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I love the new Figma slides - when will there be a PDF export with editable text? That would make it almost perfect!

I’m new here. So I’m creating a lo-fi wireframe and I’ll like the page to be vertically scrollable so I tried expanding the length of the frame. Every other item on the frame stays in place except the vectors. How can I fix it? Also, if that isn’t the right way to make the frame vertically scrollable, please let me know. Thank you!

Hello everyone, I have a problem for import file Figma to wordpress, what is the problem and someone have a solution for that ? After generate token and copy paste the Url Figma file in Wordpress is dont work.

Hello, I cancel my subscription on Figma app and i want to make a request for refund. The payment has been make today and as you tell in refund policy if i live in E.U i can request payment refund in 14 days of purchase. Unfortunately, I did not receive any response from support, I sent an email, but without success. Thanks!

I’m looking to stack an overlay on top of an existing autolayout frams, such that it scales responsively to its parent’s size. In the screenshot below you can see a simple demo setup. The “Outer Frame” is designed to be responsive when used in a layout. The contents inside (the blue and red bars being shown as an example) will scale in response to any change in its parent frame’s dimensions. The “Overlay” is designed to live inside the Outer Frame, stacked above the Inner Frame in the z-order. It should also fill the outer frame. Below is an image of me doing this using absolute positioning but it is NOT responsive. (image can’t be included for dumb forum reasons) If the Outer Frame gets resized, you have to manually resize the overlay. Here’s what happens if you don’t: (Image omitted so I can submit this question) When set to Absolute positioning, you lose the ability to make an element Fill its parent container, as if Autolayout is not on. What’s the trick here to make everything wo

Hello, I struggle with merging currently a lot, because the preview marks a lot of components in the branch as edited, that should not be edited. Both ways of reviewing them side by side or overlayed look exactly the same, but I still can´t figure our what changes have been made. Maybe a new layer name? changes in autolayout? As design System owner I should be aware of every change I merge. This is really blocking me from merging and provides double work sometimes, because I will archive the branch and edit main instead. I will roll our branching-workflows for a whole company soon, this will be a major problem in two weeks. Can you help me with that?

Hi there, I recently created a basic set of variables for my design system which I use as a starting point for a variety of web projects. I’ve wireframed a large number of pages in grayscale and now wish to swap in the branded colors using variable modes, but I’m foreseeing a problem. I would have to add the branded colors to my core design library to use mode switching. After the project is completed I’d have to hide the branded colors with scoping, and would need to re-enable them if I ever needed to go back into the project. Overtime this would cause a lot of bloat in my core variable set. I could manually apply the brand colors with a set of local variables in each working design file, but then I wouldn’t be able to take advantage of variable modes. Using a plugin like variable manager to copy my core variables into each design file would require me to manually push core updates into each file instead of utilizing library sharing. Neither of these solutions seems very efficient. I

Hi! I work with a corporate account. Let’s call it ‘Company 1’. Now we have one team with some projects. We made our own design system and connected it to all our files in this team. So all components and styles work correctly. I can change color in main btn and all same btns changed there color automatically. We need to replace all our file with bog amount of frames to another account. Call it ‘Company 2’. How we can do in not to off styles? We want to replace all and our design library to. Don’t be linked to the old accont and company. Delete old company and account and continue work with new account without changes, same frames, same disign system. all component linked with mane component. Can we do it? How?

Hello, is there a way to create an organisation wide API key for the REST API? Currently its connected to a personal API key, which is not a good idea. We plan to export styles and variables in an automated way …

Adding, for example, 1px borders does not increase the size of the frame. It makes designing websites where “box-sizing: border-box” just not accurate with how browser compute the width and height. How do you go around this behavior ? for me, I add extra 1px padding around the frame (I also have to be using auto-layout).

Hi! I’m having a weird issue with Figma lately and it’s affecting all the frames in my project. It happens when I tried to add a layer with the Matching Layers tool, it works perfectly but then when I check my frames, I notice some layers have moved arbitrarily. It’s a very rare bug. Then I tried to go to another version of my project to go back to before when the project was all fine, but the layers appear to be moved again. I really don’t understand this bug and I would like to have some help, please. Thank you.

When I invite someone to collaborate on a Figma project, do I have to pay the fee, if the invited person has an active Figma subscription? Was unable to find an answer in the documentation. Thx in advance for any links or clarification. Regards

Hi Anyone experienced decrease in image quality with .fig local copy ? When export file to .fig and reopen, I feel like some image, GIF, Video’s quality be lower than before. I do not know What HAPPEN! ever is it true?? Someone know about this… and solution… *I can’t english very well sorry

The professional plan for this month of April was renewed by mistake and I requested a refund. I spoke to a very kind operator who gave me two options in the email: “I can either refund fully by canceling your subscription or I can refund for only the extra users charged this month, but keep the plan active”. However, I didn’t see this email right away, I saw it a few days ago and I replied to him with the first option, except that he no longer replies to me and this Saturday the days you can request it run out. I don’t know what to do, I even opened another ticket to get their attention, but no one responded

If i take a screenshot of a page that is wide but short and paste it into FigJam, then take a screenshot that is narrow and tall and paste it into FigJam they show at different sizes. I use FigJam a lot for capturing flows and bits of other things and want it to always paste in at the same resolution… drives me crazy. Anyone else?

I’ve been using Figma for many years now, and to this day, still do not know what value/benefit a “Group” nesting structure provides over a “Frame” nesting structure. I use Frames for everything. Someone please explain! Thanks!

Hey guys, I am designing an app and I suggested to my client to use Material Design, mentioning that they could use any design system they want, or even create it from scratch, since what I will create has a custom look. My problem is, and it’s the first time I hear about it in 17 years, my client’s developer is asking me to name the colors exactly like they do in the Material Design system. Is he insane, or am I insane? 😛 He’s using Flutter, and he says that if the colors are named exactly the same, they will simply be assigned to the right element inside each component. But I am not using the colors in the same way, so if they would automatically get assigned, it would be a total mess. Anyone had this request before? Am I missing something? Thank you 🙂

Before it was possible to use a modifier key like CTRL Example: I use CTRL + Shift + A for my Shortcuts plugin to set Align between Items on “Fixed”. This was working fine for years. Suddenly it executes add Autolayout (Shift + A) even though the Shortcut is correctly applied and visible in die macOS menubar. So its ignoring the CTRL modifier key now. Is this intended?

Hi I have a selected Figma node item’s as an array of image byte arrays in the ui. It is an html file. I have installed JSZIP via npm install jszip. But when I try to refer jszip, it gives error. I tried as below Blockquote <html> <head> <title>Zip Images</title> <script src="node_modules/jszip/dist/jszip.min.js"></script> </head> <body> <script> function ui_f5_zipIt() { console.log(array_image_bytes) const zip = new JSZip(); ///THROW ERROR HERE } </script> Error is VM489:83 Uncaught ReferenceError: JSZip is not defined at ui_f5_zipIt (<anonymous>:83:21) at window.onmessage (<anonymous>:21:13) Please note I am working in figma desktop

Is it just me or everyone else, I now found “Publish changes…” button less intuitive? Furthermore, the button is kind of camouflaging with the entire UI. I’m wondering though what’s the reason for this design?

There’s an issue when I open the file using the file link; some parts of the components (like icons) are missing on the viewer’s screen. However, we found that this only occurs in accounts that have editor permissions but are set as viewers in a project. It does not happen in accounts that are editors or general viewers; they see the correct components. This is particularly concerning because the affected account belongs to a developer, and I’m worried they might develop the wrong UI due to missing components. have editor permissions but are set as viewers editors or general viewers

Hi designers and developers, I’ve got a small issue with Figma’s Dev Mode. Every time I want to copy text, I have to select it or the variable first—super annoying! Our team uses variables for i18n copy, and this extra step is a hassle for our partners. Any tips on how to set it so we can copy text directly without the selection? It’d be awesome if Figma added this feature! Can’t wait to hear your suggestions and discuss!

I am currently developing a Figma plugin and I am exploring different methods to implement user authentication. I am considering using Firebase Authentication due to its simplicity and robust features. I would like to know if it is possible to integrate Firebase Authentication to authenticate users within a Figma plugin

I have a file that has templated components made up of smaller components that are linked from other files in our design system. Whenever the page with the templates is copied for a project the size of it goes from using 9% of memory to 24% right away. And as designers copy some of the templated components onto new pages within the newly copied file the memory usage gets out of control fast. There are Lots of variants that are on the on file that is being copied and each variant contains lots of variants of the smaller molecules that make up the templates. What is the best way to go about fixing this? I have thought about using instance swaps from a library file so that designers are only making edits to the instances vs components on the file. But I am not sure how we can reduce the memory usage significantly without messing up their design work. I have added support-share@figma.com to the file but they have not accepted the invite yet.

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to create a secure login experience inside of a Figma plugin. I am currently using Firebase Authentication on my remote server which is working great. Now I would like to leverage Firebase Authentication through my Figma Plugin but I am running into roadblocks. Any help would be appreciated. I am following https://www.figma.com/plugin-docs/oauth-with-plugins/ and I am able to make sense of some of the instructions. I have successfully loaded my authentication page that is on my remote server by opening the remote page using (figma.showUI(<script>window.location.href = "https://www.mysitehere.com"</script>); I am able to go through the login flow on the remote server. After that I am stuck… How do I generate and store the unique read/write key pair? I am able to log in with Firebase and I am redirected to a predefined page that gets passed the authResult all inside the Iframe. How do I return that authResult to the figma plugin and then r