I’ve used many programs/apps and I find that Figma’s PDF exports are always so large—even after using plugins to compress them. Example: Two page PDF document with only text, simple svgs icons, and two colours. No raster images, gradients, or effects. Super basic document. Figma export 9.5MB TinyImage compression 2.2MB Compressify.io compression 2.2MB I would expect this PDF to be no larger than 1MB in the first place. What is going on here? The only possible factor I can imagine is the maybe the canvas size (1130x1600px), but I doubt it because everything in the PDF export are text/vectors. Any help?

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Large PDF exports even with compression plugins?

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July 24, 2023
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I’ve used many programs/apps and I find that Figma’s PDF exports are always so large—even after using plugins to compress them.

Example: Two page PDF document with only text, simple svgs icons, and two colours. No raster images, gradients, or effects. Super basic document.

Figma export 9.5MB
TinyImage compression 2.2MB
Compressify.io compression 2.2MB

I would expect this PDF to be no larger than 1MB in the first place. What is going on here?

The only possible factor I can imagine is the maybe the canvas size (1130x1600px), but I doubt it because everything in the PDF export are text/vectors. Any help?

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KayeishAuthor

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Cool. Lemme know if you’ve fixed it and I can try again. Would love to have a better compression PDF plugin.

Miek

New version is online

Vivek_Sahi

I tried the MKitPdf and I was able to compress my pdf from 1.3 MB to 26 KB. I struggled so much to do this! Thank you so much 🙂

Daphne_Bernard

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@josh SO bummed to hear that dealing with PDF size is not a priority for Figma. It is a huge issue for us and our clients. We need PDFs to be 25mb so clients can email them and Figma PDFs, even compressed, are consistently over that size for most of our projects. Our clients need PDFs for legal reviews.

Peter_Pustota

It’s too bad Figma isn’t working on this problem. I too have encountered that files saved by Figma cannot be mailed. Even though they don’t contain any bitmap graphics at all

KayeishAuthor

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@Josh Seeing that other users (here and in other threads) are having the same issue, is there any way to raise this higher on the dev’s list of to-dos?

Julie_Rousset

Same problem here @Miek . Resolving this problem would enable our organisation using Figma for social media (LinkedIn Pdf). 🙂

Cinzia_Nicoletti

I have a problem with the ‘Lato’ font, I get text wrap, can you do something about it? I’ll buy you a coffee. Even more!

Miek

Please send me a Figma file(link) with the problem.

Esther_UX

Exactly the same here. PDF’s in Figma are extremely large, even when using images that are only a few kb. I need to compress everything outside Figma, and it’s such an annoying extra step to do. I just want to export small PDF’s so I can e-mail them to clients.

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