Export with custom settings

Change a setting when your printer asks for something a preset doesn't cover. On the New subtab of the Export tab, click + next to a section to turn it on, and − to turn it off. To export with a ready-made setup instead, see Export with a preset.

Exporting requires Print for Figma Pro. When your settings are ready, click Export.

Set file options

Choose the page order

Open Order Pages to choose the page order in a single PDF. Pages can follow their page number or name, or their position on the canvas:

• By Page Number / Name (default) sorts by layer name, so "Page 2" comes before "Page 10".
• Left to Right (Horizontal) follows the frames' positions on the canvas, left to right.
• Top to Bottom (Vertical) follows the frames' positions on the canvas, top to bottom.

Export one PDF or separate PDFs

Use Export As to choose the files you download.

• Single PDF (default) combines all pages into one PDF.
• Separate PDFs saves each page as its own PDF, named after its frame, and bundles them in a .zip file.

Convert colors

Figma designs are RGB. New to color modes? Read What are color modes? first. To convert in one click, use a print-ready preset.

Turn on color conversion

Click + next to Color Conversion to turn it on. Color Conversion starts on CMYK with the default ICC profile. Click − to turn it off and go back to RGB.

Choose a color space

Use Color Space to choose the colors in your exported PDF. Choose CMYK to see its extra options: ICC Profile and Custom Colors only appear for CMYK.

• CMYK (default) converts colors to CMYK with the ICC profile you choose. Most commercial printers ask for CMYK.
• RGB keeps Figma's RGB colors.
• Gray converts the PDF to grayscale.

Choose an ICC profile

Open the ICC Profile list and pick the profile your printer asks for. An ICC profile describes how a press, ink, and paper reproduce color, and it sets how your colors are converted.

If your printer doesn't name one, leave the default. It's FOGRA59, a general-purpose profile that loses very little color if your printer converts the file to their own.

All ICC profiles and their file names

Each profile in the list shows its file name in parentheses, so you can match the file your printer names.

Group	Profile	File name
North America	GRACoL 2013, for sheetfed printing	GRACoL2013_CRPC6.icc
North America	GRACoL 2013 Uncoated	GRACoL2013UNC_CRPC3.icc
North America	SWOP 2013C3	SWOP2013C3_CRPC5.icc
North America	SWOP 2013C5	SWOP2013C5.icc
North America	GRACoL 2006	GRACoL2006_Coated1v2.icc
North America	SWOP 2006 Grade #3	SWOP2006_Coated3v2.icc
North America	SWOP 2006 Grade #5	SWOP2006_Coated5v2.icc
North America	Generic CMYK	generic_cmyk.icc
Europe / International	FOGRA59	eciCMYK_v2.icc
Europe / International	PSO Coated v3 [FOGRA 51]	PSOcoated_v3.icc
Europe / International	PSO Uncoated v3 [FOGRA 52]	PSOuncoated_v3_FOGRA52.icc
Europe / International	PSO Uncoated [FOGRA47]	PSO_Uncoated_ISO12647_eci.icc
Europe / International	FOGRA47 300%	Uncoated_Fogra47L_VIGC_300.icc
Europe / International	FOGRA47 260%	Uncoated_Fogra47L_VIGC_260.icc
Europe / International	ISO Coated v2 300% [FOGRA39]	ISOcoated_v2_300_eci.icc
Europe / International	ISO Coated v2 [FOGRA39]	ISOcoated_v2_eci.icc
Europe / International	FOGRA39 300%	Coated_Fogra39L_VIGC_300.icc
Europe / International	FOGRA39 260%	Coated_Fogra39L_VIGC_260.icc
Europe / International	Coated FOGRA39	CoatedFOGRA39.icc
Japan	Japan Color 2011	JapanColor2011Coated.icc
Japan	Japan Color 2001 Coated	JapanColor2001Coated.icc
Japan	Japan Color 2001 Uncoated	JapanColor2001Uncoated.icc
Japan	Japan Color 2002 Newspaper	JapanColor2002Newspaper.icc
Japan	Japan Color 2003 Web Coated	JapanColor2003WebCoated.icc
Japan	Japan Web Coated (Ad)	JapanWebCoated.icc

Use custom colors

1. Click + next to Color Conversion.
2. Open Custom Colors.
3. Choose a collection.

Color conversion converts your colors with an ICC profile. Custom colors let you choose the exact CMYK values for specific colors, such as a logo color your printer has matched before. They only apply to CMYK exports.

If you haven't made a collection yet, click Add Custom Colors to create one.

To create and edit collections, see Use custom CMYK colors.

Make a PDF/X file

Ask your printer which PDF standard they need before you export.

Turn on conformance

Click + next to Conformance to turn it on. Conformance starts on PDF/X-4 with Trim Boxes enabled, so your export is a PDF/X file. Click − to turn it off.

• Standard sets the PDF standard of your export. PDF/X-4 is an ISO standard PDF format made for print. None doesn't apply a standard.
• Trim Boxes marks the finished size of each page inside the PDF. It matters when your frame includes bleed or crop marks, so the page is bigger than the cut size. PDF/X-4 always includes trim boxes.

Mark the trim area with a slice

1. In Figma, choose the Slice tool, then drag a slice inside your frame that covers the trim area, the part that's left after cutting. Figma's export article covers slices.
2. Name the slice Trimbox.

Select the frame again, and the plugin uses the slice as the trim box. Pages made by Print for Figma already include a locked Trimbox slice, so you only need to draw one for frames the plugin didn't create.

A note under Trim Boxes tells you whether the plugin found a slice on your selected pages. With no slice, the trim box matches the page size.

If the plugin doesn't find your slice

Name the slice Trimbox. Keep the slice inside the frame, and don't rotate the frame or the slice.

Crop to the trim box

Click Enabled under Crop to Trim Box to crop the PDF to just the final print area. Cropping is mainly for previewing the file, or for opening it in Illustrator.

Turn on Illustrator Compatibility

Click Enabled under Illustrator Compatibility to prepare the file for editing in Adobe Illustrator. Files are still exported as PDF.

Reduce image resolution

A large photo placed small in your design carries far more pixels than the print needs. Downsampling reduces those images so the PDF is lighter to upload and email.

Turn on downsampling

Click + next to Downsampling to turn it on. Click − to turn it off, and images keep their full resolution.

Maximum DPI is the highest image resolution allowed in the PDF. Images above it are downsampled. It starts at 300, the usual target for print. Lower values suit on-screen PDFs, where file size matters more than detail.

Downsampling only lowers resolution. It can't add detail to an image that's too small for print. Check your images with DPI before you export, and replace any that are too small for print. Preflight also flags images above 600 DPI, which add file size without a visible quality improvement.

To keep a setup you use often, see Save a custom export preset.