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Rs12
March 18, 2024
Question

PDF export results in corrupted file

  • March 18, 2024
  • 14 replies
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Since a week I am having trouble with exporting PDF’s in Figma. The export works fine until I want to import this PDF into Adobe Indesign or an online print tool. Both apps failed to load the Figma PDF. I have send the files directly and the service replied they are having issues opening my file.

The strange thing is, I can open the PDF in Mac preview, in an internet browser and I can import it in the Gimp image editor. So sometimes it works, sometimes it don’t.

I am using the latest Figma 116.16.13 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.0.

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s117
s117
December 4, 2024

This is still broken. Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop can’t normally open the exported PDF from Figma.

M_D
M_D
New Member
March 10, 2025

This is still broken; no matter export settings I use, no other applications (or websites) can use the files I export from Figma. And when I try to do an export from the browser, the page crashes….

Scott W
Scott W
New Member
March 26, 2025

This solution worked for me  —  Take the PDF that was exported from Figma, and open it in the Preview App on Mac. Then in Preview, go to export the file, and make sure “PDF/A” is checked.

When I imported it into InDesign, I had no issues when it came to exporting a PDF out of InDesign. I did still have to change my “View” settings in InDesign to “Preview on CPU” in order for the file to appear correctly in InDesign.

Hope this helps.

Michael Andreas
Michael Andreas
New Member
June 2, 2025

You can try cleaning your input PDF with Rare2PDF

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