PDF export - text not selectable

February 2023 and this has still not been solved… I tried the SVG → chrome → PDF trick but bullet points disappear and other shapes do not keep their proper dimensions. I have been using CopyDoc, which works amazingly, but it’s not free (not sure if it was back when it initially came out). Why should we have to compromise for paid tools when the function natively exists in Figma?

Ran into this problem today. Right now, I’m using this site to convert pdf to a searchable version. Hope it helps you too.

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Hello guys, I found a very simple solution to export frames to pdf with selectable text and even internal/external links using Figma plugin called “** Pitchdeck Presentation Studio**”.

Here is the video demo:

Plugin link:

Hope it helps 😉

If you have the Adobe Suite : Exporting to svg (unchecking “outline text”) and opening in Illustrator works great.
Bullet points and icons don’t export though, so you’d have to re-add those, but then the export to PDF (export for screens then select PDF as the output) is a great solution: it’s lossless and it’s a small file size.
With this method, I got a ~180 KB PDF with perfect icons instead of 4 MB with Figma PDF export that can get compressed to 1.1 MB but with blurry icons and the text is not selectable.

Hello, a little tip if you paste text from converted Figma’s pdf file and your text look like "Collaboratedwithcross􏰅 " - without whitespaces and adding strange symbols to your text. You can try the way:
Design → Text → LetterSpacing up to 3%

Hope it helps ☀️

That worked!! Thank you:)

This worked for me as well. tHank you for figuring that out! so tricky…

this is the most important tip! avoid opacity and export directly from figma would be fine . now is July 5, 2023

We have provided a new version of the MKitFPdf plugin. PDF export with selected frames, text as text, crop marks, …
Maybe it meets your requirements, it is still a beta version, we would be happy for suggestions, bugs and hints.
→ MKitFPdf-Plugin

For anyone still struggling with this, try Inkspace. I got great results with it. Export the design to SVG (with “outline text” unchecked), open the SVG in Inkspace, and export normally to PDF.