Make Exported .PDF Files With Editable Text For Accessibility Purposes

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Please!! Why did you remove this feature. It was one of the best things in Figma!

Any updates on this feature please??

It would be great to be able to export readable PDF straight from Figma, rather having to get extra subscription from Adobe.

any updates???

This issue still remains. Text on PDFs exported through Figma should be selectable and remain as text, not image.

Hey Figma team!

+100 to this prob. In addition to accessibility issues, it prevents the pdf to be “searchable”.

I recently built a big yearly UX health report with a colleague that we sent to our whole org (we used Figma, then exported into pdf), and an important stakeholder complained about the pdf not being “searchable” like all other pdf docs..

Any update on this team?

Thanks in advance for considering this, cheers!

Spent hours on crafting a resume with Figma which is my main design tool, only to realize it won’t pass an automated scan because it has no text. Pleeeease make this happen...

Yes please!

I found out that when opening the PDF in the adobe pdf reader app the text is images when copied, however, when I open the PDF in my browser the text is copied as text, and it is searchable.

Every couple of months I come back to these requests… An even bigger oversight is Figma slides. Exporting slides as editable PDFs is so common in that space. A couple people designing their resumes in Figma are also in for a rude surprise that HR bots will trash their resumes immediately. 

I can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet 😅 It should have been standard for years.

Luckily there are a bunch of plugins out there that do this. Still strange to pay extra for such a basic feature.