Graphics Chris

I would just like to import a PDF into Affinity Photo and have it create one large raster image out of the whole thing - that's it, nothing else.  Photoshop does it without complaint.  I also notice that when importing a PDF, if you have drop shadows, this creates little lines around shadow objects (similar to atomic regions) - this is 100% of the time when importing PDFs into Photo with drop shadows - this makes Photo virtually useless if you want to import a PDF.  Unless you want to do a lot of work fixing it.
Everyone keeps talking about other options, using other software or changing RIPing software.   I didn't come here to find alternatives, because currently Adobe does it all for me - but if I want to leave Adobe and use Affinity, then I want and must have Affinity to do what Adobe does.  Simple - import PDF as is and convert it into a raster image.
The trouble with Affinity Photo is that is is trying to behave like Publisher when importing PDFs, to make them editable - but that's why I have publisher - if I want to edit a PDF, I use Publisher and not Photo.  But if I want to convert a PDF into a raster image, I would think Photo should do the job, but it doesn't.
So if anyone knows a way to import a PDF and have it look exactly like the pdf - great, let me know how it is done (forget about editing the PDF, I don't want to edit, just convert to a raster image).  If not, where can I post this info for the Affinity team to investigate to allow Photo to do exactly just importing and not making any adjustments to the imported file?

I have a similar problem with Publisher 1.10.x versions.  After installing 1.10.x versions the software opens for about 20 seconds and then crashes.  You can open files and manipulate content, etc all within this time, but it will crash no matter what you are doing.  I uninstall latest version and went back to 1.9.x versions and crashing stopped.
I then went back and installed the latest 1.10.x version again and crashing started again.
I am running Windows 7 64bit with 32GB RAM and graphics card Nvidia Quadro P400.

It's all good.  I contacted AFFINITY help via an email and got it sorted in less than 2 hours.

Hi Pauls,
 
Is the attached file the file you are after?ff1b16b9-b426-42f2-9aec-5ac60a507c31.dmp

For my work, I produce large stickers/car vinyls that need the artwork broken up onto separate panels.  I rely on artwork to go across multiples Artboards, so I can export the artboards out as different panels at the correct size I need.  Designer does not allow graphics to overlap onto multiple artboards.  So therefore, I have to stick with Illustrator for the time being.