Hi all, I created some designs that I exported as PDF. I have two problems with the result:
The text is not selectable (I tried Mac’s Preview and Safari).
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.
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.
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:
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
Thanks for the heads up, Marios. This other OCR tool works the best IMO. The “I love pdf” one worked but ended up rasterizing my text which rendered it blurry at larger sizes.
We just signed an enterprise contract….wish I had known that this is an issue. It’s a deal breaker for us, as we need this for our legal/compliance team to review.
The only work-around that I’ve found is using the OCR feature in Acrobat. Not ideal and leads to junk text.
PDF export is table stakes for modern document software….what gives?!
This worked for me:
PDF Export with TEXT and VECTOR objects | Figma
This plugin did it for me
Only thing that has worked properly for me so that I can open in Adobe and edit text. Not prefect so far but the only thing that worked
Posting the alternate solution here from @Jane_Castellani, since Spectrum is not longer active.
Export to PDF, AND keep text selectable in 2 steps
There is a way I know to convert from Figma to PDF (keeping editability: ability to select, copy and paste the text in the new document)
STEP 1. Simply export your frames as SVG, but be sure to remove the check mark in the “outline text” option, within the options to export SVG (three points, see image).
STEP 2. Now go to CLOUD CONVERT web page, and select convert from SVG to PDF or simply click on this direct link: SVG to PDF | CloudConvert. Then select the SVG files to upload (there is an option to unify several SVG files as a single PDF document) and press the “Start Conversion” button.
This solution is so usefull if you need to label the document for accessibility ;) Thanks so much
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