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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Jaroslaw_Olszewski

What with that text in PDF Figma team! Forced entire industry to use your software and now what? You have time to do weird stuff with Figma UI (that no one ask BTW), but can’t do this important for many ppl thing?

Dmytro_Korolkov

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As I understand you need to export SVG first with outline text option disabled, and then try ещ edit that SVG (with a lot of design gone). Quite complicated flow.

DevDevelops

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Hi! I recently developed a Figma plugin, TrueText PDF, that enables exporting PDFs with selectable text instead of flattened text.
I’d really appreciate it if you could give it a try and share your feedback.
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1608786203490497687/truetext-pdf