Make Exported .PDF Files With Editable Text For Accessibility Purposes

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Currently exported .PDFs out of Figma are not accessible, because the text is flattened as images.

I would like to request an option for exported .PDFs to have editable text.

This would be a game changer for our team to move off of Sketch! 😃 (Sketch allows for .PDFs to export with editable text, but Figma does not)

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Erica_Stivison

Really needing this feature for accessibility readers.

MKitPlug

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Hi,
I have exported your portfolio with our plugin MKitFPdf and it has worked so far.
However, I can’t find the font you used anywhere
“Figtree Light” as Black,Bold,Light,…, there is only “Figtree”, is this a private font?

Alyssa_Maac1

I am not OP but figtree font family is available here Figtree - Google Fonts

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Paramita

We need this feature!!

barsha1

We need this feature!!

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Renee5

+1 for unflattened PDFs. 🥲

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Zee1

+1 agree! Please enable editable text for exports. It would be a game changer.

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Larry_Moyo

Had this problem recently. The long way around it is to export each page as .svg then import them into Adobe Illustrator and then only save out the .pdf

I had multiple pages across 10 pdfs but I made it 🙂