Figma slides - internal links between slides shouldn't become external links when exporting to PDF

Hello,

I tried Figma slides to re-create my portfolio, which I had already created in Figma, because I was attracted by the possibility to quickly reorder the slides. However, I noticed a problem: while I can create internal links in Figma slides which allow me to jump from a slide to another, when I export said slides as a PDF, the internal links are substituted with external links which jump back to the Figma website when clicked, instead of allowing you to navigate through the PDF inside your own pdf viewer.

This is a problem for various reasons:

  • you can’t easily navigate around the .pdf offline, since each time you click the supposedly internal links you instead get redirected to a web page;
  • the offline .pdf and the online version can be out of sync. Meaning that the offline versions, which may be several and have different slide orders or different elements (it’s common practice to slightly tweak a portfolio when you send it to different clients) will all point to the same figmaslides web version due to those pseudo-internal links.

The best solution would be to make it so that internal links in Figma slides, when exported to .PDF, remain internal links between slides also inside the PDF (and thus accessibile by any pdf viewer, online and offline) instead of pointing again to the Figma slides web version.

Hope this feedback reaches its intended target

Thanks,

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Hey @Sebastian_Irimescu, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto the Slides team for future consideration.

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I support and would like to add that I would like to put links not only to text, but also to objects/group of objects. This is very necessary for interactive presentations, where the menu is present on every page for easy navigation through the presentation, if it has a large volume.