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PDF Export fails with vector elements

  • May 7, 2025
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stephie_wue

Hey guys,

I have a file with 8 small vector Illustrations in it and running into difficulties exporting them. 

If I export a pdf the vector illustrations will not be displayed in it, an error message appears: "not all elements will be shown correctly"

 

If I export the file there are error messages because of the pixel sizes of the graphics. But I don't want to scale every element of the layout by hand and pixel perfect plugin was no use in this matter. 

Only way to fix it was exporting to SVG and the. Export the avg to pdf. 

What can I do next time?

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ksn
Figmate
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  • 1679 replies
  • May 21, 2025

Hey ​@stephie_wue - happy to share some thoughts on this here.

First, regarding the Pixel Perfect plugin: it was created by a 3rd party user on our community, and not one developed by Figma. When looking up the plugin, I also see that it was last updated approx. 6 years ago. If you’ve been trying to use that to help offset some of the issues you’re having, that may be why (a lot of stuff had changed with Figma between now and then).

I’m not sure if there may be a plugin that could help facilitate scaling things on a faster level, but would recommend trying to see if you can find one that is more recent.

I’m sorry I can’t offer a better solution immediately, but if I do find one, I’ll come back and respond here again. Meanwhile, I think that this would be better suited for our “Ask the Community” section, so I’ve moved it there for the time being. There may be other community members that are dealing with the same issue, and have solutions.

 


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