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Hi all, I created some designs that I exported as PDF. I have two problems with the result:




  1. The text is not selectable (I tried Mac’s Preview and Safari).




  2. The files are rather large (1MB for an A4 size design, no images or vectors, just a few text bozes.




Any ideas how to overcome this? (I would try to avoid bringing it back my design to Sketch.

@Antonio_Marquez glad to hear it works and your Figma workflow is now improved.

What specific features does the Super PDF plugin offer for merging frames into a single PDF file in comparison to using the Preview app workaround?

Hey @samanthasen776, there are two key benefits which are important to me. One is that I do what I do inside Figma, avoiding context switching especially when I’m on my laptop with limited screen real estate. The second benefit is that I can do this on both Figma and FigJam.

PDF Export with TEXT and VECTOR objects | Figma


This plugin did it for me

I had a similar issue and no plugin can maintain the layout that I want. But finally, after trying this and that, I can export the PDF in Figma with selectable text! Here’s what I did:



  • Remove all opacity variables for layers or color, and make sure everything is 100%

  • Remove all auto-layout and groups

  • I used a Google Fonts typeface, which was not quite popular, but the PDF result didn’t work. So I tried to use a more common font first (Times New Roman) then tried to export and see the result (selectable or not). Once it’s selectable I could adjust it to my desired typeface.


It works now!

I found a solution! Export the screen as .pdf and then use Make PDF searcheable. Online OCR tool. to convert it to searchable and selectable text

This worked for me thanks

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