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romuald
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November 4, 2025
Question

Resumé exported in PDF shows wrongly formatted texts

  • November 4, 2025
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Hi there.
I create a new thread because this one is closed: 


Like many, I do my resumé with Figma. And I’ve seen that the text exported PDFs have undesirable spaces inside the words.

Example:


Copy/paste this text and you get:

“with 2 0 + years of e xperience”, which is wrong!!

 

Of course, the MKitFPDF plug-in solves some problems but brings some others, without to say it’s not free.

Did someone got a real fix for this?

    4 replies

    romuald
    romualdAuthor
    New Participant
    November 5, 2025

    Some news. I thought the problem was from Figma Beta, or because some texts are generated with AI. 

    So I started a blank new Figma design file, and pasted a lorem ipsum text, then exported to PDF.

    And no problem.

     

    So, the issue is my resumé file. And I don’t know at all how to fix this.

    Any idea?

     

     

    Aleksandra Danilova
    Aleksandra Danilova
    New Member
    January 26, 2026

    I have the same problem, when I try to copy text with digits from the PDF made in figma, then the numbers have extra space.

    Cecilia_Marnero
    Cecilia_Marnero
    New Participant
    April 3, 2026

    I’m having the opposite problem some sentences even though they all have the same styles, are all together with no spaces whatsoever. this was my cv which makes me notice an ATS wouldn’t be able to read it either. such a letdown i wish i had know this before i designed in figma. 

    Wonseok Jang
    Wonseok Jang
    New Member
    August 26, 2026

    I ran into a very similar issue while exporting my own documents from Figma.

    I’m a developer, so I ended up looking into the generated PDF itself. One of the main problems was that Figma converts text into vector outlines rather than embedding the actual fonts. That can make even simple, text-heavy PDFs surprisingly large, and the text is no longer really text in the resulting PDF.

    I tried a few existing plugins, but most of the options I found were paid, subscription-based, or had limitations that didn’t quite work for what I needed.

    So I ended up building my own plugin.

    Featherweight embeds and subsets real fonts where possible, which keeps the resulting text selectable and searchable, and it also compresses images to reduce the overall file size.

    It’s completely free and open source. No signup or subscription.

    If you’re still running into this problem, feel free to give it a try:

    Featherweight – Compressed PDF Export with Real Fonts
    https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1672509720278498323/featherweight-compressed-pdf-export-with-real-fonts

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