Allow viewers to only export, but not copy

What would be the point of disabling copying in this case? Someone could export individual assets as SVG and paste them into a new file if they wanted.

Thanks for your message 🤗

If the other person can copy the file. They have the file and I don’t want that. I just want her to be able to export the images.

But what’s the use-case for this? Usually this restriction is used as a safety feature so others can’t steal your work easily, but allowing them to export things will make it super easy to do that. So if it’s not a safety feature, what is it for?

We as a designer cooperate with external developers. We do not want these developers to be able to save or export the whole file. Only what they need. Because we have spent a lot of time to create the file.

A lot of these sorts of requirements are very much edge cases. I can see the reverse being a problem forever getting slacked by the developer because I forgot to put an export on X. The easy fix is to just create a file with just the exports in it.

There’s a degree to which this, or similar requests, might be read more as trying to make dev hand over easier, more straightforward.

At the moment a dev is somewhat left to their own devices in working out which elements to export — it may not be obvious to them that X icon needs to be exported by selecting Y parent container, that subtly adds extra padding, handles baseline shift/text alignment etc etc.

Sure, manually adding red-lines and instructions can help, but in a fast-moving, small team that’s not always feasible, or kept up-to-date.

So, some means of ‘filtering’ for devs, to see just those elements with Export settings could be useful.

Part of this puzzle might be helped if I could set export properties on Components once, and have that value passed through to all instances thereof – would anyone agree with that approach?

Exactly it would be great what you can share.

As a Product Designer, we are always encounter copyright problem to our Design Works in the file that could just easily be duplicated by others. As a matter of fact it’s about to keep our Design File save from others to just share it without our permission.

So that’s why I’d suggest to Enable the File Owner to also prevent Editor from Copy/Duplicate File, and export or save File as.fig. Not just to Viewer.

I’ve been a Pro Account user for some time and feel that this is crucial for us to always keep our File save no matter what.

Thank you for having me in this platform and let’s discuss together 😊

Completely agree! Allowing this feature to be built in will especially be useful in scenarios where someone hires an expert Figma freelancer to help build out their IP/vision/concept.

There should also be a feature to prevent the editors and viewers to share the file further.

Currently editors are allowed to add more editors and viewers and at the pro account level we have an admin who is looking into access management. So this feature will be helpful.