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PDF export results in corrupted file

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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

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

M_D

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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

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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

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You can try cleaning your input PDF with Rare2PDF

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