I had to redesign the entire thing in InDesign where I could then save it out as an interactive PDF. If you have many assets or images, the pdf Figma exports is excessively large.įor example, I exported a two page style guide the other day and it came out to 24MB!!! Even if I downsized the images, the images which were in a clip mask was saved out as a raster image, which is not ideal because PDF should ideally contain vectors. I know PDF is an Adobe format, but there is something about the way Figma exports pdfs that blows out file sizes excessively.ĭesigners commonly mock up print files such as resumes and brand guides in Figma, but sometimes people may want to export these files out to pdf to send to people by email.

I would like to see a better implementation of Figma’s export to PDF feature. I’m not aware of any community plugin that solves this. Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?, etc. Or just the quality is retained as close as possible to the Figma quality.Īsk questions to bring the community into the conversation

PDFs exported when they contain some kind of image seem to be quite large, maybe because the whole image is intact and it isn’t cropped down.

In addition to PDF compression, sometimes merging multiple files into a single document is something that I wish Figma gave some options for when exporting.Īdd as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.) When I export out PDFs and attach them to emails for review for stakeholders who either are not in Figma or just prefer to review and leave notes via PDF mockups, I always have to find a PDF compression solution that can shrink down the sizes. Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this

How to get pdf file size down