve selected an option after you click back into the drop down menu your selected option should he highlighted with a green bar on the left edge. Can anyone help to see why when I prototype it everything is working except for the interaction that when I click back into the drop down menu my selected option is not highlighted with the green bar?

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1 year ago
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Bruno31
asked in Ask the Community
How to save existing styles?

Hello everyone! In my foundations file I have plenty of color styles that are being used in my components library. I created a branch to start putting those colors into variables and use them instead, however, because the existing color styles were creating confusion in the branch, I removed all the color styles from the branch to keep it clean and now I only have the colors as variables. Now, I’m worry that by merging the branch, because I deleted all the color styles they will also be removed from the foundations file and affect the existing components. Is there a way that I can bring back the color styles back into the branch so that when I merge it, I still have the color styles available and does’t impact the component library? This is important because the transition of changing the components from using color styles to variables might take a while. Thank you!

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Gayani_S
Figmate
1 year ago
HonzaTmn
HonzaTmn
asked in Ask the Community
Enforcing SSO & Guests accounts

Hey everyone, I can’t find this in documentation, but how do Guests work with SSO when login via SSO is enforced? Do they need a company email? Or is it possible to invite users with non-company emails even when this setting is enabled? Alternatively, is it possible to allow login via Google AND SSO, but not via email/password? There isn’t an option like that in Settings, so I expect no 🤔

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
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Luca_Hibbard-Curto
asked in Ask the Community
Creating a dynamic side-menu item that scales with icons

Hey all! I’ve been using Figma for about 2 years now at my work, and I’m trying to simplify one of the elements of our pages: We have a side bar navigation system that has icons (imported via the Bootstrap Icons plug in) that are all sized to as close to 40x40 as possible. Some are rectangular… which is causing the issue. Each side bar item is as simple as it gets: the icon, which is a component with a long list of variants (23), and a text box next to it. Together, they are grouped as a component, with an auto-layout on it. This makes it so I can adjust the icon, as well as re-write the text next to the icon… and the fill adjusts so that hover effects will work. However… those icons that are taller than they are wide get squashed. In the past I’ve “solved” this by making specific components for each and every shape of an icon… but there has to be a better way. Ideally I’d want one component where all icons can be their shape with a text box that expands the hug on the auto layout… wh

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
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seonggoo.j
asked in Ask the Community
Want to use a file with private network

I would like to share my work through Figma with a company using a corporate private network. If access to the URL of the file is allowed, the preview thumbnail is not visible and the file is not opened with some message “An error occured while opening the editor”. In this case, would it be helpful to allow access to Figma.com in the private network?

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Celine_Figma
Figmate
1 year ago
Dylan_Faust
Dylan_Faust
asked in Ask the Community
Save json file to specific location

I’m working on a project and hoping to save out a .json file based on the size / position of frames in a page. My hope is that the save panel could default to the correct file location, rather than the last save location, as correcting it every time could be a real pain (we can guarantee folks will be using the plugin in figma desktop). Does this sound at all possible?

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Arvid
1 year ago
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Pierre_Vennin
asked in Ask the Community
How can one bring a selected frame/component/asset into view?

Hi all 👋 I have been frustratingly using zoom/unzoom to navigate a Figma file because I could not for the life of me find a way to move the viewport to a component/frame selected in the Layers panel. I am looking for functionality similar to what happens when you search for an item in the search bar. Is there a convenient way (shortcut ideally) to accomplish this ? Thanks !

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tank666
1 year ago
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