Make Exported .PDF Files With Editable Text For Accessibility Purposes

+1 🙏🏾 maybe we can see this in the following thursdays? 😅

Please Figma Please

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1292429194004873271/resume-template

Just created this resume template and wanted to export, but it did not work 😭

I hope this helps. But we need this feature please!

Great idea!

Extremely important feature - should actually be a standard feature.

Really needing this feature for accessibility readers.

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?

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

We need this feature!!

We need this feature!!

+1 for unflattened PDFs. 🥲

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

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 🙂

Just make sure to uncheck “Outline Text”

At least text is preserved with this workaround. Thanks for sharing!

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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...