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Andrew_Croce
Andrew_Croce
March 10, 2021

Links between pages in PDF export

  • March 10, 2021
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I need to create internal linking PDF exports; a multipage document with a table of contents that provides links to the relevant pages.

If I use the link tool, the links generated in the exported PDF go to the web URL of the linked frames, and does not navigate to the page within the PDF. Using prototype linking does not generate any interactivity in the PDF at all.

It would be useful for either the prototyping tool or link tool to generate interactive internally-linked PDF exports.

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    ealbinu
    ealbinu
    New Member
    January 22, 2025

     I found the solution on another question from the forum!

    FeatPaper converts prototype links to PDF navigation.

    I tried with a simple pdf. I believe more complex files will require to buy the plan ($3.9 monthly unlimited or $7.9 for 30 exports)

      Areeb_Aliku
      Areeb_Aliku
      New Member
      March 6, 2025

       I found the solution on another question from the forum!

      FeatPaper converts prototype links to PDF navigation.

      I tried with a simple pdf. I believe more complex files will require to buy the plan ($3.9 monthly unlimited or $7.9 for 30 exports)

      FeatPaper seems to work perfectly fine,

      Just make sure you prototype EACH textbox (In this instance from the content page) to the respective corresponding frame/page.

      I tried it atleast twice or thrice with the same FeatPaper account for free with a 23 frame/page exported pdf document from figma.

      Inconvenient but works like magic, funny how this is a 3 years old thread lol.

      zarah.sergison
      zarah.sergison
      New Member
      August 18, 2025

      Help! We need pages to link in a pdf (toc, navigations)!! I will dump Indesign in a heartbeat but I can’t because of this and printing purposes.

      If the “Pitch deck” can do it, please make a PDF functional as well!

        HosseinShah.me
        HosseinShah.me
        New Member
        June 19, 2026

        This plug-in works well: 
        https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1646499172994203579/slideslink

        It’s free.

        When you export a PDF file with this plugin, internal links are automatically replaced and fixed, and it works well. 😎

        We can also add links (internal and external) to any element.

        nataliyanovikova915
        nataliyanovikova915
        New Member
        June 20, 2026

        Yeah, this is a real limitation of most export pipelines.

        What’s happening is your links are being treated as external URLs, so the PDF viewer opens the web page instead of jumping within the document. And prototype links usually don’t survive export at all, so they lose interactivity.

        What you actually need is true PDF internal anchors (named destinations + page links), not web links. If the tool doesn’t support that on export, there’s no workaround inside it—you’d have to either:

        • generate the PDF through something that supports internal linking (like InDesign, LaTeX, or report generators that handle TOC anchors properly), or

        • post-process the PDF and inject internal links afterward.

        So it’s not you doing it wrong — it’s just the export system not mapping frame links → PDF anchors properly yet.

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